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THE OOLOGIST 



The New Egg Price List 



At last we have all of the votes in 

 the election of members of the Com- 

 mittee of twenty-five to revise the 

 pieces of eggs for an entirely new 

 Price List of North American Birds' 

 Eggs. The class of men elected 

 insure a fair division of respon- 

 sibility and certainly represent 

 the front rank of Oology in 

 North America. Now let the com- 

 mittee elect a chairman by corres- 

 pondence and proceed at once with 

 this work, so badly needed, and al- 

 ready too long delayed. A spirit of 

 give and take, concession and com- 

 promise will ensure a catalog that 

 will be standard for years. It is to 

 be hoped that this representative 

 committee can reconcile all their dif- 

 ferences within the committee and 

 avoid the necessity of electing the 

 further Supreme Committee of Three. 

 Let us hape that the catalog will be 

 in our hands ready for the printer by 

 February 1st, 1920. 



R. M. Barnes. 



Hon. R. M. Barnes, Dear Sir: 



As tabulator of the votes for the 

 "Committee of Twenty-five" American 

 oologists to perform the much needed 

 revision of the prices of American 

 birds' eggs, I herewith submit the re- 

 sult of the election. 

 Pacific Area: — 



J. Hopper Bowles, The Woodstock, 

 Tacoma, Wash. 



H. W. Carriger, 5185 Trask St., Oak- 

 land, Calif. 



W. L. Dawson, Museum of Compara- 

 tive Oology, Santa Barbara, Calif. 

 Intra-Mountain Area: — 

 O. A. Treganza, 610 Utah Savings and 

 Trust Bldg., Salt Lake City, Utah. 



E. F. Page, 601 North 3rd St., Al- 

 buquerque, New Mexico. 



F. C. Willard, 110 E. 23rd St., Farm- 

 ingdale, L. L, N. Y. 



Western Area: — 



Rev. P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids. 

 Kansas. 



Rev. H. E. Wheeler, Conway, Ar- 

 kansas. 



Guy Love, Oberlin, Kansas. 



Central Western Area: — 



A. E. Price, Grant Park, 111. 

 G. A. Abbott, Otsego, Mich. 



B. R. Bales, M. D., Circleville, Ohio. 

 Central Eastern Area: — 



J. Parker Norris, Jr., Room 694, City 

 Hall, Philadelphia, Pa. 



R. C. Harlow, State College, Pa. 



Thos. H. Jackson, West Chester, Pa. 

 New England Area: — 



John E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 



A. C. Bent, Taunton, Mass. 



Roscoe I. Giles, 82 Newton St., Marl- 

 boro, Mass. 

 Southern Area: — 



Harold H. Bailey, Box 112, Newport 

 News, Va. 



Troup D. Perry, 22 E. 33rd St., Sa- 

 vannah, Ga. 



Oscar E. Baynard, Plant City, Fla. 

 Canada: — 



R. W. Tufts, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. 



E. Arnold, Grand Trunk Ry., 

 Montreal, Quebec. 



Walter Raine, Waverly Villa, Kew 

 Beach, Toronto. 



The addresses of the members of 

 the committee are purposely given, as 

 I believe it to be a privilege as well 

 as the duty of every oologist in North 

 America to communicate with his 

 nearest committeeman or any member 

 of the committee with whom he has 

 corresponding relations, stating his 

 views in regards prices. Only in this 

 way will a truly successful and satis- 

 factory catalog be realized, and I am 

 sure that every member of the com- 

 mittee will be only too glad to consider 

 any sensible suggestion. 



Respectfully submitted, 



R. B. Bales. 



Aug. 16, 1919. 



Albino Eggs of the Long-tailed Chat. 

 J. H. Bowles, Tacoma, Wash. 

 A friend in California collected this 

 season a nest and four eggs of the 

 Long-tailed Chat, which he recently 

 sent me. They are so unusual as to 

 seem well worth recording. The size 

 is normal, but three of them are pure 

 white and unmarked, the fourth being 

 also pure white, but with a very few 

 dots of red brown. This nest and set 

 was collected by Mr. Adrian J. Van 

 Rossem, of Visalia, Calif. 



