THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 

 Editor and Publisher. 



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A. M. Farmer says he found the King 

 Rail quite common in Boone Co., lawa. 



The new edition of Langille's, "Oar 

 Birds in Their Haunts" is now being 

 deliversd to abvance subscribers. 



Friend (Kibbe, of Mayville, N. Y., 

 says: — "I took sets of Red-tailed Hawk 

 eggs, 1890, 1891 and 1892 out of the 

 same nest." 



Errata— On page 44 of this Oologist 

 somebody made a bad mess of the word 

 "amateur," we think that both Mr. 

 Mathes and the Editor can spell the 

 word . 



E. L. Haley, of Phillips, Me., writes: 

 "June 6, in coming from Redington to 

 Saunders, down the railroad tracr, a 

 distance of six miles, I found twenty- 

 seven nests of the Black Snowbird,(t/?m- 

 co hyemalis) with (me exception con- 

 taining young. I also found the com- 

 mencement of two rnore nests of the 

 same specie. s" 



In glancing over the pages of this 

 months Oologist, it is self evident that 

 "the boys" are with its Publisher and 

 that if the "tin wedding" volume of 

 this popular publication is not a "howl- 

 ing success," its not their fault. . 



H. Mathes, of Denver, Colo., writes 

 that last season he founed three nests 

 of the American Dipper, none of which 

 were ot green or living moss and the 

 average size of each was about 5x6 in. 



C. C. Renshaw, of Boyce, Va., writes 

 of taking two sets (10 eggs) of Bank 

 Swallow from one hole, on May 23d. 

 He says that the second nest was about 

 4 in. back of the first one, and seemed 

 about one inch higher. 



E. A. Fero, of Cohoes, N. Y.. writes 

 that last October he was presented 

 with a fine Sand Hill Crane in meat by 

 a friend who shot it near that place, 



H. C. H., of Cortland Co., N. Y., 

 writes: "My wife says if the house 

 should catch fire, I would probably 

 save my Oologists first and then come 

 back after the children." 



H. D. Watts, of Compton, California, 

 writes of seeing a "pure white" Black- 

 bird—and Chas. Bowers, of Columbia, 

 Pa., a White Crow. G. M. A., of New- 



