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collection, we understand was recently pur- 

 chased by him from Mr. H. R. Taylor. Its 

 measurments are 4.40 x 2.60 inches. The 

 eggs are verj' similar, the first mentioned 

 being a shade darker and the pits are some- 

 what coarser and deeper. 



W. H. Hoffman. 



A Double Nest 



Tt has not been my good fortune to find 

 ^ man}' double nests, but the one which I 

 mention is a very extraordinar>' find. In 

 May 1893 as I was out collecting in a grove 

 of eucalyptus trees, my attention was at- 

 tracted by a scolding above my head in a 



tall tree, and looking up I soon discovered 

 a pair of Bullock Orioles hopping around 

 in the small branches of a large limb and 

 was not long in finding a nest about 50 feet 

 up. I climbed to it and found five young 

 birds about a week old. 



In the following year about the same 

 time I was going through the same grove 

 and remembering my last year's nest I 

 looked up and instead of one nest I saw two. 

 A new one had been built about four inches 

 above the old one. I climbed to it imme- 

 diately as I expected to find a set of eggs, 

 but both nests were empty. I visited the 

 nests again and again, but with no better 

 results, so at last I cut both nests down. I 

 think by this and other incidents I have 

 noticed that the Bullock Oriole inhabits the 

 .same localit}" year after year. 



Lee Chambers. 





What others say of us. 



The Avifauna. 



The Avifauna, a magazine devoted to the in- 

 terests of oology add ornithology, is edited and 

 published by W. H. Hoffman, of this city. The 

 initial number, just received, is bright and can- 

 not but prove interesting to those loving the 

 study of birds and their eggs and nests. The 

 contents, among other good things, embrace ar- 

 ticles on Owls of Pasadena and Vicinity, by Mr, 

 Horace Gay lord: The Valley Partridge, by Mr, 

 A. M. Shields: The Blue Jay, by E. W. Currier: 

 The Red-breasted Sapsucker, by Joseph Grinnell, 

 and the Nesting of the Louisiana Tanager, by 

 Ralph Arnold. The illustrations are many and 

 good. — L. A. Herald. 



A well-printed, highly edited monthly maga- 

 zine called the Avifauna, devoted to oology 

 and ornithology, has been issued by W. H. Hoff- 

 man at 544 South Main street. The new jour- 

 nal takes a peculiar field all its own, and prom- 

 ises to be an instructive and exceedingly inter- 

 esting journal of extensive circulation. The 

 first number is replete with good illustrations. 

 — L. A. Record. 



The Avifauna starts out better than any 

 journal of its class which I have seen. 



M. L. Wicks, Jr. 



L,os Angeles, Cal. 



