THE NIDIOLOGIST 



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In a recent letter Dr. Shufeldt explains how he 

 happened to state that the white pelican lays but 

 a single egg. It was a slip of course and was 

 taken from page 722 of Cones' Key of !8S4. 



The NIDIOLOGIST. Lark. During the past year I had positively Iden- 



tified 182 birds, and with notes and captures of 



AN ILLUS7'KATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE others, my list shows 202. How is that for a 



DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF year's work while going to school? — W. S. Colvin, 



ORNITHOL/OGY Ossawatomie, Kansas. 



With Special Reference to the 



NiDiFiCATiON OF NoRTH AMERICAN BiRDs. Those coi^ored PLATES are " out of sight," 



but then the whole paper is on the same lines. 



H. R. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher. Keep up the good work.— Z?r. ^. C. MurcJiison, 



'-, I 7. Kewanee. III. 



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(Terms, Cash with Order.) /'^ N June 24, 1S94, I visited Pacific Beach, San 



I page (outside, 17 inches) Each Insertion, $10 00 I 1 Diego couiity, in search of Snowy Plover's 



I page (inside). ;| ;; 800 ■ f eggs. I had only walked a short distance 



54 page (8J4 inches) 4 00 ^ J °° 1 r i j . • r , 1 



Per inch " " 100 over a much frequented portion of the 



beach when a Snowy Plover was observed 



Entered at the Alameda Post-office as second class matter. running Over the Sand with outstretched wings 



and distressing gait, endeavoring to lead nie from 

 a set of three nice eggs which were in a slight 

 depression on a sandy knoll. 



While examining the eggs, I was startled by a 

 peculiar alarm cry, quite unlike any note of the 

 usually silent Snowy Plover. On looking up I 

 saw that a strange bird had arrived and was as- 

 sisting Mrs, Snowy in her efforts to distract my 

 attention from her treasures; he followed her 

 around and chirped out lots of advice or words of 

 sympathy as she dragged herself along with 

 drooping wings and body, on the sand. He was 

 the most talkative Plover I ever met and could not 

 have shown more solicitude had he been the right- 

 ful owner of the eggs. He continued his cry of 

 disapproval long after I left the emptied nest; ran 

 ahead eighty or a hundred feet and kept at about 

 that distance until we had gone up the beach 

 nearly a quarter of a mile. Then he took wing 

 and disappeared in opposite direction. I searched 

 over same ground on my return a few hours later, 

 but did not see him. 



I made another trip to the beach on June 29, 

 especially to hunt for this bird and its eggs. I 

 found him within a hundred feet of his old quar- 

 ters, in company with three Snowy Plovers. He 

 ran ahead of me as on former occasion, but only 

 uttered a few notes and did not seem as much dis- 

 turbed by my presence. I watched him for up- 

 wards of three hours, not seeing any other Plovers 

 of same species, I came to the conclusion that it 

 was probably an unmated bird, and sent a charge 

 of number twelve after the onl}' Wilson's Plover 

 ever seen in this state. It proved to be a male in 

 good condition save for a scalp wound received in 

 some unknown way since the 24th instant. The 

 scalp had been cut or torn and becoming dry, 

 curled forward with feathers attached, making a 

 crested and bald-headed Plover out of the same 

 bird. There was an oblong place one-fuurth of an 

 inch wide on the back of its skull which was en- 

 tirely free from skin, the edge of surrounding skin 

 having dried tight to the bone on three sides. I 

 believe the injury would not have proved fatal. 



A. M, Ingersoll. 



Removal to New York City 



The rapid growth of this magazine has neces- 

 sitated the removal of its publication office to New 

 York City where the editor now is. Three-fourths 

 of our subscribers are east of the Mississippi 

 River, so that the metropolis will be more central 

 for us, and more congenial to the majority of our 

 readers, while affording superior facilities in pub- 

 lishing a first class illustrated magazine of Orni- 

 thology and Oology. 



But we shall by no means forget our friends 

 of the West, who will continue to give us the re- 

 sults of their observations in an interesting field. 

 As in the past, we shall publish the reports of the 

 Cooper Ornithological Club, representative of 

 scientific activity on the Pacific Coast. 



Hereafter address all communications and re- 

 mittances to the permanent office 

 150 Fifth Street, 



New York City. 

 Where, by-the-by, we shall be most pleased at 

 any time to meet our subscribers and bird students 

 in general. 



I AM SATISFIED that in its literature and illus- 

 trations The NIDIOLOGIST far surpasses any pub- 

 lication of the kind in the world. — -Jas. B. Purdy, 

 Plyinoutk, Mich. 



The FIRST BIRD seen for '95 was a Horned 



