The Oologist. 



Vol. XXV. No. 10. Albion, N. Y. October, 1908. Whole No.' 255 



THE OOLOGIST, 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 

 OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 

 DERMY. 

 FKAITK H. LATXIN, FnbUaher, 

 ALBIOir, K. Y. 

 EaNEST H. SHOST. Editor and Kanager. 

 Correspondence and items of interest to the 

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ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager, 

 Chill, Monroe Co., N. Y. 



WE NOTE. 



The Co-operative Ornithology plan 

 advocated by Rockwell of Denver, 

 Colo., in current issue of "The Con- 

 dor" would be great if individual orni- 

 thologists all over the country were 

 uniformly unselfish enough to freely 



volunteer the results of their observa- 

 tion and study for that purpose and 

 incidentally it would certainly boom 

 "The Condor." 



A Brown Thrasher was well seen 

 by the Editor at Chili Center, Monroe 

 Co., N. Y., on the morning of Sept. 

 28th last. Our second individual rec- 

 ord for Western New York in 22 

 years. 



A copy of the last Report of New 

 Jersey State Museum comes to hand 

 completely covering the Mammals of 

 New Jersey and a supplementary re- 

 port on the Fishes, etc. Well gotten 

 up and illustrated by many fine plates, 

 it forms an appropriate and valuable 

 addition to the reports for 1905 and 

 1906. 



So far as we can judge, that the 

 clause in New York's new game law, 

 establishing an open season for 

 Pheasant shooting is working out as 

 we feared it would. There are not 

 game protectors enough to prevent 

 unscrupulous hunters from bagging 

 both cocks and hens far in excess of 

 the legal limit. 



William Savage. 



We reprint below some extracts 

 from an article on the work of Wm. 

 Savage, the Iowa "Recluse Ornitholo- 

 gist," taken from the "Des Moines 

 Register," soon after his death last 

 July. Of his family our older read- 

 ers remember David L. Savage as 

 iniblisher of the defunct "Iowa Orni- 

 thologist." 



A native of England, Mr. Savage 

 came to New York at the age of 15, 



