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THE OOLOGIST 



own house, and reform its own editor 

 before commencing to make war on 

 the small boys of the country, be- 

 cause they may be disposed to com- 

 mence the scientific pursuits of their 

 life in the manner in which many of 

 our most learned men along these 

 lines began. 



One repeating shot-gun sold as the 

 result of an advertisement in Outing 

 will reduce the number of wild fowl 

 or upland game birds likely to be 

 upon the face of this earth ten years 

 from today, a hundred fold more than 

 all the collecting that any egg collec- 

 tor is likely to do. 



To begin a militant campaign 

 against the egg collector because he 

 takes the egg of the bird while endeav- 

 oring to further in every way by ad- 

 vertisement and the like, the destruc- 

 tion of the bird that laid the egg, ap- 

 pears to the mind of the writer, as 

 silly — simply silly! 



BOOKS RECEIVED. 

 Summer Birds of Shaw's Garden. 



We are in receipt of a separate 

 from the 20th Annual Report of the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden, by Prof. 

 Otto Widmann. It is ample recom- 

 mendation that the paper is by Mr. 

 Widmann. That at once entitles it 

 to high rank, for Mr. Widmann's at- 

 tainments in the line of Ornithological 

 knowledge are well known and high- 

 ly respected. 



The paper shows a remarkably care- 

 ful preparation, and painstaking in- 

 vestigation, as well as a very unusual 

 number of birds to be found in so 

 small an area, in the very midst of a 

 great commercial city of upwards of 

 500.000 people. 



The birds noted that nest within the 

 garden are as follows: 



289 Bob-white. 



316 Mourning Dove. 



373 Screech Owl. 



387 Yellow-billed Cuckoo. 



388 Black-billed Cuckoo. 



406 Red-headed Woodpecker. 



412 Northern Flicker. 



423 Chimney Swift. 



444 Kingbird. 



4.52 Great Crested Flycatcher. 



461 Wood Pewee. 



466 Traill's Flycatcher. 



477 Blue Jay. 



488 Crow. 



495 Cowbird. 



498 Red-winged Blackbird. 



501 Meadowlark. 



506 Orchard Oriole. 



507 Baltimore Oriole. 

 511b Bronzed Grackle. 

 529 American Goldfinch. 

 B. S. English Sparrow. 



E. T. European Tree Sparrow. 



563 Chipping Sparrow. 



581 Song Sparrow. 



587 Towhee. 



593 Cardinal. 



595 Rose-breasted Grosbeak. 



598 Indigo Bunting. 



627 Warbling Vireo. 



633 Bell's Vireo. 



652 Yellow Warbler. 



681 Yellowthroat. 



683 Yellow-breasted Chat 



703 Mockingbird. 



704 Catbird. 



705 Brown Thrasher. 

 756 Wood Thrush. 

 761 Robin. 



Those who visited the Garden with- 

 out nesting therein are listed as fol- 

 lows, A. O. U. Nos.: 



360 Sparrow Hawk. 



390 Belted Kingfisher. 



420 Nighthawk. 



428 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 



611 Purple Martin. 



620 Cedar Waxwing. 



Notes on American Woodcock. 



In Number 2, Volume 9, of the Bulle- 

 tin of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences, is a splendid paper on the 

 American Woodcock by that well- 

 known naturalist, Ottomar Reinecke, 

 accompanied by numerous half-tone 

 plates of the birds, their nests and 

 eggs. The name of the writer is a 

 safe guaranty of the thoroughness of 

 the paper, and is a valuable contribu- 

 tion to the literature relating to this 



