THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



AMoNTHLY Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY and OOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



NEIL F. POSSON, MEDINA, N. Y. 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 



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 student of'Blrds. their Nests and Kggs, solicited 

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Jottings. 



"I hear from many a little throat 



•A warble, interrupted long; 

 1 hear the Robin's tiute-like note. 



The Bluebird's slendei'er song." 

 "Brown meadows and the ru.sset hill, 



Not yet the haunt of grazing herds, 

 And tliiekets by the glimmering rill, 



Are all alive with birds." 



We aie in receipt of a tine i)ortrait 

 drawing in natural eolors of the Coop- 

 er's Hawk from the hand of Robinson 

 Walters, Baltimore, Md. The draw- 

 ing speaks well for Mr. Watters as well 

 as for Accipiter cooperi himself. 



We learn fiom Prof. B. W. Evermau, 

 Terre Haute, Ind., that the ornitholo- 

 gists of the Mississip])i Valley are ar- 

 ranging to have a meeting of American 

 Oi-nithologists at the meeting of the 

 American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science at Indianapolis next 

 August. He assures us that enough 

 replies have already l)een received to 

 insure a profitable meeting. Surely 

 the advantage of such a meeting Avhere 

 ornithologists can get together and 

 l)ecome acquainted, is great, aside from 

 the profit and benefit that will be 

 derived from the papers and discuss- 

 ions given. All, who possibly can, 

 should embrace this opportunity. 



Our contributors should not become- 

 di.scouraged if tiieir articles do not 

 a])pear at once and sometimes not at 

 all. If they could see the piles of man- 

 uscript that comes before us monthly, 

 from which we are to select a few of 

 the most interesting articles and such 

 as are of the most value to the greatest 

 number, they would think it nothing" 

 strange that their articles are some- 

 times overlooked. Remember we 

 want articles on the rarer birds and on 

 novel and unusual occurrences, and 

 then — "If at first you don't succeed, 

 try, try again." We mean to treat all 



fairly. 



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We havt' (ju hand several county 

 lists of .birds Avhich have been sent us, 

 and we only regi'et that want of space 

 prevents us from publishing. Such 

 lists, while they are of gi'eat local 

 value, are not of general interest to 

 readers all over the tounti-j, and so we 

 are obliged to omit tiiem. 



Our Question Box. 

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 be written on a postal or slip of paper— never mix 

 tliem in your letter when writing about oth;r 

 matters. 



H. A. H., I]dinl)urg, Ind. — It is a 

 common occurrence for the Crow to 

 assail Hawks and Owls. It seems to be 

 the Crow's delight to torment the.se 

 larger birds. 



