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ORNITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. 8-No. 12 



Change of Ownership. 



After the completion of this vokinie the 

 O. and O. will pass into the hands of 

 Frank B. Webster of Pawtncket. E. I., 

 who will increase its size to twelve pages 

 and will push it as a business venture, and 

 give it more time than we have been able 

 to lately, and we ask for him your contin- 

 ued and earnest support, for no one will 

 continue its publication as we have done. 

 It should have a largely increased patron- 

 age both in subscribers and advertising. 



Most of our readers are aware that with 

 us it has been merely a hobby to fill up our 

 leisure (?) hours and in this way do what 

 good we could for the science. We have 

 had no other object in view, and it will al- 

 ways be a pleasure to us to look back and 

 remember the assistance we have given 

 the boys. It is our innate nature to assist, 

 but never to ask assistance. 



Our duties as an Editor on the Boston 

 Journal of Oomm-eree, and with four 

 technical books in preparation on wool and 

 the manufacttire of woolen goods, and as 

 representative of the Texas Wool Grower 

 in the East, mnkes this course ab- 

 sohitely necessary. We are fifty-one 

 years old, have never sought a vacation, 

 not even for one day, since we commenced 

 a business career in 1850 ; we hnve for 

 many years devoted from fifteen to eighteen 

 hours to business and onr hobby for 365 

 days each year, and it is time to slack up. 



We part with our hobby with regret, but 

 shall still commune with our old friends 

 through its pages, and we sincerely thank 

 all who have so cheerfully contributed to 

 its contents, making volumes VI, VII and 

 VIII invaluable to the coming ornitholo- 

 gist and oologist. 



Birds of Kansas. A catalogue of the 

 Birds of Kansas by N. S. Goss has reached 

 us, which contains a list of 320 birds with 

 a supplementary ]ist of twenty-nine to be 

 looked for. Kansas is well to the front in 

 ornithological labors. 



Migration. In closing Volume VIII we 

 desire to say a good word for W W Cooke 

 of Ripon, Wis., who has so thoroughly con- 

 ducted the observations of the migration 

 of the Mississippi Valley. A work of much 

 labor and honor, and the team of observers 

 under Mr. Cooke deserve great praise for 

 the faithful manner in carrying out and 

 recording their observations. 



Bell's Vireo. We tender our thanks to 

 D. E. Lautz of Manhattan, Kansas, the 

 home of many friends to the O. and O., 

 for a fine nest and full set of eggs of the 

 above Vireo. 



Our Printer. With this number we 

 close our labors with our printer, which 

 have been of the plensantest kind. The 

 O. and O. has appeared regularly, and, 

 considering the price paid, is a piece of 

 work for all to be proud of. It has been 

 printed in a model office, where every man 

 does his duty without "bossing," and 

 " Cooleys Weekly'' reaches its 7,000 read- 

 ers (with all the news and crammed with 

 locals) with great regularity each week for 

 only " fifty cents a year and no postage." 

 We congratulate onr readers on the fact 

 that " Cooley " will continue the printer of 

 our favorite O. and O. 



Notes from Manhattan, Kan. — Four sets 

 of pure wbite eggs of the Bluebird were 

 taken here this season — 1883. 



The Blue Grosbeaks nested here abun- 

 dantly this year. 



April 14th, took a set of seven Crow's 

 eggs. The earliest complete set noticed 

 was March 26th. 



March 31st, first set of Long-eared Owl's. 



At the second nesting all the Ground 

 Robins [chewink] built in bushes from 

 three to six feet u]3. 



June 5th, a Bald Eagle's nest was seen 

 in an immense cotton wood tree. I could 

 not reach it. — I). E. Jjantz. 



DcTCK Hawks. Fred T. Jencks, Provi- 

 dence, R. I., received two Duck Hawks, 

 killed on Point Judith. 



