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THE ORNITHOLOGIST ATSTD BOTANIST. 



THE 



BOTANIST 



a monthly devoted to birds and flowers. 

 Joseph E. Blain, Publisher. 

 ^?VILLA.RD N. Clute, Editor. 



Articles on subjects of interest to Botanists and 

 Ornithologists solicited from all. 



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Joseph E. Blain, Binghamton, N. Y. 



Entered at the Binghamton PostoflBce as second-class 

 mail matter. 



Vol. I. 



JUNE, 1891. 



No. VI. 



During the month of May, single sub- 

 scriptions continued to roll in but as yet 

 we have received no clubs in competi- 

 tion for the prize we offered last month. 

 There yet remains fifteen days in which 

 to canvas for it and our readers should 

 go to work at once. It is likely that a 

 club of less than five will win. The 

 prize is within your reach, try for it ! 



Those who receive a copy of this mag- 

 azine for the first time may have the 

 July number free by sending us a re- 

 quest for it on a postal. 



Until our supply of back numbers are 

 exhausted, we will take subscriptions, 

 beginning with the March number, at 

 thirty cents each. Now is the time to 

 subscribe ! 



This month the Mitchella, or partridge 

 berry, blooms everywhere in the woods. 

 Flower lovers know that the blossoms 

 have a perfume equalling that of the 

 arbutus, but the plant receives far less 



attention. In the shape of leaves and 

 fiowers the plants are much alike and 

 the Mitchella has the added charm of 

 being ornamented even in winter. The 

 red berries, known by the various names 

 of eye-berry, squaw-berry, tea-berry, 

 checker-berry, etc., are brighter then 

 than at any other time. 



Membership in the Gray Memorial 

 Botanical Chapter costs one dollar a 

 year, but, by a special arrangement 

 with the president, any of our subscrib- 

 ers who wish to join the Chapter can do 

 so upon payment of seventy-five cents. 

 Applications, or requests for further in- 

 formation should be sent to the president, 

 Mr. G. H. Hicks, Agricultural College, 

 Jlich. All are cordially invited to join. 

 Besides the Chapter page in this maga- 

 zine, interesting semi-annual reports 

 are sent the rounds of the Chapter. 

 Many of these reports v>rill subsequently 

 be published in this journal. 



In the early part of last month an im- 

 mense bird-wave reached Binghamton, 

 and the white-throated sparrows, which 

 had been with us nearly three weeks 

 unnoticed, suddenly became prominent. 

 There were so many of them that their 

 usual haunts along the streams and in 

 the wet woodlands were filled to over- 

 flowing and our city gardens and lawns 

 became thickly populated with them. 

 Their loud clear whistling at dawn at- 

 tracted everyone's attention and num- 

 erous were the questions asked about 

 the little birds that so persistently sang. 

 "All day, whistling, whistling, whistl- 

 ing, whistling." In a few days the ma- 

 jority of the birds passed on toward 

 their northern breeding grounds and are 

 probably singing, now, in the wilds of 

 Canada. There the white-throats are bet- 

 ter known than here, their song having 

 earned for them the name of nightingale. 



It is one thing to own a library; it is, 

 however, another thing to use it wisely. 

 — Lubbock. 



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