THE OOLOGIST. 



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has thought it best to ask you to act as one 

 of the judges. Write on a postal card, ac 

 any time before April 20th, the titles of the 

 thi-ee articles which yon considered the 

 vwxt valuable, inxtructive, and mtere^ting 

 in the Oologist which apjjeared iu the 

 1888 issues, May to November, inclusive. 



Send in your postals at once, as the result 

 must be announced in the next Oologist. 

 The writers of the two articles receiving 

 the greatest number of votes will receive 

 $5.00 worth of Job Lots; the next two will 

 receive $3.00 worth; and the next two 

 #3.00 worth. 



We think the competitors will agree with 

 us in thinking the most fair method of 

 making the awards. 



Prize Contest. 



The following were the lucky winners of 

 the prizes awarded the purchasers of 

 Davie's Eggs. Contest closed March 15th 

 and prizes awarded to the lucky winners 

 on March 25th, Every contestant received 

 a prize, and 35 prizes were not taken on 

 account of lack of contestants: 



1 Walter Kaine, Toronto, Can. $27.34 



2 Geo. Schoen, Kansas City, Mo. 17.00 



3 F. E. Shoup, Sewauee, Tenn. 12.45 



4 Chas. E. Doe, Providence, E. I. 12.00 



5 Salome Oldershaw, Brooklyn, N.Y.3.88 



6 Will A. Moore, Norwalk, Ohio. 3.35 



7 A. Kennedy Ash worth, 



Pittsbxirg, Pa. 2.00 



8 Everett G. Duucklee, 



Brockton, Mass. 2.00 

 Not enough orders amounting to $2.00 

 or over were received to take prize Nos. 

 9 to 25. 



26 Eddie 0. Fero, Cohoes, N. Y. 1.70 



27 Wm. I. Comstock, Norwalk, Conn. 1.26 



28 E. H. Douglas, Burlington, Kan. 1.25 



29 Will Eoberts, Ottawa, Kan. 1.20 



30 Maurice Smith, Ohio, Ills. 1.10 



31 L. 0. Dart, Litchfield, Minn. 1.10 



32 S. C. Crump, West Bay City, Mich. 1.0.5 



33 D. W. Eaymond, Norwalk, Conn. 1.05 



34 F. A. Benson, Burlington, Li. 1.04 



35 E. H. Moth, Kenosha, Wis. 1.00 



36 S. A. Taft, Aiken, So. Car. 1.00 



Not enough orders of $1.00 and over to 

 take prizes 37 to 40. 



41 Geo. L. Alverson, Marengo, la. .90 



42 C. J. Mitchell, Shelby ville, Ky. .88 



43 Hey ward Loug, Martins Ferry, Ohio. 80 



44 Arthur F. Stone, St. Johnsburg, Vt. .88 



45 John Williams, Wenham, Mass. .69 



46 P. H. Hadlock, Wenham, Mass. .68 



47 Geo. M. Lincoln, Malone, N. Y. . 65 



48 C. H. Eemmington, Brooklyn, N.Y. .60 



49 C. B. Aiken, Vineland, N. J. .51 

 Not enough orders of 50c and over 



were received to capture prizes No. 50 to 

 60. 



From '' Old Virginny. '' 



I have read with the greatest interest the 

 articles on birds from nearly every State, 

 but noticed that few, if any, were from 

 '• Old Virginny." Therefore, I will write 

 a short article, with the hope that it will 

 not escaipe the waste basket, from this 

 section. 



The first birds that breed here are the 

 Hawks, Owls and Crows; next come the 

 Pieidm; Nuthatches are among the first. 

 But I feel constrained to stop here and 

 relate the experience of a pair (or rather 

 our experience with them) that built in our 

 school yard : I located the nest on April 

 7th, and on April 12th climbed up to take 

 the eggs. We had the misfortime to break 

 the only egg in the nest, while enlai-ging 

 the hole in the tree large enough to admit 

 my hand. After waiting five days longer 

 we took a set of three eggs, and five days 

 after, another set of 3 eggs, but still they 

 stuck to their nest; so our better natures 

 appealing in their behalf, we allowed them 

 to hatch and rear four young ones un- 

 molested. Making the whole number of 

 egg laid by one pair to be eleven. Is not 

 this a rare occurrence ? There are not 

 many birds that breed in April, biit in May 

 every bird builds its nest ; the gi-eater part 

 iu the latter i^art. I took tw(5 sets of Whip- 

 poor-will's eggs on May 25th, which is 

 a lucky occurrence in this section, for they 

 are very rare. If I would take every 

 Catbird, Robin and Sparrow's nest I find, 

 I would have enough to stock the State. 

 Scarlet Tanagers arrived here about two 

 or three years ago and are now very 

 plentiful. 



Samttel Parsons, Jk. , Louisa C. H., Va. 



