THE OOLOGIST. 



Notes ; 8 short articles. Sept. to Nov b6. 



bindintr with complete nnrl exhaustive Index 

 of Volumes II. and III. Dec, '86. 

 VOLUME IV. Each issue averages 12 pages 

 N ). ai. -Birds ol Chester Coimiy, t-emi. (IJ 

 pases); Chestnut-sidetl IV arhle.r; Massachu- 

 setts Letter; Bills of Birds ; 3 shoi;t articles. 

 No 23.— Notes from Spoon F.iver Region, Illi- 

 nois; PeculiariUes of the Ruby-throa.ed 

 Hummingbird; Purple V,''V^iii"l*^;„J^'?^\,h' 

 Collect; Bird Surgery; Ilufous-vented and 

 Beudire's Thrashers and Canon lownee. 

 Newsv Items; Notes from College Hill. Ohio. 

 Nesting of our Swallows; Notes from Siill- 

 van Co, N. Y. ; Blue-Gray Gnat<^atcher : 

 Notes from Connecticut; Fidelity of the bong- 

 SpaiTOw; 13 short articles. March to May hr. 

 Nos 33-24. Combined number,— Tour in tht 

 Woods at Fort Washington. Pa.; National 

 Museum (Department of Birds, Nest and 

 Eggs) ; Beaver County, Pa. Notes ; Black- 

 capped Chickadee; Hawking: Agassiz Asso- 

 ciation and its Work; Crow Roosts of New 

 Jersey; Swainson's. Warbler; Destroy the 

 Cowbird; Traill's and Acadian Flycatchers; . 

 short articles. June to Sept., '87. 

 N)S 2.5-26. ConiDiued numler.—Gannet : White 

 Pelican; Black-ci>pped Chickadee; Mocking- 

 bird: Lat« Collerting; Yellow-breasted J< ly- 

 catcher: 5 short articles. Oct. to Dec, '87. 

 VOLUME V. 16 pages each issue. 

 No 2?.-Brown Tmasher; Bald Eagle; Shoot- 

 ing a Golden Eagle; Florida Jottings: De- 

 8tnictivo Nesting (English Sparrow) ; Arctic 

 Terns; Notes from Lincoln County. Maine ; 

 Acadian Flycatcher; Red-shafted Flicker ; 14 

 * short article's. Jan., '88. 

 No 88.— Title pages for binding, with complete 

 and exhaustive Index of Volume IV. ; Egg ol 

 jEpyarnis Maximtis, the Colossal Bird of Mad- 

 agascaj- (GVi pages) ; Fish Crow. Feb., '88. 

 1^0. 2^.—Ictevus sjmrim\ Water Blowpipe; 

 Cardinal Grosbeak; Kansas Notes; A Moon- 

 light Trip; Among the Coots on St. Clair 

 Flats; Brown Thrush in Confinement; 9 short 

 ' articles. March, '88. 



No :-;0.— Boat-tailed Grackle; Destruction of 

 our Native Birds (4 pages) ; Gleanings from 

 Correspondence : Nest in a Horseshoe ; 5 short 

 articles. April, '88. . „ , , 



No. 31.— Oology (Advice to Collectors): Bald 

 Eagle; A Snipe Hunt; Notes taken at Norris- 

 town, Pa. ; Nidification of Ictinea nussissiiipi- 

 enKis; Among the Warblers; Chestnut-sided 

 W^arbler: 6 short articles. May, '88. 

 No. 33.— Familv liallidne in Michigan (.S'4 

 pages): Egg Collecting; Bird Voices; Road 

 Kiinnpr : S:ot«s on the Birds of Beaver, Pa. ; 3 

 Short articles. June, '88. 

 No .1-;. i.>c).,ii or cireat Northern Diver (2 

 pages); Eggs of Mississippi Kite; Nesting of 

 Vi-.,wn Pelican; Breeding Habits of American 

 Flamingo (3 pages) ; ?, short articles. July."88. 

 No« :■'■:'.:>. ('(.iiib'nfd ni'T>ibPv. — Ken"niscpnces 

 Of 1886; Trip to Seven Mile^Beach; Defense of 

 i,.n,.--. ti.-.-i WMricDi \> auUe.-^Ua Co., VViscon- 

 > Bin; Great Auk; Arkansas Notes: Black 

 Snowbird ; Notes for Collectors ; Some of our 

 Falronitlae; Jim (A T:ime Crow) ; Buffalo 

 International Fair; 8 short articles. Aug..Se]). 

 N >s. 3«>-37. Combined number,— Americnn'Os- 

 prev; A Day with the Culls ; Florida Notes ; 

 A Plea for the English Sparrow ; Useful Con- 

 trivances; Game Laws; Notes from Lake 

 County, Ohio; South Carolina Notes; A 

 Pleasant Excursion ; Sp;irrows and Cat; Her- 

 mit Thrush : Western Hou.«e Wren ; A Few 

 Words to Obsprvers ; Flying Squirrels Occu- 

 pying Birds' Nests ; 15 short articles. Oct., Nov. 

 Ro. -i^. — ;)-itrich Fanning : An Afternoon's Col- 

 lecting Trip ; California Notes : Notes from 

 Bt. L.awreuce Co , N. Y. ; Bird-Arrivals in N. 



