The Oologist. 



Vol. XXXII. No. 1. Albion, N. Y. Jan. 15, 1915. Whole No. 330 



Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, III. 



19 15 



With this issue THE OOLOGIST begins a new year. We begin without 

 promises to furnish either a better or worse OOLOGIST than we have fur- 

 nished during the past year. However, it will be the continual aim of the 

 Editor to get out as attractive a magazine as is possible. We believe the 

 present issue of THE OOLOGIST is one of the best that ever left the press. 



One way to better THE OOLOGIST is to furnish us with an abundance 

 of material from which to select articles for publication. Our copy box is 

 almost empty of articles unaccompanied by illustrations. Of illustrated articles 

 we have an abundant supply on hand. What we are always in want of is short, 

 newsy field notes. 



This is a good time for every lover of THE OOLOGIST to appoint him- 

 self a committee of one to extend the subscription list of our little magazine. 

 It has been a pride and a privilege during the past year to have published the 

 first account of the nesting of one of the North American birds accompanied 

 "by photographic illustrations, and also to publish the first photograph ever 

 made of an Albino Robin. 



We believe THE OOLOGIST will continue to get better instead of worse, 

 and with this issue we present to our readers the estimate of our little magazine 

 as expressed in many letters received during the past year from representative 

 bird students throughout the world. 



It is likewise a good time for each subscriber to look at the number on his 

 envelope and see whether or not a remittance is due THE OOLOGIST on sub- 

 scription. 



With this issue we publish the first photographs ever taken and published 

 illustrative of the nidification of that rare wild northern bird, the Great Gray 

 Owl, including a likeness of the bird itself. In being the first to display this 

 to the world we of course have a pride, and desire to express our deep appre- 

 ciation to Mr. Henderson for the opportunity of so doing. If one or more of 

 the more pretentious bird journals would publish more articles of a similar 

 character and less of some other character, we would get more information 

 and facts and less theory. — R. M. BARNES. 



