THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 

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Scarcely a day passes but what we re- 

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 ing errors in some form, many of which 

 we are able to rectify ourselves, but the 

 following are too much for us. They 

 will be attended to upon receipt of de- 

 ficiency of address: 



F. H. Brooke, No Address 



Frank Harrington " '• 



Meadville, Pa., No Name 



Mexico, Mo. " " 



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Knoxville, Tenn. " " 



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A. F. Gross, 108 W. 62d St, New York. 



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MARCH CONTEST. 

 Seventy-five (75) Judges. 



Prize winners and credits received 

 by each were as follows: 



1. Some of Our Thrushes. 283. 



2. Notes from Southwestern Ohio 147. 



3. Incessancy of the Yellow Warbler's 

 Song. 128. 



4. Notes from the Virginia Coast. 119. 



5. Zootomy. 75. 



Eleven other articles received credits 

 ranging from 9 to 68 each. 



The successful judges, their recorded 

 number, and the order in which they 

 named the articles in their decisions 

 were as follows: 



1. No.6— O. E. Crooker, Helena, Mon- 

 tana; 1, 3, 4, 2, 5. 



2. No. 53— Alex. D. UuBois, Spring- 

 field, 111.; 1, 4, 2, 3, 5. 



3. No. 12— - m. H. Myles, Hamilton, 

 Canada; 2, 3, 5, 4, 1. 



4. No. 52— Bert H. Douglass, Burling- 

 ton, Kan.; 2, 3, 5, 4, 1. 



5. No. 60— J. C. A. Meeker, Bridge- 

 port, Conn.; 3, 4, 2, 5, 1. 



The above judges were the only ones 

 naming all of the prize winning arti- 

 cles. 



Prizes were mailed the winners on 

 April 25th. 



The "Yellow Warbler's Song." 



The article on the T Tncessancy of the 

 Yellow Warbler's Song," in the March 

 Oologist with its rather startling array 

 of figures proving Dendroica's indomi- 



