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THE OOLOGIST. 



459 OLIVE SIDED FLYCATCHER 

 — June 15th; three eggs. Forty feet 

 up in a hemlock and five feet from the 

 trunk on a horizontal limb. 



461 WOOD PB WEE— June 21st; 

 three eggs. 



471 BLUE JAY— June 1st, five eggs. 



507 BALTIMORE ORIOLE— In two 

 nests, close by; the birds began sit- 

 ting May 25th and May 28th. 



538 INDIGO F I N C H— June 13th 

 seemed to be the date on which most 

 finches had fresh sets. In a little walk 

 that day I saw seven nests; five of 

 three eggs and two of four eggs. 



581 SONG SPARROW— Saw fresh 

 eggs in sets of four and five from April 

 15th to June 15th. 



619 CEDAR BIRD— June 27th seem- 

 ed to be the height of the nesting sea- 

 son. Saw sets of four and five each. 



629c SOLITARY VIREO— June 1st; 

 four eggs. 



636 BLACK AND WHITE WARB- 

 LER — June 8th; four eggs. 



652 YELLOW WARBLE R— New 

 nests finished by May 25th. 



657 MAGNOLIA WARBLER— Saw 

 six nests from May 25th to June 11th 

 each containing four eggs. 



659 CHESTNUT SIDED WARBLER 

 — Saw sets of four on June 8th, 15tU 

 and 22d. 



679 MOURNING WARBLER— June 

 8th; five eggs. 



681 YELLOW THROAT— June 25th; 

 four eggs. 



684 HOODED WARBLE R— June 

 6th; five eggs. 



Out of a number of nests that I 

 have found of this warbler this is the 

 first to contain five; four is the full 

 set here. 



686 CANADIAN WARBLER— June 

 11th, five eggs. June 25th saw several 

 broods just out of the nest. 



722 WINTER WREN— June 15th; 

 found nest of large young. 



75Sa Ol.IVE BACKED THRUSH— 

 June 15tli : four eggs. 



R. B. Simpson. 



The Sondor. 



The September - October 1909 num- 

 ber of The Condor comes to hand and 

 "is gooder than ever" containing 

 among other things the following ar- 

 ticles: 



"Some Owls along the Gila River 

 in Arizona" by M. French Gillman; 

 "The Nesting of the Heerman Gull," 

 by Pingrey I. Osborn; "Fall Notes 

 from Eastern Kansas," by Alex. Whet- 

 more; "Cliff Climbing for Prairie Fal- 

 cons," by George Richards; "Nesting 

 Notes on the Lucy Warbler," by M. 

 French Gillman; "Notes on some Birds 

 of Kern County," by Harry H. Shel- 

 don; two pages of notes from Field 

 and Study; the Editor's page; three 

 book reviews; and a list of the mem- 

 bers of the Cooper Ornithological 

 Club, showing a membership of two 

 hundred forty. 



The Condor is the acknowledged au- 

 thority on the birds West of the Rocky 

 Mountains, and is a high class publi- 

 cation. 



However the most interesting fea- 

 ture of this number of The Condor is 

 the announcement by the business 

 manager that the Condor has adopted 

 the method so long in vogue with THE 

 OOLOGIST of offering "free to each 

 and any member of the Club, one 

 notice of about thirty-five words in 

 each issue of The Condor," referring 

 to exchange notices such as appear in 

 this magazine. That this will give an 

 added impetus to the exchange of spe- 

 cimens, among collectors of natural 

 history specimens particularly bird 

 skins, nests and eggs, we have no 

 doubt. 



The pendulum has commenced to 

 swing the other way. The really care- 

 ful and accurate modern collector of 

 birds' eggs is no longer looked down 

 upon. Indeed we have always main- 

 tained that he had as legitimate a 

 place among scientific investigators of 



