THE OOLUGIST. 



95 



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 tne 

 student of Birds, tlaeir Nests and Eggs, solicited 

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If you have not learned 'What Has 

 Become of the Bluebird" you should 

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 News. 



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The Nidiologist for April and May 

 are by far the best numbers issued to 

 date — we are inclined to give the April 

 issue the "bakery," however — although 

 the May issue is of special interest to 

 oologists. All friends of the "Nid." will 

 be delighted to learn that Bro. Taylor 

 has secured Dr. R. W. Shufeldt as an 

 associate. In announcing this truly 

 great aC(iuisition, by the way of a col- 

 laborator, the Ed. of the '•^lid." aptly 

 i-emarks: 



It would be an impertinence to for- 

 mally introduce Dr. Shufeldt to our 

 subscribers, for as one of the founders 

 of the American Ornithologists' Union, 

 and in years of active scientific investi- 

 gation in Ornithology, as well as in 

 many other fields, his name and works 

 are known and felt not alone in Amer- 

 ica, but the world over 



— To which we might add the fact 

 that Dr. Siuifeldt is also one of the fore- 

 most writers on matters relating to Or- 

 nithology from a popular-scientific 

 standpoint of the daj, and in this man- 

 ner is unquestionably doing as much, 

 if not more, to popularize Ornithology 

 than any other living American Orni- 

 thologist. 