E. Indiana ; Bank Swallow ; Faunal Changes, 

 — DeKalb Co.. lndi:xna ; Audubon Monument t 

 10 short articles. Dec, '88 

 VOLUME VI. 20 pages each issue. 

 No. 3U.— Title pages for binding, with Complete 

 and Exhaustive Index of Voliune V. ; Breed- 

 ing Habits of the Bridled Tern : Wood Thrush 

 and Brown Thrasher ; From Western North 

 Carolina ; Birds of Broome Co.. N. Y. : Pecul- 

 iar Egg of Corv'jsfrt/ffirorus,- Cuolcoos : Notes 

 fromAlabama ; Carolina Parakeet; 12 short 

 articles. Jan.. '89. 

 No. 40.— A Red-headed Family (Pii-idaf) (6',4 

 pages) ; Raptores of Michigan ; Wild Turkey i 

 Birds of Iowa: The "Critic" Criticised; 8: 

 short articles. Feb.. '89. 

 No. 41.— Directions for making a Bird or Mam- 

 mal Skin ; The Ow! ; A Crow Quandary j 

 Birds of Macon County, Ga. ; Collecting Ex- 

 perience;- Story of a Tame Crow; 6 short, 

 articles. March, '89. 

 No. 42.— Raptores of Michigan (3 p,?ges) : Nest- 

 ing of the Tufted Tit; Peculiarities in Sets; 

 and Eggs of a Few of our Commoner Birds t 

 Difference between White-ram])ed and Log- 

 gerhead Shrikes : Birds of Grafton Co., N. 

 H. ; Sample Pages of Davie's New Check- 

 List ; 6 short articles. April, '89. 

 No. 43. — Avi-Fauna of Orleans County, N. Y. 

 ((■)'/<; pages) ; The Robin ; The Crow in the- 

 North; Bald Ep ale's Vpct : Making Bird 

 Skins ; 3 short articles. May, '89. 

 No. 44.— Birds of Matthews cO., \"a. ; Ch.anges 

 in the Nesting of Birds; Coliecting Tour in 

 Florida ; Nesting of Pygmy Owl ; Difference 

 between "White-rumped and Loggerhead, 

 Shrikes ; Black-ljilled Cuckoo in Dakota ; 

 Datas ; Nest of ]\Iarsh Hawk ; 4 short articles^ 

 No. 45.— Michigan Notes (4is pages) ; Arkansas 

 Notes ; Goldliiieh in Confinement : Burrowing: 

 Owl : Our Reply ; Gleanings from Correspond- 

 ents ; 5 short articles. July, '89. 

 No. 46.— Notes from Hillsborough Co., Florida 

 (3 pages) ; Shore Lark in Canada ; Can Quails 

 be Domesticated ? ; Red-tailed Hawk ; Untime- 

 ly End of a Set of Bro^^^l-headed Nuthatch, 

 Eggs ; Broad-winged Hawk and Black-capped 

 Chickadee ; Gleanings from Correspondents t 

 Wilson Ornithological Chapter of the Agassiz. 

 Association : 4 short articles. Aug.. '89. 

 No. 47.— "Old Abe" Jr. : A Day's Collecting 

 Ti-ip; Bell's Vireo; -Black Tern; Yellow- 

 rumped Warbler; An Automatic Blower, 

 Flight of Ducks ; White-eyed or Florida Tow 

 hee; Pygmy Owl: Cooper's Hawk; 10 short 

 articles. Sept., "8'.). 

 No. 48.— Winter Birds of Kalamazoo County^ 

 Mich. (2it pagest : Americiin Loug-eai'ed 

 Owl ; Wood Ibis in Illinois ; Birds of Bertie 

 Co.. N. C. ; Collecting in Western Florida ; A 

 White Sparrow Nests and Eggs of North. 

 American Birds ; Black Tern ; 8 short articles. 

 Nf>. 49.— Thick-billed Grebe; Birds' Nests; Yel- 

 low-hilled Cuckoo ; Mechanical Egg Drill i 

 Birds Moving their eggs : Cardinal Grosbeak j 

 To Pack Eggs for Transportation ; Disposal 

 of Duplicate Siiecimens ; Complete List of 

 the Birds of North America arr;vngod accord- 

 ing to the A. O. U. Check-List (6 pages) ; S 

 short articles. Nov., '89. 

 No. .")0.— Birds of Niag:ira County. N. Y. ; SITore 

 Lark ; Incidents in Bird Life ; Gleanings from 

 our Correspondence : Alarsh Hawk ; "i'ellow. 

 headed Khitkbird ; Northern Phalarope ; 1? 

 short articles. Dec, '89. 

 VOLUME VIL 



No. 51.— Title pages for binding, with Complete 

 and Exhaustive Index of Volume VI. : Note& 

 on Florida Birds (3 pages) ; Ornithology and 

 Bicycling ; Audubon Ornithological Club t 

 Florida Field Notes ; Trip to Devil's Glen : 

 Simple Contrivance ; Capture of a Trumpetei 

 Swan ; 4 short articles. Jan.. '90. 

 No. ,55}.— Breeding of the Brown-headed Nut- 



