THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist. 



A Moatlily Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



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Our old frieudPosson has the nerve to 

 offer the readers of the Oologist a little 

 ''spring poetry" this month, but in a 

 letter to the Editor apologizes, thusly: 

 "One day last spring at the United 

 States Hotel in Boston, I ordered Plover 

 for my Sunday dinner. The bird was 

 brought in nicely roasted — entire. Its 

 head bent back, its bill reposing on its 

 breast. I was not cannibal enough to 

 eat my best friends, the birds, and this 

 simple episode inspired me with a bit 

 of poetical wealiness, with the enclosed 

 result." 



N. L. Davis, of Brockport, N. Y., now 

 collecting in the Jackson Hole, Wyom- 

 ing district, in a recent letter says: "1 

 am having a grand good time and to- 

 day I took care of three (3) Grizzly Bear 

 hides, killed yesterday." 



P. H. Beck, of Berryessa, Cal., has 

 gone to the Gallopagus Island's to be 

 gone from six to nine months. He has 

 gone on a scientific expedition, sent 

 out by eastern parties. It is expected 

 that the expedition will result in a 

 thorough study of the flora and fauna of 

 the South Sea islands if all is well. 

 They sailed from San Francisco, June 

 21st, on the schooner, Lila and Mattie, 

 a vessel chartered for the occasion. 



Nesting" of the Road-runner in Lam- 

 pasas County, Texas. 



Notwithstanding the fact, that I made 

 my acquaintance with the Geococcyx 

 californiamis some years ago, I took my 

 first observations concerning its nesting 

 habits only three seasons ago. The 

 first nest of this Nancy Hanks defying 

 bird that I ever found was placed on a 

 horizontal branch of a small oak tree 

 about ten feet from the ground. It was 

 not placed in a fork, but simply con- 

 structed on the bare surface of the limb. 

 It contained two rotten eggs and four 

 young. 1 took two of the young and 

 succeeded in raising them to quite a 

 size, but after a time they both died; a 

 fact which I deeply deplored as I in- 

 tended to study their habits. In a wild 

 state they are exceedingly shy and it is 

 impossible to learn much about their 

 nature and idiosyncracies. They were 

 very tame and would run about the yard 

 like chickens. From observation I find 

 that the principal diet of the Road- 

 runner consists of snails with an oc- 

 casional small reptile. The soil of this 

 country being decidedly calcareous, 

 snails are abundant. During the sum- 

 mer months the different varieties of 



