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THE OOLOGIST 



AMonthly Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOCY AND OOLOCY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



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N. Y., AS SECONO-CLAS 



Chewink or "Chewee." 



Mr. Editor: 4 



The April numbor of. the Oologist 

 was the first I have seen of your inter- 

 esting little paper, and its popular and 

 unscientific make up, and style of print- 

 ing the letters of the people, who love 

 birds and I suppose flowers, but avIio 

 have not probably great ornithological 

 attainments; at once enlisted my atten- 

 tion and interest; and I have read each 

 number since carefully that comes to 

 our City Library. 



These facts may explain to some the 

 following rambling, rollicking letter 

 about the Chewink. 



Each number of the Oologist since 

 March, I think has one or two articles 

 concerning the Chewee or Chewink. 



This fact of itself,- to some extent 



measures the nodularity of this bird.. 

 Have we any other bird in this latitude, 

 so well known to men, and so well 

 liked, or better loved? I say "known to, 

 men," because only those who go about 

 the woods or forest, are going to sea 

 our dear little friend, the Chewink. 

 Ladies will see the Robin, the Blue-bird 

 and the Swallow, and the Pewee, etc. 

 He does not dwell in the fields or pas- 

 tures, or come to the garden and berry 

 patch. He is out in the woods, and 

 over the fence, and out a space in the. 

 woods, and in shady woods, not in 

 clearings. I always from a child liked 

 all birds, and before I was six years old 

 I was familiar with all the common 

 birds and their habits in that part of 

 New Jersey, where we resided; knew 

 the form of the nest of each, and the< 

 material in it, and their locations, num-. 

 ber and color of their eggs, and how 

 often they breed in a season, and their 

 notes I could well, from much practice, 

 imitate. 



We removed to Ohio in 1885 when I 

 was six years old, and I have never 

 since seen the nest or eggs of some of 

 these birds; as the Wood Pewee (Musci-. 

 capa sayi) and but once the nest of that 

 wild bird, whose egg is so peculiar iu 

 appearance and looks as though a pen 

 dipped in purple ink, and held by a 

 paralytic hand had been drawn in wav-. 

 ing lines from pole to pole of it. I mean 

 the olive-green Pewee, or Quaker bird, 

 we call it, perhaps from its plain colors 

 and appearances. It is the (Muscieapa 

 crinito) of Alexander Wilsou. But this 

 (Pipilo emberiza). I more than liked, 

 and while we often like our fellows, 

 from an undelinable something about 

 them, yet I think some of the appear-, 

 ance and mental characteristics, ( if I 

 can speak of a bird's mind) aroused my 

 sympathies and love for the Chewee. 



Now, I suppose a lover, sees beauty 

 where uninterested eyes might ridk 

 cule, and I must thus be excused for 

 avowing my admiration for the beauty 



