18 THE OOLOGIST 
and will remain for years a standard 
work of reference relating to the orni- 
thology of the Dominion. The me- 
chanical make up of the work is a 
credit to the public printing of Can- 
ada. 
The Warbler, Vol. V., 1909. Bulle- 
tin of the Childs Museum of North 
American Ornithology. 
This number of the Warbler consist- 
ing of thirty-one pages and three half 
tones,-is at hand, containing the fol- 
lowing entitled articles. 
Breeding of the Sharp-shinned Hawk 
on Long Island. 
Last record of the Breeding of the 
Bartramian Sandpiper in Maine. 
The Bleating and Breeding of the 
Snipe. 
Long Island Bird Notes. 
The Chat. 
Authentic eggs of Corey’s Least Bit- 
tern. 
Brewer’s Blackbird. 
The Starling. 
Collecting in Northeastern Siberia. 
And a Supplementary catalogue of 
the Natural History Books of Childs 
Museum and Library. 
It is well gotten up and full of inter- 
esting bird matter. 
Would that Brother Childs would 
again resume the publication of the 
Warbler as of yore. We have always 
regretted its discontinuance as a bi- 
monthly magazines. 
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The Passenger Pigeon. 
A final effort is now being made to 
definitely determine whether the Pass- 
enger Pigeon is extinct. The following 
rewards will be paid in connection 
with the plan: 
$300.00 for the first next or nesting 
colony on the North American conti- 
nent; $100.00 fer the first nest in Mass- 
achusetts; $100.00 for the first nest in 
Connecticut; $100.00 for the first in 
Illinois. 
The nests must be undisturbed and 
reported in confidence to C. F. Hodge, 
at Clark University, Worcester, Mass- 
achusetts, and they will be by him 
confirmed at the expense of the donors 
of the fund and not at the expense of 
the discoverers; which will leave the 
reward complete for the person or per- 
sons making these finds. 
All previous rewards for freshly 
killed specimens of this bird are can- 
celled and all persons killing or des- 
troying the bird or its nest will be 
prosecuted. 
It is hoped that bird lovers through- 
out the land will give special atten- 
tion to this matter this season, and 
they need have no fear of the final dis- 
position of such nest or nests as may 
be discovered. They will not be: dis- 
turbed, collected nor injured in any 
way, even if to prevent which, it 
should be necessary to place an arm- 
ed guard over the nest or nests until 
the young leave. 
We trust some of the readers of 
THE OOLOGIST will be successful in 
securing some of these large rewards. 
Oe ————_ 
FRAUD. 
One ‘of our subscribers writes us as 
follows: 
“There are a lot of bogus eggs float- 
ing around and the only way they can 
be discovered is by comparing the sus- 
pected eggs with a series of genuine 
ones. In making my collection I have 
thrown out as bogus, probably a dozen 
sets, and I have refused to accept 
many that I believed were frauds. A 
common case of subtitution is to palm 
off fifteen cent English Sparrow Hawk 
eggs for those of our Sharp Shinned 
Hawks, worth a dollar each. Some 
time ago there were a lot of fraud 
Goshawk eggs floating around, of 
which I have a set or two. I was also 
