THE OOLOGHST. 



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THEOOLOGiST 



AMoNTHLY Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY and OOLOGY. 



FBANK H. L ATTIN, ALEIOH, IJ.Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



ISJEIL F. POSSON, lilEDIUA, N. Y. 



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Editorial Kotos. 



A large ini.-;take was made in the 

 printing of Mr. Merritt'a article ou the 

 Saw-whet Owl in the June number. 



By this error, the compositor pitt a 

 t;iil eiglit iiulics in length on the SaAV- 

 whet Owl Avhen it should have been but 

 three. Witli nn eight inch tail on an 

 Owl onlj' seven and one-half inches in 

 length, the article appeared something- 

 like a rather "fishy" tale. Vv'e hasten 

 to mention this error in detail as soon 

 as we "saw it" before any of the more 

 seientilic ornithologists should begin to 

 ''howl" about some new variety of 

 Nyctnle acadica. {Nyctale acndica long- 

 icauda, perhaps.) 



If tliosc wlio send us qucM-ies could 

 only use a. little more pains, sometimes, 

 in tlieir descriptions, it would be much 

 easier for u.-, and at the same time they 

 would I'e more apt to receive satisfac- 

 tory rep>lies. For instance, we received 

 oiu' query wliich asked us to name a 

 bird tJiat h.ad a red body and black 

 Vv'ings and bill, and did not tcfl us a 

 word as to size, whether it were as 

 large as an Eagle or as small as a Hum- 

 mer. Again, someone vs-anted to 

 know what bird it was that laid an egg 

 like a Field Sparrow's only larger, the 

 nest being like a Grass Finch's. 



A little pains v/otild give us better 

 descriptions and better results, and 

 make the query column more of a suc- 

 cess. 



On the other hand, many of the quer- 

 ies recei\'ed are marked b,y their con- 

 ciscnes.s of description, and it is pleas- 

 ant to ansvicr lliem. 



"What Tliey Say." 



L. Eber, Fairview, Mo., writes of a 

 ''cri})j)led" egg of the Kingljird in liis 

 possession. 



The egg measures 1 5-16 x (3-16 in. 



The shape is very peculiar, it having 

 in tiic middle, a kind of groove all 

 around it. One end is much larger 

 than tlie other, forming a kind of 

 "step-otf" in the middle instead of 

 gi-adualiy growing smaller at the end. 

 The other eggs in the nest Avere shaped 

 normally. 



\V. M. Berman, Los Angeles, Cal., 

 says : 



"During the later part of April and 

 the first part of May, I found in the 

 same h(/le in a sycamore tree, four sets 

 and one single egg of the Western 

 Hotise Wren. All the eggs Avere 

 spotted alike. 



I had to take the nest out to get the 

 eggs, so thej- had to build a new nest 

 for each set." 



W. I. C, KorAvalk, Conn., Avrites: 



"May 0th, I found a Phoel)e's nest, 



attached to the side of a ledge, conlain- 



ino; five Coav Birds' eggr.s 'out not one 



