THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondence and Items of Interest to tlie 

 student o£ Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited 

 from all. 



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Yellovr-throated Yireo. 



FRrEKD LaTTIN: 



As good a journal as is your Oolo- 

 gist, it has, nevertheless, its defects. 



I supposed that there was no North 

 American bird that had not at some 

 lime or other been written about in the 

 columns of ihe Oologist. but 1 was 

 very much surprised last night to find 

 that from Vol. I, No. 1 of the Young 

 Oologist down to date, it has never con- 

 tained an article on the Yellow-throat- 

 ed Vireo. Now why is this? Isn't there 

 anyone who knows enough about this 

 pretty bird to write an article about it 

 for the Oologist? I wish you would 

 please have this matter attended to, 

 and for my own especial benefit, have 

 someone write such an article. I want 

 to know more about this bird. 



Before closing I will tell you about 

 the queer and unusual nesting-site of a 

 pair of these birds. I took a nest con- 

 taining four eggs and one of the Cow- 

 bird on Thursday last. The nest was 

 in a small eliu, which happened to be 

 growing right in the midst of our foun- 

 dry plant, with the noisy turmoil of 

 machinery and workingmen on every 

 hand. Close on one side of the nest is 

 a wagon-road, over which heavy team- 

 ing of coke and iron is almost constant- 

 ly being done, while on the other side, 

 and within a few feet is the pipe store- 

 house where cast-iron pipe is being 

 blacked and piled all day with consid- 

 erable noise, and where workingmen 

 are continually passing to and fro right 

 near the nest. Yours quite materially» 

 Neil F. Posson. 

 Medina, N. Y., June 9, '96. 



P. S. Saw a Yellow- breasted Chat 

 Memorial Day. 



Notes on the Yellow-billed Magpie. 



The Yellow-billed Magpie is a com- 

 mon bird throughout California, and is 

 resident wherever found, never migrat- 

 ing' to any extent, although in winter a; 

 few will straggle a few miles from the 

 plains into the foothills, but never for 

 any length of time. They frequent the 

 level plains and valleys of California, 



