THE OOLOGIST 



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ting paper. 



When dry cut out an oval of tissue, 

 buff or white, as color may demand. 

 Have it from several hundredths to an 

 eighth of an inch larger than the open- 

 ing. Dip a darning needle in fish glue, 

 use nothing else, and apply to the 

 opening. With the darning needle, 

 carefully "caress" the edges of the 

 tissue into place. (With large eggs, 

 the edges of the tissue should be 

 slitted, to assist smooth applying.) It 

 is well, with larger eggs, to appy two 

 layers of the tissue. On the last 

 might be imprinted, in common ink, 

 the A. O. U. and set numbesr. The 

 glue having well set, use the darning 

 needle to apply a thin solution of col- 

 lodion. (If your collodion thickens, 

 use ether). 



One should be told here that the 

 eggs of some species are too fragile 

 for this sort of treatment; while other 

 eggs, of perhaps equal size, come out 

 of this treatment quite as strong as if 

 they had been fresh. This treatment 

 is quite effective in mending valuable 

 cracked eggs. 



P. B. Peabody, 

 Blue Rapids, Kansas. 



MANY SLATE-COLORED JUNCOES 

 KILLED 



The sad fate of feathered visitors 

 from the northland during the night 

 of Oct. 31st. 



The lure of the bright lights caused 

 the death of hundreds of Slate-colored 

 Juncoes in the business district of the 

 city last night. During the early part 

 of the evening there was an immense 

 Alight of the Slate-colored Juncoes 

 from the northwest over the city, and 

 they were attracted down info Main 

 street by the lights. Scores of them 

 were killed as they struck against the 

 electrolier lights of the plate glass 

 fronts, attracted by the lights within. 



At the post office where the lights 

 were burning within, and the door had 

 been left open, hundred of them were 

 found dead and as many more flying 

 about the room this morning when the 

 post office force came on duty. 



An examination showed that about 

 two thirds of them were young birds 

 There has been an unusually large mi- 

 gration of the Juncoes this fall, also 

 of several species of Sparrows. 



John L. Cole, 

 Nevada, Iowa. 



BACK YARD BIRDS 



While in San Antonio staying at Mr. 

 Wilson's at West End, San Antonio, I 

 was surprised at the abundance of 

 bird life right in the thickly settled 

 part of town. A pair of Curve-billed 

 Thrashers would come to the yard day 

 after day and hop around and eat bird 

 seeds thrown on the ground. They 

 also would pick up bread or any scraps 

 thrown into the yard. They were very 

 tame and would not flush and fly away 

 when we would go into the back yard. 

 Every morning they would sing us a 

 tune in answer to the faint tune sung 

 by a pet Painted Bunting that Mr. Wil- 

 son had in his house. 



Humming birds would come every 

 evening and hum around the beauti- 

 ful flowers that Mr. Wilson planted 

 and taken the best care of. Flowers, 

 birds and jewelry was Mr. Wilson's 

 hobby. The Hummingbirds were very 

 tame as they knew they were well pro- 

 tected. They would hum around the 

 flowers within two feet of where Mr. 

 Wilson would be in his rocking chair 

 reading the evening paper. 



Inca Doves cooed away in the elms 

 and mosqutes near by, and Wrens 

 rustled around the fences and out 

 houses. The Common Cardinal and 

 Texas Cardinal would occasionally 

 come around the house but not stay 



