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THE OOLOGIST. 



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 the 

 student of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, soJicited 

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A Valued Suggfestion. 



IJdITOB 05LOGIST:— 



At a recent meeting of the Wheaton 

 Ornithological Club of the Ohio State 

 University, the question of pronuncia- 

 tion of scientific names was raised and 

 it developed that nearly every member 

 Jiad his own vpay of pronouncing. It 

 was then resolved, as a means of bring- 

 ing order out of chaos, to request yoM to 

 take the initiative in the new 1897 Cat- 

 alogue or Handbook. This little publi- 



cation of yoars, beyond doubt, reaches 

 more ornithologists than any other in 

 the country (there are over 20 Hand- 

 books in our club) and therefore would 

 be a very powerful agent in disseminat- 

 ing seeds of pronounciation (to use a 

 botanical figure). What we would pro- 

 pose is this: That the syllables be sep- 

 arated by hyphen and the accented syl- 

 labels indicated, and any other diacriti- 

 cal marks added which would facilitate 

 pronounciation, e. g. : Pod-i-lym'-bus 

 pod'-i-ceps, or Den-dro'-i-ca aes'-ti-va. 

 We do not advocate any certain system 

 but believe that some system is neces^ 

 sary. Accordingly, we urge you to 

 give the matter your careful considera- 

 tion, and we feel satisfied that by so 

 doing you will greatly oblige your 

 many patrons everywhere, as well as- 

 those who are members of the Wheatoft 

 Club. Very Respectfully, 



Raymond C. Osbdrn, Pres., 

 Columbus, O. 



[Until some enterprising or perhaps 

 philanthropic publisher gives us some- 

 thing inexpensive along the line of the 

 above timely suggestion the Club and 

 others may find it advisable to invest $3 

 in a copy of Dr. Eliot Coues' "Check- 

 list of American Birds" which contains 

 a Dictionary of the Etymology, Orthog- 

 raphy and Orthoephy of the names of 

 Birds— Ed.] 



Notes on a Few Winter Residents of 

 Edg-ecombe Co., N. C. 



766, Bluebird, Sialia sialis. I note 

 quite a decrease in the numbers of this 

 species during the past fiew years, ow- 

 ing possibly to the cold winter of 1894, 

 during which many froze to death. 

 Several farmers of this locality gave in- 

 formation tothe effect that as many as 

 20 dead birds were discovered in a sin- 

 gle stack of fodderafter this extraordin- 

 ary cold period. 



The chief roosting-places of this spec- 

 ies are excavations, both natural and 



