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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



AMoNTHLY Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY and OOLOGY. 



rHANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N.Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



i4EIL F. POSSON, MEDINA, N. Y. 



ASSOCIATE EDITOR. 



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Finding?. 



"Recollections of General Grant" by 

 George W. Childs, a small and inter 

 esting book contains many reminiscen- 

 ces of the life of that great General and 

 many of his noteworthy sayings. 



It also contains an account of the pre- 

 sentation of the portraits of Generals 

 Grant, Sherman and Sheridan at the 

 U. S. Military Academy, West Point. 

 Its reading matter is highly instructive 

 and entertaining. 



"The Wisconsin NaturalisV pub- 

 lished by Charles F. Carr, Madison, 

 Wis., makes its debut into the world of 

 literature with its Vol. I. No. 1 dated 

 August, 1890. 



It is devoted to Natural History in 

 general and its initiatory number con- 



tains manj' sound ai'ticles covering six- 

 teen pages. 



It evidently "means business" and 

 we wish it the success which a journal 

 caiTied out on the plan of Vol. I. No. 1 

 justly deserves. It is a monthly. 



'■'The American Fish and Oame War- 

 den, and Sjiortsman^s JournaV also 

 takes its beginning with the August 

 number, and hails (as a monthly) from 

 Kahamazoo, Mich., under the manage- 

 ment of E. E. Thresher. Its ten pages 

 are devoted tc the "protection and 

 propagation of fish and game," and on 

 this account, if for no other, it should 

 meet with the hearty support of every 

 true naturalist. It also seeks to inter- 

 est the sportsman. Success to it. 



In the Detroit Free Press of July 3Tth, 

 under the title of "A Feathered Bandit'' 

 is an article on the Crow by J. Claire 

 Wood Avhich is of suificient merit and 

 originality to mention here. The' 

 Crow's intimate knowledge of the 

 powers of a shot-gun at first sight, is 

 brought out, and the article accurately 

 gives many of this wise bird's charac- 

 teristics. 



"Mistakes will hajipen in the best 

 'regulated families." If the degree of 

 regulation of families (so to speak) 

 varies directly as the number of mis- 

 takes made, then we must be a pretty 

 well regulated family, for we surely 

 make mistakes enough. This time it 

 was in the Book Review of the August 

 number and all on account of that little 

 letter r. That little letter which is so 

 misused by being put in "dog" and left 

 off of "car," made the most serious 

 mistake of all this time. In reviewing 

 "Bird Ways" by Olive Thorne Miller, 

 in haste we looked at the name of the 

 author and, behold we got it Olive-r 

 Thorne Miller and then went on speak- 

 ing of the author as he; and all on ac- 

 count of an r; nor did we discover our 

 error until some of our readers called 

 our attention to it. We heartily thank 

 those readers and humbly ask the for- 

 giveness of all interested. Yea, verily, 

 we are a well-regulated family; (and 

 regulated should be spelled with a capi- 

 tal R.) 



"A new use for the phonograph has 

 been hinted, the suggestion having 

 been made that it might be possible to 



