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THE ORNITHOLOGIST AND BOTANIST. 



THE 



BOTANIST 



A MONTHLY DEVOTED TO BIRDS AND FLOWERS. 



Joseph E. Blain, Publisher. 

 WILLA.RD N. Clute, Editor. 



Articles on subjects of interest to Botanists and 

 Ornithologists solicited from all. 



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Advertising rates made known on application. 



If manuscript is accepted the author will be noti- 

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 when accompanied by stamps. We reserve the 

 right to edit all manuscript. 



Address all communications to 



Joseph E. Elain, Binghamton, N. Y. 



Entered at the Binghamton Postofflce as second-class 

 mail matter. 



Vol. I. 



MAY, 1891. 



No. V. 



This issue of the Ornithologist and 

 Botanist is printed with nfew type — a 

 change for the better that our readers 

 cannot fail to note. Our old type, al- 

 though still good, did not make the 

 magazine look as well as we wished it 

 to, hence the change. The present type 

 is slightly more extended than the old 

 and the face is heavier, making the page 

 much easier to read. 



The Correspondence Column has been 

 crowded out of this issue by a press of 

 other matter. All communications will 

 appear in the next number. 



Next to the early morning, the best 

 time to find either birds or flowers is on 

 a rainy day. In the lessened light the 

 flowers are more conspicuous, and the 

 birds, being wet are disinclined to fly. 



This magazine is issued regularly on 

 the first of every month. If you do not 

 receive your copy, after allowing a rea- 

 sonable time for it to reach you, write 



to us; we are always willing to duplicate 

 copies lost in the mails. 



This issue contains several articles 

 that have been slightly abridged, to ad- 

 mit of their being printed this month. 

 Other excellent contributions have been 

 held over, as being more appropriate for 

 following numbers. We are pleased at 

 receiving so many good manuscripts 

 and take this opportunity of thinking- 

 our writers for them. 



If you receive extra copies of our mag- 

 azine, please hand them to someone in- 

 terested in such things and thus aid in 

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 If you know of any one whom you think 

 would like the magazine, send us their 

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 scribers, this month, and would like 

 you to aid us in getting them. 



The wish oftenest expressed by cor- 

 respondents in regard to our magazine 

 is that it might be larger. In our first 

 number, we hinted at enlargement and 

 now we make this promise. As soon as 

 there are twelve hundred names on our 

 subscription books, we will add four 

 pages to the magazine, making twelve 

 pages of reading matter each issue; and 

 this without extra charge. A little work 

 by our present subscribers will run the 

 subscription list up to the desired num- 

 ber and result in our mutual advantage. 

 With a stronger support we .can also 

 make many improvements in the way 

 of illustrations, etc. It remains with 

 our subscribers to say how soon this 

 shall be done. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



The April number of the Kansas City 

 Scientist, contains an article by Miss 

 C. A. Shepard, on "New England Or- 

 chids," that will prove interesting to 

 botanists in the Northern States. 



A peculiarfea'ure of Fletcher M. Noe's 



