The Young Oologist # The Oologist 



Comprising together the most popular magazine, devoted to Birds, their 

 Nests and Eggs, ever published. 



Appreciating their value, the publishers have reserved a limited quantity of each 

 issue to supply future demands. They have now, all told, 



LESS THAN FIFTY COPIES OF EACH ISSUK. 



Collectors will readily see the advisability of Completing their Files or obtaining a 



Complete Set at once! 



Back numbers will soon be exceedingly rare and valuable and possibly not obtainable at any price 



»-OCONTENTS9-« 



The following table of contents enumerates some of the principal articles in each issue. The 

 "short articles'' mentioned are one column or less in length and are all of great value to the 

 student. 



Not mentioned in the list of contents, each issue contains one or two pages of items or 

 '•brief notes," one column to four pages of exchange notices, and from three to eight pages of 

 advertisements, besides a ''query column which occurs in many, although not all, issues. 



THE YOUNG OOLOGIST. 



VOLUME I. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 12 each con- 

 tain 16 pages. Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 each contain- 



20 pages. No. 11 contains 36 pages. 



No. 1,— Instructions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, 

 (3 pages i : Coues' Key ; Twenty-four short ar- 

 ticles. May, 1884. 



No. 2.— Instructions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, 

 concluded, (2 pages) ; Painted Buntings ; Cala. 

 Mottled Owl ; List of Birds Found at Mon- 

 treal ; 24 short articles. June, '84. 



No. 3.— Maine Items ; Yellow-headed Blackbird ; 

 Orchard Oriole ; The Slip System; Wilson's 

 Thrush ; Hand-book of Agassiz Association; 

 23 short articles. July, '84. 



No. 4.— Screech Owl ; Importance of Identifica- 

 tion; A La. Heronry; Cardinal Crosbeak; 

 Eagle's Nest; How to Make and Use Bird 

 Lime; 14 short articles. Aug., '84. 



No. 5.— Bird-nesting— To Collect Scientifically, 

 (3 pages) ; Cala. Birds'; From Wyoming ; 22 

 short articles. Sept., '84. 



No. 6.— Bobolink, (2M> pages) ; Sea Birds of 

 Maine ; Egging in Cala. Swamp; Old "Put" 

 and the Bird's Nest; List of Wisconsin Birds; 

 12 short articles. Oct., '84. 



No. 7.— Bronzed Grakle ; Singular D uel ; Fish 

 Hawk ; Spurred Towhee and Least Tit ; Old 

 "Put" and the Bird's Nest; Bird Island: 14 

 6hort articles. Nov., '84. 



No. 8.— The Alligator; Collecting in Marshes; 

 Woodcock; "Our Birds in Their Haunts;" 

 Iowa Notes; Redstart; Summer Redbird: 18 

 short articles. Dec, '84. 



No. 9.— Baltimore Oriole ; Texas Jottings ; Sap- 

 suckers ; Barn Owl ; American Ornithologists' 

 Union, (3 pages); How to Handle a Gun; 

 Black-capped Titmouse ; Egg of the Moa. Jan. 



No. 10.— Winter Wren; Cala. Duck Hunting; 

 Screech Owl [Davie's Egg Check List; Pea- 



' xockwith Queer Tastes; White-bellied Nut- 

 hatch; Blue Jays; Spotted Robin Eggs; 8 

 short articles. Feb., '85. 



Uo. 11.— Bank Swallow; English Sparrows; 

 Study of Birds; Gt. Horned Owl; Yellow- 

 billed Cuckoo; Gambel's Quail; Conn. Notes; 

 Intelligence of the Oriole; Yellow-breast 

 Chat; Maryland Yellow-throat; White- 

 Runiped Shrike ; List of Pacific Coast Birds ; 

 Knights of Audubon ; Sample Data Blanks, 

 (4 pages) ; 32 short articles. March, '85. 



-Ko. 12.— Completes Vol. I. Title pages for 

 binding, with complete and exhaustive index, 

 (8 pages.) April, '85. 



VOLUME II. consists of but two numbers. 

 Each contains 32 pages. 



No. 13.— Bartram's Gardens; South Carolina. 

 Observations, (6 pages); Scientific Names; 

 Gt. Horned Owl; Bank Swallows; Knights of 

 Audubon; Hummingbird; R. I. Notes; Texas- 

 Jottings ; 30 short articles. May, '85. 



No. 14.— American Crossbill; Audubon's Birds 

 of America; Illinois Notes; Destruction of 

 Birds ; Cuckoos ; Cala. notes ; Wrens on the 

 Warpath; Golden-winged Warbler; Fox 

 Sparrow; Our Winter Birds; Snipe Creek; 

 Red-head; Wisconsin Jottings; Burrowing 

 Owl, etc.; A Florida Trip; Horned Lark; 

 Queer Homes and Nesting sites : Brave Bird ;. 

 Ferruginous Rough Leg; Sparrows ; Pigmy- 

 Nuthatch ; 26 short articles. June, '85. 



THE OOLOGIST. 



Volumes III. and IV. are Bi-Monthly. The 



remaining volumes are Monthly. 

 VOLUME III. each issue averages 12 pages. 



No. 15.— Full page Frontispiece.— American Wa- 

 ter Ouzels and Nest; Chester Island and the 

 Marsh Wrens; Birds of Cortland Co., N. Y., 

 (4% pages); A Cheap Cabinet; Nest of the 

 Black-and-white Creeper; Summer Birds 

 about Washington, D. C. ; Davie's Nests and 

 Eggs of N. A. Birds; Water Blowpipe; 5 

 Short Articles. Jan. & Feb., '86. 



No. 16.— Vagary of a Collector (Great Horned 

 Owl, Climbing Strap) ; A Hunt for Tern Eggs; 

 Birds of Cortland Co., N. Y. ; Notes from 

 North Carolina; Whip-Poor- Will; Nest of the 

 Brown Creeper ; Black-billed Cuckoo Deposit- 

 ing Eggs in a Yellow-billed Cuckoo's Nest; 

 Cannibalism of the Red-headed Woodpecker ; 

 23 short articles. March & April. '86. 



No. 17.— History of a Bird-Box ; Tree Sparrow ; 

 Nests of the Green Heron ; Bird Notes from 

 Iowa; A Difficult Climb after a Red-tailed 

 Hawk's Nest; Review of the Check-Lists of 

 N. A. Birds, with special Reference to the 

 new A. ' O. U. List (3 pages) ; The State of 

 Maine as a Field for the Ornithotogist; 16 

 short articles. May & June, '86. 



No. 18.— My first White Crane's Nest; Spring 

 Notes; Notes from Chester County, Pa.; 

 Turkey Buzzards ; How to Make a Cabinet; 

 Chewink Nests in a Tree ; A Cabinet for a 

 large Collection ; 13 short articles. Jy.&Aug.,'86 



No. 19.— Collecting on Long Island ; Chimney. 

 Swift; A Day with the Loons ; Illinois Bird- 

 Notes ; Marsh Wrens ; A Plucky Wood Pewee : 



