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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



CorrespoTKieiice and Items of Interest to the 

 ■stufient of JJirds. their Nests and Efgs, solKilted 

 Irom all. 



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We are desirous of straightening our 

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 scriptions for '92 including all arrear- 

 3iges, at their earliest convenience, the 

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 the above amounts. The figures are 

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 and renewals sent since that date have 

 been credited on our books, but not on 

 the label. 



We have decided that in the future 

 that any person using the columns of the 

 Oologist either for exchange or adver- 

 tising purposes or as a writer of articles 

 appearing on its pages who, if we are 

 satisfied, has in a single instance 

 purposely defrauded or cheated any of 

 our patrons to black-list said collectov 

 in our office — to cancel all exchange or 

 advertising coupons in his possession 

 and to forever debar his name from ap- 

 pearing in columns of the Oologist 

 among those of honest dealers and col- 

 lectors. We shall also print a "black- 

 list" in the Oologist of what we have 

 ■positive proof ^YQ the greatest rogues 

 and to head this role of dishonor we 

 must warn our patrons to have nothing 

 to do with one Wm. Purdy, alias Nor- 

 man King, alias Chas. Norman of Aly- 

 mer West, Ontario, Canada. 



We. are also looking up the cases of 

 several other parties -three in Iowa, 

 one in Maine, one in North Carolina, 

 and others and regret that we may be 

 obliged to publish a few of them at 

 least, in Jan. Oologist, 



A Further Contribution to the Chewink 

 Controversy- 



The Chewink is not very rare in this 

 locality, and has been observed by me 

 abundantly in the first and second 

 weeks in May. They then frequent 

 high dry woods where shrubbery is 

 plenty. The Chewink is very shy and 

 only a very close o!)server can trace 

 them. I was out in the country yester- 

 day, and to my astonishment received 

 from a farmer's boy three eggs of the 



