THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



AMoNTHLY Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



FBANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



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HEO *T TXC P04T 0*riCC at ALIION, R, Y., as tECOHCXLAM UATTeR. 



Chewink or "Chpwee" 



Mr. Editor: 



The April numbor of the Oologist 

 was the first I have seen of your inter- 

 esting little paper, and its popular and 

 unscientitic make up, and style of print- 

 ing the letters of the people, who love 

 birds and I suppose flowers, but who 

 have not probably great ornithological 

 attainments; at once enlisted my atten- 

 tion and interest; and I have read each 

 number since carefully that comes to 

 our City Library. 



These facts may explain to .some the 

 following raml)ling, rollicking letter 

 about the Chewink. 



Each number of the Oologist since 

 March, I think has one or two articles 

 concerning the Chewee or Chewink. 



This fact of itself, to some extent 



measures the popularity of tliis l)ivd.. 

 Have we any other bird in this latitude 

 so well known to men, and so weli 

 liked, or better loved? I say "known to 

 men," because <mly those who go about 

 the woods or forest, are going to see 

 our dear little friend, the Chewink. 

 Ladies will see the Robin, the Blue-bird 

 and the Swallow, and the Tewee, etc^ 

 He does not tlwell in the fields or pas- 

 tures, or come to the garden anil beriy 

 patch. He is out in the woods, and 

 over the fence, and out a space in the 

 woods, and in shady woods, not ii\ 

 clearings. I always from a child likec) 

 all birds, and before I was six years old 

 I was familiar with all the common, 

 birds and their habits in that ])art of" 

 New Jersey, where we resided; knew- 

 the form of the nest of each, and the, 

 material in it, and their locations, num-. 

 ber and color of their eggs, and how 

 often they breed in a season, and their 

 notes I could well, from much practice 

 imitate. 



We removed to Ohio in 1835 when I 

 Avas six years old, and I have never 

 since seen the nest or eggs of some of- 

 these birds; as the Wood Pewee (Musci-. 

 capa sayi) and but once the nest of that, 

 wild bird, whose egg is so peculiar in 

 appearance and looks as though a pen 

 dipped in purple ink, and held by a 

 paralytic hand had been drawn in wav^ 

 ing lines from pole to pole of it. I mean 

 the olive-green Pewee, or Quaker bird, 

 we call it, perhaps from its plain colors 

 and appearances. It is the {Muscicapa 

 ermi^o) of Alexander Wilson. Hut this 

 (Fipilo emberiza). I more than liked,, 

 and while we often like our fellowa 

 from an uiulelinable sometliing about 

 them, yet I think .some of the appear- 

 ance and mental characieristics, ( if 1 

 can speak of a Ijinl's mind) arou.sed mv 

 sympathies and love for the Chewee. 



Now, I suppose a lover, sees beauty 

 where uninterested eyes might ridin 

 ciile, and 1 must thus be excused for 

 avowing my admiration for the beauty 



