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THE OOLOGIST. 



DECEMBER CONTEST. 

 Forty-four Judges- 



1. A Few Notes ou the Tufted Puff- 

 in, 179. 



2. Water Birds of Heron Lake, 145. 



3. The Scarlet Tanager, 143. 



4. Some Queer Habits of Urinator 

 imber, 74. 



5. Some Experience With the Young 

 of the Ruffed Grouse and Bob-white, 

 59. 



The Judges' prizes were awai'ded as 

 follows: 



1. No. 4. E. H. Short, Chili, N. Y. 

 who named the winners in the follow- 

 ing order; 2, 1, 3, 4, 5. 



2. No. 40. H. S. Day, Fremont, O., 

 2, 1, 3, 4, 5. 



3. No. 7. C. Will Beebe, East 

 Orange, N. J., 2, 1, 3, 5, 4. 



4. No. 15. Harold Holland, Gales- 

 burg, Ills., 3, 1, 2, 5, 4. 



5. No. 18. Reginald G. Pape, Mc 

 Leansboro, Ills., 3, 1, 2, 5, 4. 



All prizes were mailed on Jan. 15th. 



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We give our Judges five prizes hav- 

 ing an aggregate value of over $5, one 

 to each of the five whose decisions are 

 nearest the final award of Mss. prizes. 



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