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THE OOLOGISr. 



THE YOUNG OOLOQIST. 



VOLUME I. Nos. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. and l'-' each con- 

 tain 16 pages. Nos. 6. 7. 8, 9. and 10 each coutain- 



20 pages. No. 1 1 contains 36 pages. 



No. 1,— Instiiictions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, 

 (3 pages) : Coues' Kev, Tn-enty-tour short ar- 

 ticles. May. 18JU. 



No. a.— Instructions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, 

 concluded. CJ pages) ; Painted Buntings ; Cala. 

 Mottled Owl; List of Birds Found at Mon- 

 treal; 21 short article-;. June. '»!. 



No. 3.— Maine Items: Yellow-headed Blaclvbird; 

 Orchard Oriole ; The Slip System; Wilson's 

 Thru.sh; Hand-boolt of Agassiz Association; 

 25 short articles. July. '84. 



No. 4.— Screech Owl : Importance of Identifica- 

 tion; A La. Heronry; Cardinal Crosbeak; 

 Eagle's Nest; How to Make and Use Bird 

 Lime; 14 short articles. Aug.. '84. 



No. 5.— Bird-nesting— To Collect Scientifically, 

 (3 pages); Cala. Birds; From Wyoming; 22 

 short articles. Sept.. '84. 



No. 6.— Bobolink, (2U pages): Sea Birds of 

 Maine : Egging in Cala. Swamp; Old "Put" 

 and the Bird's Nest; List of Wisconsin Birds; 

 12 short articles. Oct.. '8-1. 



No. 7.— Bronzed Grakle ; Singular Duel ; Fi.sh 

 Hawk : Spurred Towhee and Least Tit : Old 

 "Put" and the Bird's Nest; Bird Island; 14 

 short articles. Nov.. "8-1. 



No. 8.— The Alligator; Collecting in Marshes: 

 Woodcock; "Our Birds in Their Haunts;" 

 lo-svn Notes: Re-lstart: Summer Redbird: 18 

 short articles. Dec, '84. 



No. y.— Baltimore Oriole; Texas Jottings; Sap- 

 suckers : Bam Owl ; American Ornithologists" 

 Union, (3 pages); How to Handle a Gun; 

 Black-capped Titmouse ; Egg of the Moa. Jan. 



No. 10.— Winter Wren; Cala. Duck Hunting: 

 Screech Owl:Z>«r!«'.? Egg Check List; Pea- 

 cock 's\-ith Queer Tastes; White-bellied Nut- 

 hatch; Line Jays; Shotted Robin Eggs; 8 

 short articles. Feb.. '8.5. 



No. 11.— Bank Swallow: English Sparrows; 

 Study of Birds: Gt. Horned Owl; Yellow- 

 billed Cuckoo; Gambel's Quail; Conn. Notes; 

 Intelligence of the Oriole; Yellow-breast 

 Chat: Maryland Yellow-throat; White- 

 Runiped Shrike ; List of Pacific Coast Birds : 

 Knights of Audubon; Sample Data Blanks. 

 ( I pages) ; 32 short articles. Mai'ch. '8.5. 



No. Vi.— Completes Vol. I. Title pages for 

 binding, with complete and exhaustive index. 

 (8 pages. ) April. '85. 



VOLUME II. consists of but two numbers. 

 Each contains 32 pages. 



No. I'i.— Bartram's Garden.?; South Carolina 

 Observations. (6 pages) : Scientific Names; 

 Gt. Homed Owl; Bank Swallows; Knights of 

 Audubon ; Hummingbird ; R. I. Notes ; Texas 

 Jottings: rX) short articles. May, '8.5. 



No. 14.— American Crossbill: Audubon's Bii'ds 

 of America: Illinois Notes; Destruction of 

 Birds ; Cuckoos ; Cala. notes ; Wrens on the 

 Warpath: Golden-winged Warbler: Fox 

 Sparrow; Our Winter ^Birds: Shipe Creek: 

 Red-head; Wisconsin Jotti'ugs: Burro-wing 

 Owl, etc. ; A Florida Trip : [Horned Lark : 

 Queer Homes and Nesting sites : Brave Bird : 

 Ferruginous Rough Leg: Sparrows; Pig- 

 my Nuthatch; 20 short articles. June. 'So. 



THE OOLOGIST. 



Volumes III. and IV. are Bi-Monthly. The 

 TeiniiulnLj v)la'ne3 are Monthly. 



VOLUME III. each tissue averages 12 pages. 

 No. 1.5.— Full page Frontispiece.— .4/rte7-/can H'rt- 



ter Ouzels and Xe.'t': Chester Island and the 



Marsh Wrens: Birds of Cortland Co.. N. Y.. 



(4', J pages); A Cheap Cabinet; Nest of the 



Black-an.I-white ' ve.'per: Summer Bird? 



about Was'aington,,D. C. ; Davie's Nests and 



Eggs of N. A. Birds; Water Blowpipe; 5 

 Short Articles. Jan. & Feb., '86. 



