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THE OREGON NATURALIST. 



indicates that 

 A prompt re- 



THRORflRON NATURALIST Up to the time of going to press eight 



Portland. For three days a severe rain 

 storm prevailed, followed by snow, hail 

 and sleet; unusual for Western Oregon at 

 this time of the year. The owls came 

 with the snow and vary much in 

 plumage. One specimen was nearly 

 white, with only a few spots and bands of 

 brown. 



A cross opposite these hnes 

 your subscription has expired, 

 newal is requested. 



Official Organ North-Western Ornithological 

 Association. 



JOHN MARTIN, 



EDITOR. 



^ Oregon has a game law that savors too 



Palestine, Strongly of class legislation. It appears 

 to have been drawn for the sole benefit of 



■ — ^ _^ — ^ sportsmen only, and as changes are even 



SUBSCRIPTION RATES: now talked of for the more exclusive 



One Year 25 Cents benefit of the city sportsman, the N. O. A. 



should take a hand in the matter, that a 



Entered at the Post Office at 

 Oregon, as second class matter. 



To Foreign Countries 



35 Cents 



clause may be inserted permitting the 

 ^ — -'-' — = collecting of specimens for scientific 



Articles and items of interest on different purposes. 

 branches of natural history solicited from all. 



Address all communications to 



The Oregon Naturalist. 



Palestine, Oregon. 



December, 1896. 



All subscriptions at twenty five cents 

 must begin with the current number. 



Several hundred subscriptions expire 

 with this number. If your subscription 

 expires, renew at once or the paper will 

 be disconti nued. In November a female sooty albatross 



The following item going the rounds of ^^^ brought to the establishment of D. 

 the press, if true suggests the idea that ^- ^^^'■'•' ^ ^°" ^° ^^ mounted. It 

 Europeans have not wholly emerged from measured 31 in. in length; 85 in. stretch 

 barbarism. "In one consignment recent- °^ ^'"8^ ^"^ ^'^^ captured on the ship 

 ly a feather dealer in London received Brynhilda, when two days sail from the 

 6,000 birds of paradise, 360,000 birds of ^^^^^^ °^ th e Columbia river. 

 various kinds from the East Indies, and November 17 a pair, male and female, 

 400,000 humming birds. In three months of snowy owls were shot near Astoria and 

 another dealer imported 356,398 birds from sentto D. M. Averdl & Co., to be mount- 

 the East Indies." ej^ 



That unmitigated nuisance the English 

 sparrow is rapidly increasing in Portland. 



It is desirable to ascertain if possible to 

 what extent the imported song birds have 

 adapted themselves to their new surround- 

 ings; while it is known that some of them 

 are doing well and increasing in numbers, 

 notably the skylark and starling, very 

 little information can be obtained regard- 

 the others. Mr. Rey Stryker reports the 

 mocking bird as having nested near 

 Milwaukee. Observations on these birds 

 should be kept for future reference. 



