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THE OOLOGIST 



Plover (sex undetermined) ; 255, Les- 

 ser Yellowlegs, male and female. The 

 flight is on — 11 plover in one flock and 

 9 yellowlegs in another. 



September 3d, large flight of Bank 

 Swallows, Semipalmated Sandpiper, 

 Least Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper 

 and Killdeer were in force. 



SOME NEWS. 



The well-known Ologist, A. E. Price 

 of Grant Park, Illinois, is not only the 

 possessor of many of the finest speci- 

 m^ons of the more rare varieties of 

 North American Birds eggs, hut ac- 

 cording to the press dispatches, his 

 farm near Grant Park, produced the 

 best car load of two year old steers 

 shown at the late International Stock 

 Show in Chicago, thereby winning for 

 him the first prize, to say nothing of 

 $8'00 in cash premiums; and the cat- 

 tle averaging 1450 pounds, were later 

 sold to a New York firm for 9c. We 

 extend our congratulations. 



H. W. Flint, well-known as an old- 

 time ornithologist and oologist, at 

 this time assistant cashier of the Yale 

 National Bank ->f New Haven, Conn., 

 one of the largest financial institutions 

 of that State; writes that he entered 

 the bank and the OOLOGIST'S sub- 

 scription list at the same time, 1884. 

 A long time ago. Many of his speci- 

 mens were taken from 1874 to 80'. 



Stanley G. Jewett of Oregon, well- 

 known to our readers, is just leaving 

 in company with W. J. Osgood for a 

 six months trip into the wilds of South 

 America, in the interest of the De- 

 partment of Ornithology of the Field 

 Museum of Natural History of Chica- 

 go. Success to you boys. 



Norman A. Wood, of the Museum 

 of the University of Michigan, spent 

 the months of September and October 

 on Charity Island in Laguna Bay. 



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For the first time in many years 

 the editor failed to spend the Christ- 

 mas season in California. It is not 

 our fault, as we have been engaged for 

 the past month in trying a tedious 

 law suit. Thats our business practic- 

 iitg law — selling wind. An unfeeling 

 court failed to adjourn for the usual 

 holiday vacation. We may however, 

 go later as our desk holds an invita- 

 tion from A. M. IngersoU to come out 

 and experience the sensation of per- 

 sonally taking a set of Golden Eagle's 

 eggs, from one of "his nests" to which 

 he kindly offers to guide us. We may 

 accept, and if so will tell our readers 

 all about it. 



Recently the home of Sidney Pey- 

 ton of Sespe, California, a devoted 

 student of the birds of that locality 

 was destroyed by fire, and with it 

 went his collection of North Ameri- 

 can birds eggs, containing some 175 

 different varieties all carefully pre- 

 pared and scientifically catalogued. 



We extend our sympathy to Mr. Pey- 

 ton and trust that he will not be dis- 

 couraged but that he will again com- 

 mence where he first began, but with 

 the added knowledge that experience 

 brings. And if he does so, his present 

 misfortune will be an additional in- 

 centive in his future collectings. We 

 extend our sympathy. 



Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., of New 

 York, well-known as an ornithologist 

 to all bird students, and at present 

 treasurer of the A. O. U. is mourning 

 the death of his father, which recent- 

 ly occurred. 



