THE OOLOGIST. 



The YouM Oolof ist i The Oolorist 



CompiHsing together the most popular magazine, devoted to Birds, their 



Nests and Eggs, ever published. 



Appreciating their valne, the published has reserved a limited quantity of each 



issue to supply future .lenuuids. He has now, all told, 



LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED COPIES OF EACH ISSUE. 



Collectors will readity see the advisability of Completing their Files or obtaining a 



Complete Set at Once ! 

 Batsk numbers will soon be exceedingly rare and valuable and possibly not obtainable at any price 



CONTENTS. 



The following table or contents enumerates some of the principal articles in each issue. The 

 "short articles" mentioned are one column or less in length and are all of great value to the 

 itudent. 



Not mentioned in the list of contents, each issue contains one or two pages of "items" or 

 •brief notes", one column to two pages of exchange notices, and from three to eight pages of 

 advertisements, besides a -'query column" whi..h occurs in m.my, although not all issues. 



VOLUME II. consists of but two numbers. 

 Each contains 3a pages. 



No. 13.— Bartram's Gardens; South Carolina 

 Observations. (G pages): Scientific Names; 

 Gt. Homed Owl; Bank Swallows: Knights of 

 A udubon ; Hummingbird ; R. I. Notes ; Texas 

 Jottings ; ."W short articles. May. '8.5. 



No. 14.— American Crossbill ; Audubon's Birds 

 of America; Illinois Notes; Destruction of 

 Birds ; Cucicoos ; Cala. notes ; Wrens on the 

 Warpath; Golden-winged Warbler; Fox 

 Sparrow; Our Winter Birds; Snipe Creek; 

 Ked-head; V.'isconsiu Jottings; Burrowing 

 Owl, etc. ; A Florida Trip ; Homed Lark ; 

 Queer Homes and Nestinar sites ; Brave Bird ; 

 Ferruginous Rough Leg ; Sparrows ; Pigmy 

 Nuthatch ; '<i6 short articles. June, '85. 



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VOLUME I. Nos. 1. 2. .3. 4. 5. and \1 each con- ' 



U\xa 16 pages. Nos. 6. 7, 8, 9. and lueach contain- 



•M pages. No. 1 1 contains 'S6 pages. i 



No. 1.— Insti-uctions lor Collecting Birds' Eggs, 

 (Sijagos, : Coues' Key; Twenty-four short ar- 

 ticles. May. 1884. 



No. a.— Instructions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, 

 concluded. (2 pages i : Painted Bimtings ; Cala. 

 Mottled Owl; List of Birds Found at Mon- 

 ti'eal ; '.^1 short articles. June. '84. 



No. o.— Maine Items; Yellow-headod Blackbird; 

 Oix'Uard Oriole ; The Slip System; Wilson's 

 Thrush ; Hand-book of Agassiz Association ; 

 33 short articles. July, '81. 



No. 4.— Screech Owl; Importance of Identifica- 

 ti<m; A La. Heronry; Cardinal Grosbeak; 

 E;'gle'8 Nest; How to Make and Use Bii-d 

 Lime; 14 short articles. Aug., '81. 



No. 5.— Bird-nesting— To Collect Scientifically, 

 (3 pages) ; Cala. Birds; From Wyoming; 'Zi 

 short articles. Sept., '84. 



No. 6.— Bobolink. (2H pages) : Sea Birds of 

 M aine : Egging in Cala. Swamp; Old "Put" 

 and the Bird's Nest ; List of Wisconsin Birds; 

 M short articles. Oct., '84. 



No. 7.— Bronzed Graicle; Singular Duel; Fish 

 Hawk : Spurred Towhee and Least Tit; Old 

 •Put" and the Bird's Nest; Bird Island; 14 

 short articlesi. Nov.. '84. 



No. 8.— The Alligator; Collecting In Marshes; 

 Woodcock; 'Our B rJs in Their Haunts;" 

 Iowa Notes ; Redstart ; Summer Redbird: 18 

 short articles. Dec, '84. 



No. 9.— Baltimore Oriole; Texas Jottings; Sap- 

 suckers ; Bam Owl ; American Ornithologists' 

 Union, {'i pages); How to Handle a Gun; 

 Black-capped Titmouse ; Egg of the Moa. Jan. 



No. 10.— Winter Wren; Cala. Duck Hunting; 

 Screech Ow\:Davie's Egg Check List; Pea- 

 .cock with Queer Tastes; White-bellied Nut- 

 hatch; Blue Jays; Spotted Robin Eggs; 8 

 Short articles. Feb., '85. 



JJ I. 11.— iTank Swallow; English Sparrows; 

 Study of Birds; Gt. Horned Owl; Yellow- 

 hilled Cuckoo ; Gambel's Quail ; Conn. Notes ; 

 Intelligence of the Oriole; Yellow-breast 

 Chat; Maryland Yellow-throat; White- 

 Kumped Shrike ; List of Pacific Coast Birds ; 

 Knigii Us of Audubon; Sample Data Blanks. 

 (4 pages) ; 32 short articles. March, '85. 



No. U.— (,'ompletes ['ol. 1. Title pages for 

 binding, with complete and exhaustive Index, 

 (8 pages.) April. '85. 



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Volumes III. and IV. are Bi-Monthly. The 



remaining volumes are Monthly. 

 VOLUME ni. each issue averages 12 pages. 



No. 15.— Full page Frontispiece.— ^//i^rica/i H'a- 

 ter Ouzels and Nest; Chester Island and the 

 Marsh Wrens; Birds of Cortland Co., N. Y.. 

 (4V2 pages) ; A Cheap Cabinet ; Nest of the 

 Black-and-white Creeper; Summer Birds 

 about Washington, D. C. ; Davie's Nests and 

 Eggs of N. A. Birds; Water Blowpipe; 5 

 Short Articles. Jan. & Feb.. '86. 



No. 16.— Vagary of a Collector (Great Homed 

 Owl, Climbing Strap) ; A Hunt for TemEggs; 

 Birds of Cortland Co., N. Y. ; Notes from 

 North Carolina; Whip-Poor- Will ; Nest of the 

 Brown Creeper ; Black-billed Cuckoo Deposit- 

 ing Eggs in a Yellow-billed Cuckoo's Ne.st; 

 Cannibalism of the Red-headed Woodpecker ; 

 23 short articles. March & April, '86. 



No. 17.— History of a Bird-Box ; Tree Sparrow ; 

 Nests of the Green Heron ; Bird Notes from 

 Iowa; A Difficult C)i nb after a Red-tailed 

 Hawk's Nest; Review of the Check-Lists of 

 N. A. Birds, with special Reference to the 

 new A. O. U. List (3 pages); The State of 

 l.Ialne as a Field for the Ornith.<>,ogist; 16 

 short articles. May & June. "80. 



No. 18.— My first While Crane's Nest; Spring 

 Notes; Notes from Chester County, Pa.; 

 Turkey Buzzards; How to Make a Cabinet; 

 Chewink Nests in a Tree; A Cabinet for, a 

 large Collection; 13 short articles. Jy.&Aug..'8fi 



No. 19.— Collecting on Long Island ; Chimney. 

 Swift; A Day with the Luous; llluiois Bird- 

 Notes; Marsh Wrens; A Plucky Wood Pe wee; 



