The OoLOGiST. 



VOL. XVI. NO.'6-7 ALBION, N. Y., JUNE JULY. 1899. Whole No. 155-6 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND 

 TAXIDERMY. 



PRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 

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We want some new Mss. to use in the 

 OOLOGIST — illustrated articles of from 

 500 to 1,000 words preferred. For the 

 best article received by August 20th we 

 will give a new copy of Davie's "Art in 

 the Methods tif Taxidermy." In addi- 

 tion an Emeu's egg — a beautiful select- 



ed specimen — will be presented the 

 writer of each accepted article. 



An apology may be due our readers 

 for the intrusion of the halftone in this 

 month's issue— make up one to suit 

 yourself and we'll O. K. it. One of tbe 

 following, however, may suggest itself 

 as appropriately tilting the case:— 

 Hypertr »phied condition of the origi- 

 nal's bump of egotism; Just for "auld 

 acquaintance" sake— in many cases ex- 

 tending from the early 80's; A resurrec- 

 tion—after a lapse of nearly four years, 

 passed in oblivion or "innoccuous des- 

 uetude" as far as the just demands of 

 the Oologist and its subscribers were 

 concerned. "Pay your money [for a 

 year's subscription to the Oologist] and 

 take your choice," it's immaterial to us 

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In the future the Oologist will be 

 sort of a "Review of Reviews" of mat- 

 ters Ornithological and will contain an 

 Index Ornithologicus of all articles 

 published during the preceeding month. 

 The scheme begins with this issue and 

 all books relating to Ornithology and 

 the Natural Sciences are briefly men- 

 tioned. An extended notice of the 

 more important ones will be made in 

 August issue. The "Index" of all Or- 

 nithological articles appearing in Amer- 

 ican periodicals since January 1 is also 

 printed in this issue — this index, how- 

 ever, is incomplete, owing to the fact 

 that our files are broken in some in- 

 stances and that two or three important 

 publications are not indexed at all — 

 these discrepancies we hope to remedy 

 in our next issue. This new feature is 

 really an exceedingly valuable one, and 

 one which we trust will be appreciated 

 by t he readers of the Oologist. 



