THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Pubiisher, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondence and Items ot Interest to the 

 student oC Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited 

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Yellow-throated Vireo. 



Friend Lattin: 



As gooci a journal as is your Oolo- 

 gist, it has, nevertheless, its defects. 



I supposed that there was no North 

 Ainerieau bird that had not at some 

 lime or other been written about in the 

 columns of ihe Oologist, but 1 was 

 very much surprised last night to find 

 that from Vol. I, No. 1 of the Young 

 Oologist down to date, it has never con- 

 tained an article on the Yellow-throat- 

 ed Vireo. Now why is this? Isn't there 

 anyone who knows enough about this 

 pretty bird to write an article about it 

 for the Oologist? I wish you would 

 please have this matter attended to, 

 and for my own especial benefit, have 

 someone write such an article. I want 

 to know more about this bird. 



Before closing I will tell you about 

 tlie queer and unusual nesting-site of a 

 pair of these birds. I took a nest con- 

 taining four eggs and one of the Cow- 

 bird on Thursday last. The nest was 

 in a small elm, which happened to be 

 .growing right in the midst of our foun- 

 dry plant, with the noisy turmoil of 

 machinery and workingmen on every 

 hand. Close on one side of the nest is 

 a wagon -road, over which heavy team- 

 ing of coke and iron is almost constant- 

 ly being done, while on the other side, 

 and within a few feet is the pipe store- 

 house where cast-ii'on pipe is being 

 blacked and piled all day with consid- 

 erable noise, and where workingnaen 

 are continually passing to and fro right 

 near the nest. Yours quite materially, 

 Neil F. Posson, 

 Medina, N. Y., June 9, '96. 



P. S. Saw a Yellow- breasted Chat 

 Memorial Day. 



Notes on the Yellow-billed Mag-pie. 



The Yellow-billed Magpie is a com- 

 mon bird throughout California, and is 

 resident whei'ever found, never migrat- 

 ing to any extent, a'though in winter a 

 few will straggle a few miles from the 

 plains into the foothills, but never for 

 any length of time. They frequent the 

 level plains and valleys of California, 



