THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY and OOLOGY. 



FRANK JI. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



NEIL F. PO&SON, MEDINA, N. Y. 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 



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Pencilings. 



In the April Oologist appeared an 

 article on the "Family Rallidae iii Min- 

 nesota" by Will de la Bane. 



As an addition to that family, Mr. La 

 Barre relates in this number, the ocenr- 

 renee of the King Kail near Minne- 

 apolis. The taking of a specimen of 

 this bird in Minnesota was also re- 

 corded by Mr. C'ook of Minneapolis in 

 the Jnne Oologist. These are rare 

 "takes." 



We often come acro.ss amnsing mis- 

 takes in a printer's proof. 



When the proof of the Ju]y nnmber 

 came before ns, we were soqiewhat 

 amnsed to find the Red-winged Black- 

 l)ird and Yellow-.shafted Flicker prising 

 in print respectively as the Red-mug 

 Blackbird and Yellow-shafted Tickler. 



Let all persons sending queries, write 

 their name on each, separate slip con- 

 taining a query. Failure to do this luis 

 been the cau,se of so many replies being 

 addressed to "Name mislaid." 



To our contributors: We are now 

 receiving at ycmr hands an excellent 

 cla.ss of manuscript. We speak of this 

 because it strikes us favoralsly and 

 because Ave desire a continuance of the 

 same. 



It is the constant aim of the Oolo- 

 gist to gradually improve its subject- 

 matter and to rai.se it to a higher scieu- 

 tilic standard. To this end, we urge 

 our contrilnitors (as indeed you have 

 been doing in the past) to write about 

 the rarer species and to take for sub- 

 jects those things which are not gener- 

 ally known. Succe.ss to you, one and 

 all. 



We have just received a little book 

 entitled "Recollections of General 

 Grant" by George W. Childs. We 

 haven't had time to look at it yet, but 

 it looks as though there was "some- 

 thing in it." We will mention it next 

 number. 



Just as we are going to press, a 

 "small boy" comes into the office of 

 "Ye Associate Editor" and displays an 

 egg whicli he found and gives a de- 

 scription of the bird and nest, and we 

 are convinced that it is the Chewinlc 



This is valuable in that this isarather 

 northerly breeding-place for this bird 

 and this is the first instance of its 

 breeding here. 



It is one of the rarest summer resi- 

 dents in this section. 



The "small boys" of Medina seem t« 

 have better finds generally than their 

 more experienced and scientific (V) pre- 

 decesscjis. 



We have received from E. S. Cheney, 

 artist, Titrodie, S. D., a number of pho- 

 tographs oi different ornithological 

 subjects, such as Short-eared Owl, nest 

 and eggs of Marsh Hawk, etc., etc., 

 which are wonderfully true to nature 

 and speak highly for the artist. We 

 haven't time to mention them further 

 at present, Init we promise our readers 

 an interesting article in next nnmber 

 concerning this latest achievement in 

 ornithology and some entertaining 

 things concerning what the camera can 



