May 1890.] 



AN^D OOLOGIST. 



77 



THE 



ORNlTHOLOGlSTAt'OOLOGIST 



A Monthly Magazine of 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



ESPECIALLY DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF 



THEIR XESTS ANi:) EGGS, 



and to the 



INTERESTS OF NATURALISTS. 



Under the Editorial Management of 



FRANK B. WEBSTER, Boston, Mass. 



J. PARKER NORRIS, Philadelphia, Pa. 



FRANK A. BATES, Boston, Mass. 



PUBLISHED AT 



FRANK B. WEBSTER'S 



NATURALISTS' SUPPLY DEPOT, 



BosTox, Mass., U. S. A. 



The O. & O. is mailed each issue to every paid sub- 

 scriber. If you fail to receive it, notify us. 



EditoriaL 



Our Premium. 

 Any subscriber of. the O. & O. who will send 

 us a new subscriber with the subscription price 

 of one dollar and ten cents extra to pay post- 

 agje, we will send them either birds' eggs, 

 stuffed birds, or birds' skins to the amount of 

 <me dollar, by F. B. Webster's regular catalogue 

 price, or if you i)refer, supplies to the amount 

 of 50 cents. .S(/(7/ subscriptions nn(st begin 

 wit/i the current number. This does not mean 

 renewals by old subscribers. Now boys is 

 your chance. 



Send in Your Vote. 

 The lively interest taken by our readers in 

 the change of the common names of some of 

 our birds is just what we anticipated. We shall 

 devote a portion of our space to communica- 

 tions on the subject. In doing so we wish to 

 hear from both sides and from all. Ornithol- 

 ogists like others have opinions of their own, 

 and we think what they want is a free me- 

 dium in which to express it. The 0.»feO. is 

 the place for such expressions and when they 

 get to us there is no committee of suppres.sion. 



Off with the Duty. 

 Your interests as ornithologists demand that 

 tliere be no duty on birds' skins, birds' eggs or 

 specimens of natural history, nor on any 



goods that you require to carry on your study. 

 The McKinleybill, now under the consideration 

 of Congress, does not favor your interests. 

 You have votes, and although small in nvtmber 

 let them count in favor of your interests when 

 you are called upon to cast them. 



Facts. 

 Duty on goods that you are constantly using 

 is not i)aid by foreigners, but is a tax on your- 

 self, and designed to keep the price up on what 

 you use. If you like to dance to that music 

 then go for high protection. We prefer to get 

 all we can for our money. 



Brief Notes. 



Looking over the pages of the subscription book. 

 Vol. VI, the year in which this magazine was changed 

 from the Oologist, we find that there are only thirty- 

 seven names on our present list that were subscribers 

 at that time. They are : 

 *J. A. Allen, J. M. W. 



Egbert Bagg, J. W. Lord, 



William Brewster, Geo. N. Lawrence, 



C. F. Batchelder, #F. H. Lattin, 



M. T. Bogart, W. H. Lewis, 



C. B. Cory, Edgar A. Means, 



A. P. Chadl)ourne, C. F. Neff, 



M. Chamberlain, Austin F. Park, 



J.N.Clark, F. T. Pember, 



William Duteher, H. A. Purdie, 



*01iver Davie, John H. Sage, 



Ruthven Dean, C. W. Strumberg, 



N. A. Eddy, J. Y. Stanton, 



B. W. Evermann, W. S. Semple, 

 W. O. Emerson, J. Trombley, 



B. F. Goss, tF. B. Webster, 

 Delos Hatch, *Jos. M. Wade, 



C. M. .Jones. 



* Exchange List. t Publisher. 



Over a hundred new subscribers were added to the 

 list the tir.st of this year. The great trouble that we 

 have to encounter is the fact that the life of ornitho 

 logical interest is short, we think as a rule not exceed- 

 ing three or four years. 



On Sunday morning, May 4, I met H. G. Collins, 

 printer, with an injured Woodcock which he had just 

 picked up on Devonshire street, Boston. It was quite 

 lively but injured in the head. It had evidently flown 

 against one of the many electric wires which cover the 

 city overhead. Jos. M. Wade. 



While on a collecting trip in the vicinity of Beverly, 

 Mass., April 19, 1 shot a fine ^ specimen of the Pigeon 

 Hawk. If this is a rare bird to this locality, please 

 publish it. Frank A. Brown. [We do not consider it 

 rare.— Ed. 1 



On the 28th of April I took a set of five Albino Blue- 

 bird's eggs from a nest in a dead stump about eight 

 feet up. All the eggs were perfectly fresh when blown. 

 Fred W. Pashley, Forest, Ont. 



Lewando's Dj'C House, Boston, have exhibited in 

 their window a stuffed cat in the act of washing a 

 brood of chickens, part of which are hung out on a line 



