THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



AMoNTHLY Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 

 NEIL F. POSSON, MEDINA, N. Y. 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 



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Pencilings. 



In the April Oologist appeared an 

 article on tlie "Family Rallidae in Min- 

 nesota" by Will de la Barre. 



As an addition to that family, Mr. La 

 Barre relates in this number, the occur- 

 rence of the King Rail near Minne- 

 apolis. The taking of a specimen of 

 this bird in Minnesota was also re- 

 corded by Mr. Cook of Minneapolis in 

 the June Oologist. These are rare 

 "takes." 



We often come across amusing mis- 

 takes in a printer's proof . 



When the proof of the July number 

 came before us, Ave were soqjewhat 

 amused to tind the Red-winged Black- 

 bird and Yellow-shafted Flicker posing 

 in print respectively as the Red-mug 

 Blackbird and Yellow-shafted Tickler. 



Let all persons sending queries, write 

 their name (m each, separate slip con- 

 taining a query. Failure to do this has 

 been the cause of so many replies being 

 addressed to "Name mislaid." 



To our contributors: We are now 

 receiving at your hands an excellent 

 class of manuscript. We speak of this 

 because it strikes us favorably and 

 because we desire a continuance of the 

 same. 



It is the constant aim of the Oolo- 

 gist to gradually improve its subject- 

 matter and to raise it to a higher scien- 

 titic standard. To this end, we urge 

 our contributors (as indeed you have 

 been doing in the past) to write about 

 the rarer species and to take for sub- 

 jects those things which are not gener- 

 ally known. Success to you, one and 

 all. 



We have just received a little book 

 entitled "Recollections of General 

 Grant" by George W. Childs. We 

 haven't had time to look at it yet, but 

 it looks as though there was ''some- 

 thing in it." We will mention it next 

 number. 



Just as we are going to press, a 

 "small boy" comes into the office of 

 "Ye Associate Editor" and displays an 

 egg which he found and gives a de- 

 scription of the bird and nest, and we 

 are convinced that it is the Chewml^ 



This is valuable in that this is a rather 

 northerly breeding-place for this bird 

 and this is the first instance of its 

 breeding here. 



It is one of the rarest summer resi- 

 dents in this section. 



The "small boys" of Medina seem to 

 have better finds generally than their 

 more experienced and scientific (V) pre- 

 decessors. 



We have received from E. S. Cheney, 

 artist, Pitrodie, S. D., a number of pho- 

 tographs of dififereut ornithological 

 subjects, such as Short-eared Owl, nest 

 and eggs of Marsh Hawk, etc., etc., 

 which are Avonderfully true to nature 

 and speak highly for the artist. We 

 haven't time to mention them further 

 at present, but we promise our readers 

 an interesting article in next number 

 concerning this latest achievement in 

 ornithology and some entertaining 

 things concerning what the camera can 



