THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



AMoNTHLY Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



FRANK H. liATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



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Correspondence- 



W. H. LaPrade of New Orleans, La., 

 writes: 



"I learn from strictly reliable parties 

 that an All>ino Bine Jay was killed in 

 Wilkes Co., Ga. There were some 

 small, faint grey spots on eaeh wing, 

 but at a small tlistanee it looked pure 

 white." 



W. S. Catlin of Annapolis, Ind., 

 writes of taking a set of two fresh 

 Ruby-throatt'd Hummers on Aug. 7th — 

 undoubtedly a seeoiid set. He also 

 writes of taking eggs of the Turkey 

 Vulture from the same nest, both this 

 and last season. 



R. J. Joslin of Weljster, Mass., writ- 



'■On the 80th of last May, I found, at 

 the top of a high maple tree, a Balti- 

 more Oriole's nest, in whieh was a set 



of eggs, one of whieh is most curiously 

 inarKL'd. 



Ui)on it is seen the small and almost 

 ))erfi'ct image of a l)ird, whieh appears 

 to l.-e upon a branch." 



We once took an eg" of this species 

 which had "Sin" in plain, bold mark- 

 ings, scrolled, upon the larger end. 



Geo. G. Morrison, Fox Lake, Wis., 

 writes: 



•I have tried to keep the English 

 Si)an-ows busy for the past few mouths 

 laying eggs. 



Ha\(' \isited a locality here everv 

 two weeks regidarly since May 22(1. 

 for their eggs, and always found them 

 very plentiful. 



I got 64 May 22d, 90 on June 4th, GO 

 the next timei 78 the next and so on up 

 to date. If all the collectors would do 

 this, their numbers could l)e held down 

 much better. Collectors let us rid our- 

 selves and all the feathered family of 

 this -Bull-dog,' the English Sparrow." 



A Few Notes on Ornithology and Ornitholo- 

 gists. 



In the migrating seasons the ornitho- 

 logists which live in the Middle and 

 Southern States have much more work 

 than those who live in the north, as 

 they have to study all the movements 

 of the resident and summer resident 

 birds, and from the last of August to 

 the first of December, they must keej) a 

 careful lookout for .strange birds, from 

 the northern tier of states and Canada, 

 that they do not pa.ss unnoted. And in 

 the spring the number of migrants is, 

 of course, equally great. Yet the diffi- 

 culty of the study is not so much great- 

 er in th(! south as might, at first, be su))- 

 po.sed. 



I believe, as a general rule, the resi- 

 dent and summer resident species, of 

 this section, are not very dillicult to 

 study. The Yellow, Kentucky, Hood- 

 ed, Parula and Worm-eating VVarl)lcrs. 

 and the American Redstart, Maryland 

 Yellow-throat, Yellow-breasted Chat, 

 Golden-crowned Thrush and Louisiana 

 Water Thrush are the commonest re 



