THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



F. H. LATTIN, & CO., Publishers 



ALBION, N. Y. 

 FRANK H. LATTIN, WALTER F. WEBB, 

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The Birds of Michigan. 



The zoological branch of the Michi- 

 gan Agricultural Experiment Station 

 of the State Agricultural College re" 

 cently issued a list of the Birds of Mich- 

 igan. The work is a pamphlet of 150 

 pages and is edited by Professor A. J. 

 Cook of the college at Lansing, Mich. 

 Professor Cook with his large corps of 



co-workers has presented a very accur- 

 ate and complete list, with copious 

 quotations, to the public. The notes- 

 are most interesting concerning the 

 food of birds, and the habits of several 

 beneficial insectivorous species are well 

 shown by careful experiments. 



The list, which may be accurately 

 called a compiled catalogue of the birds 

 of the Great Lakes, embraces 332 spe- 

 cies, and is the most complete list ever 

 issued in the Peninsular State. It 

 speaks of the meeting habits and move- 

 ments, aud describes the nests and eggs 

 of our birds. No one living in this 

 state or adjacent stales who is inter- 

 ested in our avian fauna can afford to 

 be without this assistant. 



There is, in the front part of the work, 

 a very complete bibliography on the 

 subject of Michigan ornitology, which 

 speaks of all the published lists and ar- 

 ticles from Schoolcraft, 1834 down to 

 '93 A large percentage of the birds 

 treated iu the work, are illustrated by 

 exceptionally good cuts. 



Scolopax. 



Something More About Loon's Eggs- 



BY ABOUT 40 DEGREES NORTH LATITUDE. 



The present season has been a fair 

 one for Loon's eggs and I send you a 

 few more notes on the nesting habits of 

 this interesting bird. 



An acquaintance of mine came to the 

 city with a gripsack packed with excel- 

 sior and Loon's eggs. The lot of eggs 

 were for sale, and were to be sold cheap 

 for cash. One could buy the lot for a 

 song, but there were no takers as we 

 were all supplied. I have five good sets 

 and the other collectors have each from 

 two to six sets. So in this case this man 

 who had collected the eggs for the 

 money, found the market glutted aud 

 therefore "carried his coals to New 

 Castle," so to speak, in coming here. 



