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THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 

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JUNE CONTEST. 



Fifty-two Judges- 



Prize Winners and credits received 

 by each were vs follows: 



1. A Day's Collecting in California. 

 212. 



1. Some of Our Visitors and Neigh- 

 bors. 158. 



3. The Purple Finch. 140. 



4. Two Rare Nests. 113. 



5. The Chestnut-sided Warbler. 63. 



6. The Turkey Vulture. 54. 



(As "The Turkey Vulture" received 

 credits exceeding the number of judges 

 we award it a sixth prize.) 



Four other articles received from 4 to 

 17 credits each. 



Sixteen of the judges named the first 

 five prize winning articles, only two, 

 however naming their exact order. 



The lucky judges and the order in 

 which they made their decisions were 

 as follows: 



1. No. 37.— W. A. Achilles, Austin, 

 Tex- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 



2. No. 44. — A. R. Hutchinson, Gaines, 

 N. Y. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 



3. No. 25. — Herbert Sterzing, Austin, 

 Tex. 1, 2, 3, 5, 4. 



4. No. 50.— W. S. Cruzan, Sulphur 

 Springs, Tex. 1, 2, 3, 5, 4. 



5. No. 21. DanaC. Gillette, Barre 

 Centre, N. Y. 1, 2, 4, 3, 5. 



All prizes were mailed on Aug, 2d. 



Iowa Notes. 



I send you a few Iowa notes which 

 may be of interest to some of your 

 readers. First a friend collected 

 a single egg of the King Rail near here 

 aloug the edge of a shallow lake near 

 the river. The egg coi'responds ex- 

 actly to an egg of this bird which I have 

 in my collection. Also last spring, ' 91, 

 I shot one of these birds near the same 

 place. Is not this a rather rare occur' 

 rence? I have found four nests of the 

 Acadian Flycatcher near here, three of 

 which contained eggs two sets of two 

 and one of three. Two of these sets 

 were well advanced in incubation and 

 the other fresh. Two of the nests are 

 very unique specimens. I think, being 

 almost entirely made of dried blossoms 

 of the common scrub oak and suspend- 

 ed between the forks of a limb of a 

 small tree, somewhat after the manner 

 of the Vireos, but being much shallow- 



