THE OOLOGIST. 



fiatch ; Prairie Homed Lark : Collecting Ex- 

 perience ; Snowy Owl ; Nest of the Texan Bob- 

 wlilte ; Unusual Nesting of the Downy Wood- 

 pecker ; Evening Grosbeak ; Blue-Gray Gnat- 

 catcher and Tufted Tit ; 6 short articles. Feb. 



No^ .53.— Summer Residents ot Buena Vista 

 County, Iowa: In the Woods of Florida; 

 Birds of Mackinac Island. Mich. ; Among the 

 Gulls on Isle Royale ; Sandhill Crane; Even- 

 ing Grosbeak ; Ruby-crowned Kinglet ; Cac- 

 tus Wren ; Screech Owl in Captivity ; Taking 

 Bii'ds' Nests ; 11 short articles. Mai'ch, '90. 



No. 54.— Caged Eagles: J'^vt-ning Oinsheait (2 

 pages); Solitary Sandpipt^r, Summer Ived- 

 bird : Notes from Kocbestcr. Mich. ; Family 

 Rallidae in Minnesota; Downy Woodpecker , 

 Hardly Ornithological , lU short articles. Apr. 



No. 5!S.— Do Birds Mate More than Once?; 

 Habits of the Evening Grosbeak; Pileated 

 W^oodpecker in Florida; Bird Protection, 

 Chinese or Mongolian Pheasant in Oregon; 

 Prairie Warbler ; Winter Birds In Spring ; A 

 Valuable Work : Davie's New Work on Taxi- 

 dermy ; 12 short articles. May, '90. 



No. 56.- Nesting habits or the American Oyster- 

 cat<;her; Prairie Horned Lark ; Saw- Whet or 

 Acadian Owl; Pine Warbler ; Bluebird . Albi- 

 nos; Pileated Woodpecker in Mahoning 

 County. Ohio; Belligerent Neighbors. Re- 

 ra-)rding the number of Birds Observed ; Book 

 Review ; Prospectus of the Worcester Natural 

 History Camp (4Vi pages) ; 12 short articles. Je. 



No. .57.— American Cros.sbill ; Crested t^rehe-' 

 Voracious Mountain Trout: Yellow-hilled 

 Cuckoo; Long tailed Chickadee; Rough- 

 winged Swallow ; Great Horned Owl ; Some 

 Unusual Happenings ; Pallas' Cormorant ; 

 Eggs of Audubon's Warbler , 12 short articles. 



NJo. 58.— The Caprimulgidaf in Arkansas; 

 White-bellied Nuthatch ; Strange Co-habita 

 tion: Variation in the Eggs oj Hubia iudovici- 

 ana; King Rail in Minnesota ; 8 short arti- 

 cles. Aiig., '90. 



No. .59.— The Use of the Camera In the Field ; 

 Saw-Whet or Acadian Owl; Nesting of the 

 Black Snowbird: Marsh Hawk. Plain Tit- 

 mouse ; Lost Opportunities : The Magnolia 

 Warbler; Wilson's Plover at Home ; 8 short 

 articles. Sept., '90. 



No. 60.— The Use of the Camera in the Field. 

 A study of nests (6V2 pages, illustrated with 4 

 photo engi-avings); The Flathead (Montana) 

 Field; The Owls ot San Bernardino Valley; A 

 Collecting Adventure. The Ruby-throated 

 Hummingbird: Ornithologists at Indian- 

 apolis; The Burrowing Owl: After "Gators' 

 Eggs;"" Notes from Northern Minnesota. 

 Oct. '90. 



No. 61.— The Ruby-throated Hummingbird 

 (Fairies in a Fairyland) (.';!',2 pages) ; Notes 

 from Travis Co., Texas; A Week to Mt. Ham- 

 ilton ; Great Horned Owl ; Strange Co-habita- 

 tion: Brewer's Blackbii'd, Nesting of ( on- 

 topus borealis in Maine; A Letter from Oliver 

 Da\ie Relating to his New Work on Taxi- 

 dermy; Notes on Ardea kerodias; The Pro- 

 thonotary W^arbler: Nesting of the Virginia 

 Rail ; The Yellow Rail in Mich. ; An Outline 

 of the More Valuable Articles Appearing in 

 the YOUNG OOLOGisx (3 pages) ; 7 short arti- 

 cles. Nov., '90. 



No. 62.— The Rusty Blackbird; Notes from 

 Ohio; Evening Grosbeak in New Hampshire; 

 The Cala. Partridge or Valley Quail ; Nothing 

 at All— a Poem; Case for Instruments; Notes 

 from Island Lake. Florida ; 3 short articles. 

 Dec. '90. 



VOLUME VIII. No. 63 contains 24 pages. 

