THE OOLOaiST. 



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THEOOLOGIST 



AMoNTHLY Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY and OOLOGY. 



FRANK H. L.ATTIN, ALBION, N.Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



NEIL F. POSSON, MEDINA, N. Y. 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 



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Eciitorial Notes. 



A large iiii.stake was made in the 

 Idinting of Mi". ^leiritt'.s article on the 

 .'^aw-whet Owl in tlie June nnnibi-r. 



\)y this ciTor, the compositor put a 

 tail eight iiu his in length on the Saw 

 wliet Owl -when ir siionld have been but 

 f/i}-ec. With an eight inch tail on an 

 Owl only seven anil one-half inehe.s in 

 length, thf artii-le appeared .something 

 like a i-ather "ti.sh.y" tale. We hasten 

 to mention this eri'or in detail a.s soon 

 as we "saw if before any of the more 

 seieittitie ornithologists should begin to 

 '•I'.owi" abdiit some new ViU-icty of 

 Kyrtale nradica. (S]jrt:\le ai'adiia Joug- 

 i anda, perhaps.) 



If those who send us (jueries could 

 only use a little more pains, sometimes, 

 in their <lescrii)tions, it would be much 

 easier for us, and at the .same time they 

 would be moie apt to receive satisfac- 

 tory replies. For instance, we received 

 one quei-y which asked us to name a 

 bii-d that had a red body and black 

 wings and bill, and <lid not tell us a 

 word as to si/e, whether it were as 

 large as an Eagle or as small as a Hum- 

 mer. Again, someone wanted to 

 know V. liat iiird it was that laid an egg 

 like a Field Si)arrow',s only larger, the 

 nest ])eing like a (Jrass Finch's. 



A little ])ains would give us better 

 descri])tions and Ijettei- resuks, tinil 

 make the (|uerv column more of a suc- 

 cess. 



On tile other hand, man}' of the quer- 

 ies I'eceived are marked Ijy their con- 

 ciseness of description, and it is pleas- 

 ant to answer them. 



"What They Say." 



]j. Eber, Fair\ icw, Mo., writes of a 

 '"crippled" egg" of the Kiiigbiid in his 

 possession. 



The egg measures 1 5-16 x 6-Hi i;i. 



The shape is very ])eculiar. it having 

 in the middle, a kind of gic^ove all 

 urotind it. One eml is much larger 

 than the other, forming a kind of 

 "step-otf" in the middle instea.d of 

 graduall}' growing smaller at the end. 

 The other eggs in the nest wen^ shajx'd 

 norm ail V. 



W. Al. l>erman, Los Angeles, Oal., 

 says : 



''During the later ])art of Aj)ril and 

 the first part of May, I found in the 

 same hole in a .sycamore tree, four sets 

 and one single egg of the Westei'n 

 House Wren. AM the eggs Avei'c 

 spotted alike. 



I iiad to take the nest out to get tlu- 

 eggs, so they had to build a new nest 

 for each set." 



W. I. C. Norwalk, Conn., writes: 

 "May i'th. I found a Pho'be's nest, 

 attached to the side of a ledge, contain- 

 ing five Cow Birds' eggs, but not one 