No. 16.— Vagary of a Collector ( Great Horned 

 Owl, Climbing Strap) : A Hunt for Tern Eggs; 

 Birds of Cortland Co.. N. Y. ; Notes from 

 North Carolina: Whip-Poor- Will: Nest of the 

 Brown Creeper; Black-billed Cuckoo Depo.sit- 

 Ing Eggs in a Yellow-billed Cuckoo's Nest; 

 Cannibalism of the Red-headed Woodpecker; 

 23 short articles. March & April. '86. 



No. 17.— History of a Bird-Box; Tree Sparrow; 

 Nests of the Green Heron ; Bird Notes from 

 Iowa; A Difficult Climb after a Red-tailed 

 Hawk's Nest; Review of the Check-Lists of 

 N. A. Birds, with special Reference to the 

 new A. O. U. List (3 pages); The State of 

 Maine as a Field for the Ornithologist; 16 

 short articles. May & June, '86. 



No. IS.— My first White Crane's Nest; Spring 

 Notes ; Notes from Chester County. Pa. ; 

 Turkey Buzzards ; How to Make a Cabinet ; 

 Chewink Nests in a Tree ; A Cabinet for ? . 

 large Collection : 13 short articles. Jy.&Aug..'86 



No. 19. — Collecting on Long Island ; Chimney 

 Swift; A Day with the Loons ; Illinois Bird- 

 Notes: Marsh Wrens: A Plucky Wood Pewee ; 

 Minnesota Notes: Yates County (N. Y. ) 

 Notes: 8 short articles. Sept. to Nov.. '86. 



No. 20.— Complefes Volume III. Title pages for 

 binding, with complete and exhaustive Index 

 of Volumes II. and III. Dec. '86. 



VOLUME IV. Each issue averages 12 pages. 



No. 21.— Birds of Chester County. Penn. (10 

 pages); Chestnut-sided Warbler; Massachu- 

 setts Letter; Bills of Birds: 3 short articles. 



No. 22.— Notes from Spoon River Region, lUI- 

 nf)is; Peculiarities of the Ruby-throated 

 Hummingbird: Purple Gallinule; How to 

 Collect; Bird Surgery; Rufous-vented and 

 Bendire's Thrashers and Canon Towhee; 

 Newsy Items; Notes from College Hill, Ohio; 

 Nesting of our Swallows ; Notes from Sulli- 

 van Co.. N. Y. : Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher; 

 Notes from Connecticut; Fidelity of the Song 

 Sparrow; 13 short articles. March to May. "87. 



Nos. 23- 24. Combined number.— Tour in the 

 Woods at Fort Washington. Pa. ; National 

 Museum (Department of Birds. Nest and 

 Eggs); Beaver County. Pa. Notes: Black- 

 capped Chic'itadee : Hawking; Agassiz Asso- 

 ciation and its Worlv: Crow Roosts of New 

 Jersey; Pwainson's Warbler: Destroy the 

 Cowbird; Traill's and Acadian Flycatohei's ; 7 

 short articles. June to Sept., '87. 



Nos. 2.5-26. Combined r.umi er,— Garnet; White 

 Pelican: Black-capped Chickadee; Mocking- 

 bird; Late Collectinfir; Yellow-'oi-easted Fly- 

 catcher; .5 short articles. Oct. to Dec, '87. 



VOLUME V. 16 nages each issue. 



No. 27.— Brown Thrasher; Bald Eagle; Shoot- 

 ing a Golden Eagle; Florida Jottings: De- 

 sti-uctive Nei^ting (English Sparrow) ; Arctic 

 Terns; Notes from Lincoln County. Maine: 

 Acadian Flycatcher: Red-shafted Flicker: 14 

 short articles. Jan.. '88. 



No. 28.— Title pages for binding, with complete 

 and exhaustive Index of Volume IV. ; Egg of 

 ^p%jornis MaxUnus. the Colossal Bird of Mad- 

 agascar (6'4 pages) ; Fish Crow. Feb.. '88. 



No. 2^.>.— Icterus spurhis; Water Blowpipe; 

 Cardinal Grosbeak: Kansas Notes: A Moon- 

 light Trip: Among the Coots on St. Clair 

 Flats : Brown Thrush in Confinement ; 9 short 

 articles. March. "88. 



No. 30.— Boat-tailed Grackle; Destruction of 

 our Native Birds (4 pages) : Gleanings from 

 Correspondence; Nest in a Horseshoe; 5 short 

 articles. April. '88. 



No. 31.— Oology (Advice to Collectors) ; Bald 

 Eagle; A Snipe Hunt; Notes takea at Norris- 

 town. Pa.: Nidification of Ictin'-a mississippi- 

 ensis; Among the Warblers; Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler: 6 short articles. May. '88. 



No. 3-2.— Family Eall'viae in Michigan (3H 



