THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H.LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 

 Editor and Publisher. 



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DfTCREO *T THE POST = nrp AT ALBION, N. y., AS SECON0.CLA9S MATTER. 



R. J. B., of Miuneapolis, writes of 

 taking "rtll)ino" eggs of Clifl" Swallows. 

 They can more appropriately be term- 

 ed ''al)uormal" and are not uncommon. 



E. E. H., of Cleveland, ().. writes: 

 "In the Slimmer of 1889 I spent a few 

 months in Vermont and ha. I a very ])e- 

 culiar find. I was setting l)y a small 

 creek reailing and was startled i)y a 

 bird Hying up right by the side of me 

 and looking in tlie hole in the ground I 

 spied a nest containing four eggs exact- 

 ly like the Wood Thrush in color but 

 not quite so large. I am sorry I could 

 not see the bird but m} eggs are still 

 uaidentilie<l." 



W. L. B.,of Bay City, Mich., sends 

 an interesting account of a <la3' with the 

 Hawks and Cro vs. but as almost every 

 reader of the Oologist has bad a like 

 exjjerience, the lack of space forbids 

 our printing it. 



In a letter of recent date our friend, 

 Rev. J. H. Langille.says, "The Smith- 

 sonian Institution has lately ]jurchas- 

 ed, ready mounted, twelve magnilieent 

 species of Biixls of Paradise, from New 

 Guinea. They are a show in them- 

 selves.'' 



G. N., West Quincy, Mass., writes 

 that Flickers, Chewinks, Song Spar- 

 rows and Robins have been quite com- 

 mon with them this winter, also that 

 43 eggs of Passe7' ilomcsticns were taken 

 from a single <'lectric lamp in that 

 town last season. 



H. B. A., Manchestei-, la., writes that 

 large numbers of American Crossbills 

 have been feeding on sunflower seeds 

 in his garden this winter. 



It gives us pleasure to announce that 

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 whereby each issue of theOoLOGi.ST for 

 the year will contain a full page frontis 

 piece, engraved expressly for that pur- 

 pose; also that small illustrations will 

 be nuxde to illustrate any MSS. requir- 

 ing the same, providing the drawings 

 accompanj' the article and we deem 

 them worthy or of sulticienl imj)ortance 

 to admit the additional expense. 



The following taken from the Man- 

 chester, N, H. L'nion records habits of 

 a very common bird, entirely new to 

 the ornithological world. Had this 

 egotistical writer consulted some wide- 

 awake ten-year-old boy he might have 

 been saved the ])ain of having his ex- 

 treme ignoranc(; exposed in making 

 such an almost unpardonable blunder- 

 ing .statement: 



D "Are you sureV A writer on animal 

 oddities says: 



'The British Cuckoo and tin; Ameri- 

 can Cow Blackbird never build nests of 

 their own, but content themselves with 



