136 THE 
Personal, 
Owing to circumstances over which 
we have no personal control, the Editor 
has been unable during the past sixty 
days to keep up with his oological cor- 
respondence. Many letters remain in 
the file unanswered and much is un- 
done that should have been done by 
this time. We trust our friends will 
bear with us a little longer and in the 
course of a short time we hope to be 
“out of the woods” and again abreast 
of the times, Of all cranks that abide 
within our anatomy, that relating to 
promptness is perhaps as pronounced 
as any, and it is with regret that we 
have to confess that we have been un- 
able during the past sixty days to keep 
up. But this lack of promptness on 
our part is no evidence of a lack of in- 
terest, and aS soon as other matters 
which demand precedence, are pushed 
out of the way, we will again be in 
the game. 
Beige EE SE 
For Christmas. 
The December issue of THE OOLO- 
GIST will go to press about five days 
earlier than common, and will be truly 
a holiday number containing more 
interesting ornithological material 
than any issue of the year, and 
some splendid plates. It is our 
edition that 
will be mailed as a Sample copy so as 
purpose to issue an 
to reach every known bird student, 
fancier and lover in the United States. 
this should 
reach us prior to December ist. As 
an advertising proposition this issue 
All copy for number 
cannot be excelled. If you have any- 
thing which an ornithologist, either 
scientific or amateur or a mere lover 
of birds would want, need, or could 
use, we will reach the people that 
you want to sell it to. 
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Next Year. 
It is our purpose to make THE 
OOLOGIST during the ensuing year 
better than ever. In order to do so, 
we must of course have the support of 
our subscribers. The larger the sub- 
seription list, the better magazine we 
can furnish you. Our readers have 
been exceedingly loyal to the little 
OOLOGIST during the months since 
we took it over. 
We trust their loyalty will extend 
into next year, and any effort that they 
can make between now and January 
1st to increase our subscription list, 
either by sending THE OOLOGIST to 
some friend as a Christmas present, 
or otherwise, will surely be appreciat- 
ed; and will, we trust, in a measure, 
re-bound to their own benefit by as- 
sisting in giving them a better maga- 
zine than ever. 
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About the 24th of March in 1903 a 
friend found what appeared to be three 
Killdeer’s eggs. They were lying sey- 
eral feet apart beside a small pond 
made by melting snow in a pasture 
all 
about in patches on the knoll-tops. The 
eggs could not have been there but a 
near Lacona, N. Y. Snow was 
few hours or they would have frozen. 
Killdeers had just begun to migrate; 
but here in northern Oswego county 
they do not begin to nest before the 
first week of May. For some reason 
the eggs were not preserved—but [ 
saw them then. 
A considerable decrease in numbers 
of cedar Waxwing, Barn Swallows and 
Nighthawks in this locality for 1910. 
Is the first growing less all over the 
Hast? R. T. FULLER. 
