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THE OOLOGIST 



of Plumbeous Chickadees. He also 

 found two Tufted Titmouse nests. 

 Lieut. Woodruff Yeates collected a 

 set of Turkey Vultures March 9, 19 . 

 I collected a set of Plumbeous Chicka- 

 dees March 23, 19 . 



Ramon Graham, 

 Ft. Worth, Tex. 



"Millimeter Races" 

 Editor, The Oologist, 

 Dear Sir: Desiring a correspond- 

 ent, near Vancouver, I ran over the 

 list of sets offered in your magazine 

 for December by Mr. Munro, of Okan- 

 agan Landing, B. C. Finding on that 

 list that sets of "Western," (Bale), 

 Goldfinch were offered, I wrote it all 

 down with real joy. For I have been 

 trying these two years to secure a 

 single syllable of valid information 

 concerning the nesting of this "milli- 

 meter race." Eagerly I prepared to 

 write Mr. Munro, when all at once it 

 occurred to me to look up the respect- 

 ive breeding ranges of the two west- 

 ern representatives of the Genus 

 "Spinus," or "Astragalinus," or what- 

 soever may happen to be the scien- 

 tific name of the Goldfinches at the 

 present hour! Then I found what I 

 should have remembered without 

 looking it up; that the domain of the 

 "Pallid" Goldfinch is wholly inland 

 the Goldfinch of the Coast Region be- 

 ing salicamans. Imagine my chagrin! 

 Kindly grant me the courtesy of ask- 

 ing that any of your readers in the 

 Rocky Mountain region that have the 

 Goldfinch breeding within their do- 

 main will kindly communicate with 

 me. 



To show the absurd futility of some 

 scientific classifications I might say, 

 that a male Goldfinch kindly sent me 

 right from the heart of the breeding 

 habitat of the Pallid Goldfinch by Mr. 

 Mitchell, of Saskatchewan, proved to 

 be just "tristis." Moreover, let me 



whisper it in your left ear, very gent- 

 ly, I have been informed from head- 

 quarters in regard to specimens sent 

 for sub-specific identification, with 

 the tags removed for the express pur- 

 pose of avoiding bias, in the identify- 

 ing, that it would be necessary to 

 give the locality from which the spec- 

 imens came before they could be 

 identified! What do you boys think 

 of all that? 



P. B. Peabody, 

 Blue Rapids, Kansas. 



Egg Hunters, Hunting German in 

 France 

 Lieut. G. E. Maxon, Rufus Lackland 

 and Charles McLendon, my old time 

 collecting friends have arrived safely 

 over seas. Another egg hunting friend 

 of mine is finishing up his time at 

 the officer's training school. He is 

 Woodruff Yeates. The fellows will 

 have some datas on eggs if they get 

 to do any collecting over there. It 

 would be some queer data, saying that 

 a certain kind of Wren's nest was 

 found in the skull of a German, in a 

 deserted trench. 



Ramon Graham, 

 Fort Worth, Tex. 



WESTERN RED-TAIL 



March 22, 1894. W. A. Strong, Tul- 

 are, Cal. Four lightly clouded over 

 entire surface with light colored small 

 spots. 



2.46 X 1.94, 2.43 x 1.92, 2.38 x 1.92, 

 2.37 X 1.89. 



W. A. Strong, 



San Jose, Cal. 



We Are Short of Copy. See! 



Send in some forthwith. This means 

 everyone. Thanks in advance. 



Editor. 



