THE OOLOGIST 



BIRD-LORE 



For February, the first number of Volume II, contains a full-page portrait of the late 

 Elliott Coues, a list of over 50 prominent ornithogists, residing throughout the United 

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 Notes," by W. H. C. Pynchon;" "The Season's Flight of Crossbills," (illustrated) from 

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