THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. * 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondence and items of interest to the 

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 to each of the five whose decisions are 

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JULY CONTEST 

 64 Judges. 



1. Passenger Pigeon, 276. 



2. Dove Life in Ai'izona, 217. 



3. Bell's Vireo, 168. 



4. Notes from Audubon's Biogra- 

 phy, 156. 



5. Language of Crows and Other 

 Notes, 68. 



Judges' prizes were awarded as fol- 

 lows: 



1. Ed. Doolittle, Painesville, Ohio. 

 Exact. 



2. Walton Mitchell, St. Paul, Minn., 

 1, 2, 4, 3, 5. 



3. N. G. Van De Water, Gretna, N. 

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



4. B. A. Garrett, Ballston Spa., N. 

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



5. Arthur P. Simmons, Troy, N. Y., 

 1, 2, 4, 3, 5. 



The following Judges named the 

 winning articles in exactly the same or- 

 der as the last, hence we awarded each 

 a fifth prize: 



H. Gould Welborn, Lexington, N. C. 



Hervey Hoskins, Newberg, Oregon. 



Twenty-one other Judges named the 

 winning articles. 



All prizes were mailed the winners 

 on Augr. 11. 



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 68 •• •• " •■ Dec. " 



68 ,' " " " June, 1891 



74 " " •' " Dec. " 



80 " " '.' " June, 1892 



86 " " " " Dec. " 



93 " " " •' June. 1893 



98 " " •• " Dec. ' " 



104 " " " " June 1894 



110 " " " will expire Dec. " 



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