THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY and OOLOCY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



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Correspondence- 



W. H. LaPrade of New Orleans, La., 

 writes : ' * 



' 'I learn from strictly reliable parties 

 that an Albino Bine Jay was killed in 

 Wilkes Co., Ga. There were some 

 small, faint grey spots on each wing, 

 but at a small distance it looked pure 

 white." 



W. S. Catlin of Annapolis, Ind., 

 writes of taking a set of two fresh 

 Ruby-throated Hummers on Aug. 7th — 

 undoubtedly a second set. He also 

 writes of taking eggs of the Turkey 

 Vulture from the same nest, both this 

 and last season. 



R. J. Joslin of Webster, Mass., writ- 

 es: 



"On the 30th of last May, I found, at 

 the top of a high maple tree, a Balti- 

 more Oriole's nest, in which was a set 



of eggs, one of which is most curiously 

 mai'ked. 



Upon it is seen the small and almost 

 perfect image of a bird, which appears 

 to be upon a branch." 



We once took an egg of this species 

 which had "Sin" in plain, bold mark- 

 ings, scrolled, upon the larger end. 



Geo. G. Morrison, Fox Lake, Wis., 

 writes: 



"I have tried to keep the English 

 Sparrows busy for the past few months 

 laying eggs. 



Have visited a locality here every 

 two weeks regularly since May 22d, 

 for their eggs, and always found them 

 very plentiful. 



I got 64 May 22d, 90 on June 4th, 60 

 the next time, 78 the next and so on up 

 to date. If all the collectors would do 

 this, their numbers could be held down 

 much better. Collectors let us rid our- 

 selves and all the feathered family of 

 this 'Bull-dog,' the English Sparrow." 



A Pew Note* on Ornithology and Ornitholo- 



In the migrating seasons the ornitho- 

 logists which live in the Middle and 

 Southern States have much more work 

 than those who live in the north, as, 

 they have to study all the movements 

 of the resident and summer resident 

 birds, and from the last of August to 

 the first of December, they must keep a 

 careful lookout for strange birds, from 

 the northern tier of states and Canada, 

 that they do not pass unnoted. And in 

 the spring the number of migrants is, 

 of course, equally great. Yet the diffi- 

 culty of the study is not so much great- 

 er in the south as might, at first, be sup- 

 posed. 



I believe, as a general rule, the resi- 

 dent and summer resident species, of 

 this section, are not very difficult to 

 study. The Yellow, Kentucky, Hood- 

 ed, Parula and Worm-eating Warblers, 

 and the American Redstart, Maryland 

 Yellow-throat, Yellow-breasted Chat, 

 Golden-crowned Thrush and Louisiana 

 Water Thrush are the commonest re- 



