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THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. L ATT IN, Editor and Publisher. 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondence and items of Interest to tne 

 Btudent of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited 

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Owing to various causes, unnecessaiy 

 to occupy space aud time in explaining 

 at length, the June Oologist has been 

 unavoidably delayed, and in order to 

 "catch up" we mail aud bind the June 

 and July issues together. August is- 

 sue will be out August 16th and "treats" 

 in the engraving line anticipated for 

 this issue will appear therein. 



Nests of Water Birds. 



With all birds, so far as I am able to 

 learn, the exit is a point of observation 

 for the sitter, from which it can get a 

 view of friends and foes. The Owls 

 and Hawks from an elevated position 

 can command a line view of the sur- 

 roundings. With all aquatic birds the 



sitter almost invariably occupies a po- 

 sition presenting toward the water. 

 Shore birds, as the Sandpipers, rest on 

 their nests in a position to best view the 

 stream or pond. Rails and Gallinules 

 face the water, the latter usually build- 

 ing so that they can plunge from their 

 homes directly into their favorite chan- 

 nels. 



The Loon, which builds or rather 

 forms its nest away out from shore in a 

 mass of A'egetable matter, usually the 

 foundation of an old muskrat's house, 

 invariably faces the open deep water. 

 From that position it can slide into the 

 lake at a second's notice. Any one can 

 prove this position of the Loon by ex- 

 amining the premises when the owner 

 is away. The nest proper is a trough- 

 like depression, evidently formed by 

 the bird's efforts at hollowing rather 

 than in building up the sides. This ob- 

 long depression is one and a half feet 

 long and over ten inches wide, and the 

 eggs are always placed from three-lifths 

 to two-thirds of the distance from the 

 front end. "S.", 



Pittsfield, Me. 



MAY CONTEST. 

 Forty-seven Judges- 



1. Owls and their Nests, 210. 



2. The Spotted Sandpiper, 166. 



3. Roderick Dhu, 121. 



4. The Mountain Partridge in Cap- 

 tivity, 109. 



5. Notes on Nidification and the 

 White-breasted Nuthatch, 72. 



The following Judges named the win- 

 ning articles in their exact order and 

 among them the Judges prize was 

 equally divided: 



Otto Grady, Ludlow, Ky. 



Dana C. Gillett, Barre Centre, N. Y. 



C. R. Stockard, Columbus, Miss. 



Hervey L. Sniith.Smith's Ferry,Mass. 



B. A. Garrett, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 



Frank E. Baxter, Montclair, N. J. 



Geo. S. (ireene, Los Angles, Cal. 



Albert L. Blanchard, No. Yarmouth, 

 Me. 



Hervey M.Hoskins, Newberg,Oregon. 



All prizes were mailed on July 10th. 



