THE OOLOGIST. 



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The .Oologist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 

 Editor and Publisher. 



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J SECOND-CLASS MATTER. 



E. E. H., of Cleveland, O., writes: 

 "In the summer of 1889 I spent a few 

 months in Vermont and ha. I a very pe- 

 culiar find. I was setting by a small 

 creek reading and was startled Iry a 

 bird flying up right by the side of me 

 and looking in the hole in the ground I 

 spied a nest containing four eggs exact- 

 ly like the Wood Thrush in color but 

 not quite so large. I am sorry I could 

 not .see the bird but . my eggs are still 

 unidentified." 



R. J. B., of Minneapolis, writes of 

 taking "albino" eggs of Cliff Swallows. 

 They can more appropriately be term- 

 ed ''abnormal" and are nof uncommon. 



W.L.B.,of Bay City, Mich., sends 

 an interesting account of a day with the 

 Hawks and Cro vs, but as almost every 

 reader of the Oologist has had a like 

 experience, the lack of space forbids 

 our printing it. 



In a letter of recent date our friend, 

 Rev. J. H. Langille, says, "The Smith- 

 sonian Institution has lately purchas- 

 ed, ready mounted, twelve magnificent 

 species of Birds of Paradise, from New 

 Guinea. They are a show in them- 

 selves.'' 



G. N., West Quincy, Mass., writes 

 that Flickers, Chewinks, Song Spar- 

 rows and Robins have been quite com- 

 mon with them this winter, also that 

 43 eggs of Passer domesticus were taken 

 from a single electric lamp in that 

 town last season. 



H. B. A., Manchester, la., writes that 

 large numbers of American Crossbills 

 have been feeding on sunflower seeds 

 in his garden this winter. 



It gives us pleasure to announce that 

 arrangements have been perfected 

 whereby each issue of the Oologist for 

 the year will contain a full page frontis 

 piece, engraved expressly for that pur- 

 pose; also that small illustrations will 

 be made to illustrate any MSS. requir- 

 ing the same, providing the drawings 

 accompany the article and we deem 

 them worthy or of sufficient importance 

 to admit the additional expense. 



The following taken from the Man- 

 chester, N. H. Union records habits of 

 a very common bird, entirely new to 

 the ornithological world. Had this 

 egotistical writer consulted some wide- 

 awake ten-year-old boy he might have 

 been saved the pain of having his ex- 

 treme ignorance exposed in making 

 such an almost unpardonable blunder- 

 ing statement: 



D "Are, you sure? A writer on animal 

 oddities says: 



'The British Cuckoo and the Ameri- 

 can Cow Blackbird never build nests of 

 their own, but content themselves with 



