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THE OOLOGIST. 



FEBRUARY OONTEST. 



Seventy-four Judges 



Prize-winners and credits received by 

 >ea-h were as follows: 



1. Some Winter Bird Notes, 321 



2. George Newbold Lawrence, 193. 



3. The Spring and Summer Birds of 

 Central Park, New York, 177 



4. A Letter from John B. Hind time, 

 140. 



5. Watching Flickers, 127. 



6. Great Horned Owl, 74. 



Many of the Judges were at loss to 

 know as to whether the biographical 

 sketch of Mr. Lawrence or the letter 

 from John B. Hindtime were in the 

 contest or not, and as a result only 45 

 gave the former article votes and only 

 44 the latter, hence the number of cred- 

 its received for these articles was indeed 

 flattering, considering that two-filths 

 of the Judges did not consider them in 

 the contest and gave them no credits. 



The sketch should not and the letter 

 should have been considered in the 

 competition, but inasmuch as we failed 

 to make the announcmeut at the time 

 the articles were printed — we settled 

 the question as follows: In awarding 

 Mss. prizes the sketch was rejected, but 

 in awarding the Judges it was allowed, 

 :and the prize-takers were the ones who 

 voted for the tirst five of the articles 

 mentioned. 



The Judges' prizes were awarded as 

 follows: 



1. No. 51— Cyrus Crosby, Crosby, N. 

 Y., 1, 2, 3, 5, 4. 



2 No. 7— John Howe Slater, Web- 

 tter, Mass., 1, 3, 2, 4, 5. 



3 No. 44— Raymond C.Osburn, Van- 

 atta, O., 1, 3, 2, 5, 4. 



4 No. 18— Ed.Doolittle, Painesville, 

 0./l,2, 5,4,3. 



5 No. 8— Fred W. Parkhurst, Bath, 

 N.Y., 1, 3, 5, 2,4. 



The following also named the first 

 five articles: 



jj io— J. F. Parkhurst, Ills. 

 No. 13— Harold Holland, Ills. 



No. 14 -C. H. Dickinson. Minn. 



No. 23 — W. G Coleman, Iowa. 



No. 26-Jay G. Smith. N. Y. 



No. 17— Otto Grady, Ky 



No. 34— Erie Morton, Kans. 



No. 36— Wm. A. Achilles, Tex. 



No. 42— C. H. Finne, Ark. 



No. 45— W. D. Waltman, Colo. 



No. 47-Geo. W. Dixon. So. Dak. 



No. 57— Carleton R. Ball, la. 



No. 71— N. M. Moran, Calif. 



All prizes were mailed on March 1st. 



MARCH CONTEST. 



One Hundred Judges. 



Prize winners and credits received by 

 each were as follows: 



1. Nesting Habits of the Brown Peli- 

 can in Florida, 469. 



2. Scenes from the Life of Alexan- 

 der Wilson, 284. 



3. Evening Grosbeak, 231. 



4. Maryland Birds that Interest the 

 Sportsman, 217. 



5. My Friend, Hairy, 167. 



The Judges prizes were awarded as 

 follows: 



1. No. 6, Robt. McPherson, North 

 Adams, Mass., exact. 



2. No. i ;0, Otto Grady, Ludlow, Ky., 

 exact. 



3. Walton Mitchell, St. Paul, Minn., 



1, 2, 4, 3, 5. 



4. Charles Meyers, Elmore, Ohio, 1, 



2, 4, 3, 5. 



5. Leighton A. Hawley, New Y"ork 

 City, 1, 2: 4, 3, 5. 



The following Judges also rendered 

 decisions identical to the ones winning 

 pi'izes 3, 4 and 5, and to each we award- 

 ed a copy of the Standard Catalogue. 

 No. 33, Erie Morton, Kans. 

 49, Tillman Bibbs, Tex. 

 57, "Collector" Jackson, Minn. 

 67, H L. Heaton, Kans. 

 76, F. A. Colby, Neb. 

 90, Frank D. Weeks, Oregon. 

 98, Harvey Hoskins, Oregon. 

 Twenty-eight other Judges named 

 the prize winning articles. 

 All prizes were mailed on April 7th. 



