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THE OOLOGIST. 



the button," and sparrows coming and 

 falling by the dozens. The scheme has 

 yet to be tested. 



C. D. M., Cinti., Ohio.— The Cowbird, 

 Red-winged Blackbird, Bronzed Grakle 

 and Am. Crow are common in Southern 

 Ohio. 



The Ann Arbor taxidermist, Mr. A. 

 B. Covert, of Kirtland Warbler fame, 

 has been so busy on work in the Univer- 

 sity for the past few months that he has 

 been unable to put in his usual amount 

 of held work this spring. A few days 

 since, however, he writes of collecting 

 a day for the U. of M. Museum and 

 mentions the taking of thirteen war- 

 blers, twelve different species. 



A photo of a Moose just mounted for 

 the University by Friend C. speaks vol- 

 umes as to his rank as an artist in 

 the profession. 



To many correspondents desiring de- 

 scriptions, measurements, etc., etc., of 

 the eggs of various species, we must re- 

 fer them to Davie's "Nests and Eggs of 

 North American Birds." Were we to 

 attempt to answer all the queries of 

 this nature that we receive it would re- 

 quire the entire space of several issues 

 of the OOLOGIST. 



H. S. D., Fremont, O., writes of tak- 

 ing sets of two eggs of the Mourning 

 Dove from the same nest on April 19th, 

 April 26th, May 1st and a single egg on 

 May 6th. 



The following corrections should be 

 made in Mr.' F. L. Farley's "Birds of 

 Elgin Co., Out.," which appeared in 

 the last issue of the Oologist. 



No. 176. Winter Wren, "appear in 

 small flocks," should be "small num- 

 bers," and No. 183. Hermit Thrush, 

 ■"shot one in Dec. 13, 1878," should be 

 "1888." 



Several errors also appeared in Mr. 

 M. C. White's article on "The Whip- 

 poorwill." The most glaring of which, 

 were as follows: 



In the quotation at the beginning, 

 third verse, third line, the word when 

 should be where. In second column, 

 fourth line, "Chick-hoo-rhee" is a mis- 

 representation of Mr. Langille, the h in 

 the second syllable should be k. Four- 

 teenth line of same column, the word 



seen, which is entirely omitted, should 

 follow the word never. In first column, 

 eighteenth line, the omission of s in 

 "syllable" causes a double error;- it 

 should be syllables. 



Errors also occurred in spelling, etc., 

 as Mr. W's. Mss. was faultless, the poor 

 printer and proof reader must be given 

 full credit. 



C. A. H., Mt. Pleasant, Mich., writes: 

 "A week or two ago I noticed a bird 

 fly into one of the electric street lamps 

 here. Yesterday I got permission to 

 let the lamp down and there, on the 

 switch board, I found a nest of the 

 English Sparrow. The nest contained 

 two fresh eggs. It doesn't seem that a 

 bird would build its nest in such a 

 place; as the lamp has 'to be lowered 

 and raised every day." 



C. E. Brown, of Beverly, Mass., 

 writes: 



"In reply to "Aix Sponsa's" article in 

 Feb. '91, Oologist, I would state that 

 the robbing of birds' nest by boys is 

 also a nuisance in this part of the 

 country, and ought to be suppresed. 

 In this State it is almost impossible to 

 get a permit to collect for scientilic pur- 

 poses. Now it seems to me that a man 

 wishing to collect for scientilic purposes 

 should be allowed a permit by proving 

 that it is a scientilic purpose that' he is 

 collecting for. I also think that if per- 

 mits were granted to this class that 

 they would help to stop the destruction 

 of nests and eggs, as they would then 

 feel that they were not law breaking 

 themselves, and had some authority to 

 speak on the subject. Who is. more in- 

 terested in the protection of the birds 

 than the true ornithologist and natural- 

 ist? And they do not feel like trying to 

 stop the small boy from robbing nests 

 at the cost somtime of exposing them- 

 selves. In this section there are plenty 

 of people that would be more pleased 

 to catch a man taking birds and eggs, 

 whether for scientilic purposes or not 

 and report him than they would a boy 

 robbing; a nest for fun." 



A Trip to Pelican Island. 



The morning of February 17, '91, six 

 of us set out in the yacht Lida for Peli- 

 can island on which was quartered a 

 large colony of Brown Pelicans. This 



