The Oologist. 



Vol. XXV. No. 2. 



Albion, N. Y. Feb., 1908. 



Whole No. 247 



THE OOLOGIST, 



A Monthly Publication DeToted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 

 DEEMY. 



FKAKS X. LATTIN, PublUker, 



ALBIOV, K. T. 



KUrZST H. 8K0XT. Editor ud ]Un«cw. 



Oomspondence and items of intereat to tbe 

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THE BIRDS OF PREY AND THE 

 COLLECTORS. 



Recently the Oologist has adopted 

 the new policy of accepting no more 

 advertisements of eggs or skins of 

 North American birds to be bought or 



sold for cash, except of game 'birds 

 and birds of prey. This was a wise 

 step. 



Let me say right here that I neither 

 have the desire to unwarrantably in- 

 terfere with the management of the 

 Oologist in the conduct of its own 

 business, nor do I write as an ex- 

 tremist in the matter of bird protec- 

 tion, for I am a collector myself. 



The game birds are pretty thorough 

 ly and carefully protected throughout 

 all parts of the United States and 

 Canada, not only by law, but by pub- 

 lic sentiment, and when by diminu- 

 tion in numbers they seem to need 

 fuller protection, they will undoubted- 

 ly receive it; as for instance, in New 

 Hampshire and Massachusetts the 

 Wood Duck and the Upland Plover 

 are now protected for a term of 

 years with no open season. 



The birds of prey, on the contrary, 

 have few friends. The hand of ev- 

 ery hunter and farmer, with a pitiful- 

 ly small percentage o fexception, is 

 against them. In some states cer- 

 tain species are pi-otected by law, 

 but to the average man, a hawk is a 

 hawk, and if he can kill it, he will do 

 so with satisfaction. Public senti- 

 ment is yet, as a whole, far from fav- 

 orable to the protection of any birds 

 of prey. 



To collectors of eggs and skins in 

 the aggregate, there is proba'bly no 

 other order of birds so attractive as 

 that of the birds of prey. If this is 

 so, and I believe it is, collectors 

 ought to enlist themselves individu- 

 ally and as a class on the side of 

 those birds which mean so much to 



