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THE OOi.OGIS r 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher. 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondence and Items of interest to me 

 student of Birds, their Nests and Kgsjs, solicited 

 from all. 



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■MTERED »T THE POST OFFICE AT ALSION 



r., A3 SECONO-CL*SS M^TTEf- 



You Are a Judge- 



Your decision must be mailed us not 

 later than the Icnt/i day of Apiil. 

 Write on back of a po.stal card the live 

 articles which yn?/ have deciiled to be 

 the mof<l valualilr. instructive (tnd iibtcr- 

 Cftiriff in this imnil)i3r of OiiLOGi.ST and 

 mail to us. Nunilx^r the articles in the 

 order which you think the prizes should 

 be awarded. 



During IHflf) the Judges prize will he 

 awarded as follows viz: Eich niinith 

 it will consist (if sff) in specimens or 

 $4 oO in instrumt'iits, supplies or i)ubli- 

 cationsor $3 cash. This prize will be 

 awarded to tln^ Judge who names the 

 winning articles und in their exoct or- 

 der. In case mnic than one Judge 

 names them correctly this prize will be 

 .equally divided among the number. 



PEBRUARr CONTEST. 

 Ninety -six Judges. 



1. Destruction of Birds. '341. 



2. A Few Notes from Shoal I^ake. 

 Manitoba. 2iU. 



3. Wise and Otheisvvise. 2."d. 



4. Notes on the IJhic-headed Vireo 

 in Massachusetts, '210 



fi. Rails in Ca,pliviiy, 14i). 



This ha'; I'ccn ihn "evenest"" contest 

 siiici' wc have been awarding our writ- 

 ers in this manner. The valued article, 

 "Old and rnusnal Nesting Sites" se- 

 cured 145 credits ami it was only until 

 the final "counting np" that one could 

 have "guessed" the result with any de- 

 gree of certainty. Although the Judges 

 in this coolest numbered more, with a 

 single exception, than any previous one, 

 none of them, however, named the win- 

 ning aiticics in their eo:act order — hence 

 the Judges prize remains unawarded. 



Prizes were mai'ed the winners on 

 March llth. 



Kent Oriiitholog:eal Clul>. 



On December Vi. 1894 at Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich., a society named the Kent 

 Ornithological Club was formed. It 

 ha<l a charter membership of fourteen. 

 The following ollicers were elected: 

 President, W. H, Stewart; Vice-presi- 

 dent, R. G. Fitch; Secretary and Treas- 

 urer, W. E. Mnlliken; Corresponding 

 Secretary, C'has B. Corbin; Librarian, 

 R. R. Newton; Executive Commiltee, 

 R. G. Fitch, chairman. A. VV. Hanaford 

 and A. B. Durfee. 



The object of the society is the pron:io- 

 tion of the scieutilic study of Ornithol- 

 ogy and Oology in all their Ijranches. 

 The society would like correspondence 

 wnth like bodies and individu;ils for 

 that i)urpose. All communications 

 should be addressed to the Kent Orni- 

 thological Club, No. 55 i\. Union St., 

 Grand Rapids, iSlich. 



