The Oologist. 



Vol. XXXI. No. 12. Albion, N. Y. Dec. 15, 1914. Whole No. 329 



Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barne s, Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, III. 



Vol. XXXI. 1915 



With this issue we close Volume 



The coming year is a promising one 

 Thirty-one of THE OLOGIST. We 



have published therein forty illustra- for bird stud ents. We can look for- 

 tions and pages. While it has not been ward with much pleasure to what is 



up to our anticipations and hopes, we 



coming. The Federal Migratory Bird 

 surely have served our readers with 



more and better of its kind than they Law will do much for the birds, and 



could have gotten any other place on , . „ TT „ __,, „„,„_, 



every reader of THE OOLOGIST 



earth for Fifty Cents. 



_, . should assist in its enforcement. 



The articles on the North American 



Swan which we proposed publishing, Legitimate scientific collecting for 



has not been completed. The list of , .. , ,. , . . ,, ,. 



both public and private collections 



the Birds of the Isle of Pines was post- 

 will not suffer.. The camera man, — 

 poned at the request of one of the 



greatest of our Scientific Institutions, that best of all bird students, will be 



and the Bibliography of Amateur Bird 



increasingly active, and the thousands 



Oological and Natural History publi- 



cations is still in the making. The of lo ^ al friends of THE OOLOGIST 



third and final proof now being in pro- will do what they can to make it bet- 



cess - ter than ever. No magazine ever had 



All these articles will appear later 



a more loyal clientele; — there is a 

 in THE OOLOGIST. We regret the 



„ . „ . ,„„„«„ ,•„ sentiment in it that we truly appreci- 



confusion of numbers appearing in . j rr 



this Volume. ate. R. M. BARNES. 



