OOLOGISTS EXCHANGE. 



OOLOGISTS EXCHANGE. 



ARTHUR E. PETTIT, 



Chairman. 

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Address all communications to Akthuk E. Pettit, 

 P. O. Box 2060, New York City. 



Entered at the Post Office in New York as second 

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EDITOBIAL. 



Our friends seem to be remarkably 

 bashful in regard to writing articles. 

 They, in spite of prize offers, continue 

 to hold back. Come up and let us hear 

 from yon. Send in some articles. We 

 are running short of copy. 



In regard to offer in our April number. 

 A very few responded to it but those 

 who did made up for the deficiency by 

 the able manner in which their articles 

 were writteu. Mr. Webster of Cresco, 

 Iowa, carried off the first prize a set of 

 climbers strapped ready for use. It 

 was hard to decide between Mr. Baker 

 and Mr. Ingram but at last it was 

 decided to give Mr. Baker second prize 

 and give Mr. Ingram's article honorable 

 mention. 



The Semij Annual is at hand. It has 

 surpassed our expectations. We have 

 seen very few periodicals on Ornithol- 

 ogy which come up to it. 



W. B. B. asks us to identify a Bird's 

 Nest composed of twigs, very shallow, 

 lined with dried leaves and white stringy 

 moss, containing two large pale blue or 

 green eggs nearly round. Since dis 

 covery one more has been laid, making 

 the total three. A brown bird was on 

 nest, larger than a robin. Nest two feet 

 from ground in a White Birch. We 

 answer Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus 

 americanus). 



Shot in Maine, July, 1889, an English 

 starling. 



An Albino robin noted this year at 

 Boslyn, Long Island, N. Y. 



An adult English snipe killed against 

 a New York light-house August, 1889. 



No. 13 shows the character of the man. 

 He has a large lot of specimens, etc., 

 and should a committee be appointed 

 as he requests he would by sending 

 specimens without charge to that com- 

 mittee secure a verdict in his favor. 

 If I am allowed to pick out two of the 

 committee Mr. Mattin may pick out two 

 and the fifth one I would suggest in 

 the person of Prof. J. A. Allen, Prof. 

 Bobert Bidgway or Dr. Elliott Coues, or 

 better yet, submit the matter to those 

 gentlemen alone. They would give an 

 unbiased opinion. 



I hardly feel that Mr. Stone's letter is 

 worthy of notice. The St. Johnsbury 

 Caledonian is a weekly with 1,600 circu- 

 lation per issue ; just 100 more than 

 this "little sheet". Mr. Stone had 

 better return to his original occu2:>ation 

 of sorting out " Pi " and stock news, as 

 he will be better off that way than to 

 seek notoriety by pushing himself before 

 the general public by such disreputable 

 means. 



Again referring to No. 3 would say 

 that in Vol. I, No. 2, it is said " Fraudu- 

 lent Patent Medicine or Blind Ads will 

 not be allowed at any cost, etc." This 

 does not agree with the Ad. of Compound 

 Oxygen, Allen & Co. and True & Co., 

 in subsequent Nos. Compound Oxygen 

 is or was a Scotch Oats Essence sort of 

 preparation and was exposed be/ore Mr. 

 M's Ad. of it appeared. Allen & Co. are 

 too well known to require any further 

 mention and as True & Co. go by the 

 name of Halleck & Co., Portland, Me., 

 and Geo. Stinson & Co. of same place. It 

 is obvious that they are fraudulent or 

 Blind Ads. 



If the foregoing is replied to sensibly 

 it will be answered through this paper, 

 but I would prefer that it be replied to 

 by letter as I do not care to take up 

 space in this " sheet " on such a trivial 

 matter. Words cannot express my con- 

 tempt for a man, who when he is told 

 the truth, in reply heaps up a lot 

 of misstatements and assumes a be- 

 ligerent attitude thinking that he can by 

 this means suppress the informant. 



Akthuk Pettit. 



July 16,1889. 



The stomach of a female pigeon hawk 

 (Falco columbarius) shotatNyack, N. Y. , 

 August 10, 1889, contained "the tongue, 

 portions of backbone and a few feathers 

 of some small bird. 



