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We hope that a number of our readers 

 will follow out the suggestion made by 

 Professor Lloyd in h^s article on "Wood in 

 Wells". All questions, we are sure, will 

 be cheerfully answered by him. 



About four pages of the work of the N. O. 

 A., owing to its late arrival and a desire to 

 print it entire, was unavoidably left over for 

 next month from lack of space. The number 

 of pages of the Oregon Naturalist will be 

 doubled just as soon as its :ecei]3ts will permit. 

 There is not much money behind it, but it is 

 conducted on business principles, and it is self 

 sustaining. Although its cnxulation is large 

 for a paper of this class, yet it is not sufficiently 

 large to warrant an increase of pages. If all 

 of its friends, who think it is worth the sub- 

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"The Stamp Collectors Hand-Book. A 

 lexicon of terms and hints to philatelists," by 

 Chas. W. Egan, and edited by Clifford W. 

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"Taylor's Standard American Egg Catalogue, 

 conforming to the Nomenclature of the New A. 

 O.U. Check -List." Compiled by H. R. Taylor, 

 with the assistance of eleven Oologists. Gives 

 valuation of nests for exchange, and a j^artial 

 list of introduced species. 



N. O. A. 



In our work for the last few months we have 

 continually been compelled to face I his object- 

 ion in the study of our birds, viz: that in all 

 the works on Ornithology, that we have access 

 to, and that includes all the principal ones, we 

 are unable to positively identify the birds of 

 some families from the sub-species of those 

 families. We have decided that the only 

 method we have of finally ovei-coming tliis 

 difficulty is to bring together a series of skins of 

 those birds, and establish for ourselves the 

 difference between them if there is any. We 

 have therefore determined to form a collection 

 of skins to be the properly of the N. O. A, 

 We cannot expect to accomplish anything 

 definitely very soon, nor maybe in quite a 

 time to come, but if the plan is carried out 

 there will be a time when we can accomplish 

 our purpose. 



We du not expect to acquire skins very fast 

 because at present, it is merely a voluntary 

 offering on the part of our members, and 

 others, but it is hoped each will take an 

 interest now and then if they come across a 

 skin that they feel like don.ating to a good 

 cause, we will be glad to receive it. Each 

 sl«n ought to have the sex, where collected, 

 by whom, and the date if possible. We have 

 a good start, and any skin may he sent to the 

 secretary or president, and will be gratefully 

 received. The work of the N. O. A., for the 

 next few months, will be on the Wood']ieckers. 



Wl[,LIA.M L. EiNLEY. 