 No. 6i, 32 pages. No. H6-67. 36 pages inclndiug 

 cover. The Dalance, 20 pages, including covers 

 No. 74 also contains an additional 4 page in- 

 set. 



No. 63.— A Day Among the Fish Hawks: The 

 Marsh Wrens of Hudson C0..N. J.; Now,— 

 The Time to Wage War on the English Spar- 

 row; Nesting of the Downy Woodpecker in 

 Kalamazoo Co., Mich.; American Sparrow 

 Hawk; Anna's Hummingbird; Was it a Cow- 

 Bird's nest: Florida Red-shouldered Hawk; 

 On Owl's Tenacity to Life; Western Horned 

 Owl : Albino Eggs ; An Afternoon with the 

 Birds: A 'Good Enough" Way to Blow Egg; 

 Meeting of the A. O. U. ; Expert Taxidermy; 

 5 short articles. Jan. '4)1, 

 No. 64.— Flycatcher Notes;' Collecting in the 

 Marsh ; House Finch ; The Barred Owl ; Yel- 

 low-breasted Chat; Anna's Hummingbird; 

 Birds North of Their Usual Range ; Egg Col- 

 lecting—The Two Classes; A Perfect Collect- 

 ino ; Texas Notes ; Nesting of Spiniis pinus in 

 the Northwest. Title pages for binding with 

 complete and exhaustive index for Vol. vii. 

 <> short articles. Feb. '61. 

 No. 65.— A New Year's Soliloquy; Water Ouzel; 

 An Ornithological Paradise; "The English 

 Sparrow Must Go"; ^Foud I/Iothers: Pas.sen- 

 ger Pigeon ; The Oologist ; Caracara or Mex- 

 ican Eagle: The Cooper's Hawk; Some Early 

 Birds of Linn Co., Oregon; Broad-winged 

 Hawk; The Extinction of Our Birds. Mar.'fll 

 No. 66-67.- Combined Number.— A List of the- 

 Birds of Elgin Co., Ont.— (6i^ pages); Ran- 

 dom Notes on the Belted Klng-flsher: The 

 Ena-llsh Sparrov/l A Few Articles for the 

 Collector; Screech Owl; Western Meadow 

 Lark; Hermit Thrush ; Aves urMs. A Much 

 Occupied Nest! The Whlp-ooor-will ; Nesting 

 of the Red-tailed Hawk; Cooper's Hawk: The 

 Eagles of North America; Nesting of the 

 Black-canped Chlcka'iee In Kalamazoo Co., 

 Mich. ; Nesting of the Purple Finch; The Red 

 eyedVlreo; Bird Life of an Islet; Migration 

 of the Canada Goose: Association of A^n^-r- 

 can Ornithologists; Notes on the Wri^?,ht's 

 Flycatcher: 3 short articles. Apr. and May '91. 

 No. 68.— The Hummingbirds of California; 

 Ring Pheasant: The Carolina Wren; Ameri- 

 can Dipper; A Trip to Pelican Island; Michi- 

 gan Ornithology: A Duty to Perform: Great 

 Homed Owl; Enemies of Our Feathered 

 Friends; Queec Neighbors; Bird Migration. 

 June '91. 

 No. 69.— Some Florida Notes: The New Era in 

 Omlthologv; The Amusing Antics of a Pair 

 of Brown Thrashers: The Chewlnk in Or- 

 leans County; The Yellow-billed and Black- 

 billed Cuckoos; Changes In'Mlchlrran Orni- 

 thology; My First Nlghthawk's Nest; The 

 Wrens of North Carolina: What causes the 

 Quick Notes of the Whip-poor-will; A Better 

 Report from Texas; Items of Interest from 

 Florida: The American Osprey; Nesting of 

 the Chestnut-backed Chickadee. July. '91. 

 >jo. 70,— The Story of a Flood ; Feeding the 

 Birds in Winter; Nest and Eggs of the Ru- 

 fous Hummingbird ; The Chewlnk in Broome 

 Co.. N. Y. ; The Carolina Wren Again: A Trip 

 to Smith's Island; More About the Iowa Ea- 

 gles ; Some Notes on the Breeding of the Car- 

 olina Snow-bird : Black and White Creepers; 

 Nesting of the Sharp-shinned Hawk; Danger 

 in using Arsenical Soap; Interesting Notes 

 from Oi-egon : Answers to that Turkey Vul- 

 ure Query; "Meadow Larks and Turkey Buz- 

 zards; Seaside School of Biology; World's 

 Fair Notes. Aug. '91. 

 No. 71.— The Black and White Creeping Vv''ar- 

 bler,' An Indiana Herony; The English spar- 

 row In Bay City, "Mich; Michigan Notes; 

 Gambel's White-cruwned Sparrow; A Rai>»- 



