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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



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To Editors and Publisheks: -We will 

 seuil The Oolociist one year, without 

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 will give it a notice, favorable or otherwise, 

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It is now high time for Southern oologists 

 to obtain their Great Horned Owl eggs for 

 '89, providing they desire them of their 

 own collecting. About the middle of 

 February is the time for collectors in the 

 latitude of the Middle and New England 

 States to be on the alert. 



Oliver Davie's Eggs. Just as this issue 

 of the OoLOGisT goes to to press, we have 

 purchased Mr. Oliver Davie's entire stock of 



eggs. A. complete catalogue of this collec- 

 tion both of sets and singles will be printed 

 in the Feb. Ooloc;ist and will be offered at 

 much less than their real value. We predict 

 a big scramble auiong collectors after them. 

 The time will come when the nanu^ of 

 "Davie' will rank among oologists with 

 that of Audubon and Wilson. What v.'ill 

 be the value of the specimens that has aided 

 him in compiling his great work at thi^t 

 time ? 



On -January 3d, ye editor noted the first 

 Horned Lark for 1889. We r-i^print the 

 following from the Young Oologist of Feb. 

 J 885: 



On January 22d, a bitter cold day, brisk 

 west wind, mercury at or near zero, we 

 rerorded our tirst Horned Lark for 1885. 

 Once, twice, thnce we thought we recog- 

 nizi;x_l his welcome notes, the last call being 

 to much for us, we started in search of our 

 early visitant. We soon found the little fel- 

 low, only a few rods from our oftice door, 

 running and skipping merrily over the fi\>- 

 zen ground, now and then pickii.'g up a 

 stray seed, apparently, in spite of the cold, 

 enjoying himself as licartly as if it was a 

 warm, sunny day in April. On Dec. 1st, 

 1884, while gomg to Wet-t Kendall, we saw 

 four of these birds; we have (jbserved them 

 every nionth since last February; can Ave 

 not soon have them recorded as an ocamonal 

 winter resident in Western New York? 



Although we endeavored to make onr 

 Premium List very plain, it appears that 

 to many it is a \)\\z'Ae, difticult to nnravel. 

 Many have the idea that all offers were 

 limited to the 1st of this mouth. How they 

 coiihi cimie to this coiu'lusioo, we are at 

 loss to understand; for rinht beneath the 

 date line on the tiist page we say in bold- 

 face type " The offers made in this List will 

 hold good tmtil Jan. 1st. 18'1(),' A year 

 hence. Otheis have wiitten to tind out 

 whether they can purchase extra x)remiums 

 or not; while others have sent nsthe amount 

 named for postage only, for extra preminms, 

 expecting to receive an avticli' in return 

 woith fioni 5(!c to #1.( 0, while tl.eamouut 

 they, have sent is only autiicieut to pay 

 Uncle Sam for carrying the parcel from 

 Albion to their P. O. Where and how 

 such ideas and insirnctions can be found 



