THE IOWA ORNITHOLOGIST. 



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time to compile them. Mr. 

 Searles is doing- a larg-e business 

 in the Taxidermical line. He 

 anticipates taking- a trip in the 

 Dakota's this spring-, collecting- 

 birds. He expects to start early 

 in April and to remain about six 

 weeks. 



We are in receipt of No's. 1, and 

 2, Vol. 1. of the Museum^ a 36 

 pag-e monthly mag-azine, edited 

 by W. F. Webb, Albion, N. Y. 

 It is "devoted exclusively to re- 

 search in Natural Science", al- 

 thoug-h nearly one-half of these 

 numbers are devoted to ornithol- 

 og-y. This mag-azine is worth 

 much more than the subscrip- 

 tion price, which is only $1.00 

 per annum. It will certainly 

 receive the support of all lovers 

 of nature. 



Guy C. Rich, of Sioux City, la., 

 writes of having- added a few nev/ 

 names to his private list of birds 

 found in his neig-hborhood. The 

 latest are; 



Least Bittern — Botauriis exilis. 

 Glossy Ibis — Flcij^adis autiimualis. 

 Red-shafted Flicker 



— Colaptes cafcr. 

 Double-crested Cormorant 



— Plialacrocorax dilophus. 

 Pig-eon Havv^k — Falco colninbariits. 



He asks, is it common to find 



the Red-shafted Flicker in this 

 stiite? He shot one in September 

 1894, It was in g-ood plumag-e. 

 (I think that this is the first 

 record of Colaptes cafcr being- 

 found in Iowa. — Ed.) 



A New Scheme. — We have just 

 entered upon a New Year. The 

 old year-1894-is now a thing- of 

 the past. Yet doubtless all of 

 us enjoy meditating- upon the 

 many blessing-s - the rare finds in 

 the ornitholog-ical field, as well 

 as the numberless others - that 

 God so bountifully outpoured 

 upon us during- the past year. 



The old saying- is that, "a 

 pleasure shared is, a pleasure 

 doubled", hence the Editor's 

 scheme is that each active mem- 

 ber of the I. O. A, write an 

 account of his rarest find in the 

 ornitholog-ical and oolog-ical field, 

 for 1894. We want you to write 

 the same on the back of a postal 

 card or on a sheet of paper, -only 

 writing- on one side of the paper- 

 and mail to the Iowa Ornithol- 

 ogist, before the 15th of Febru- 

 ary. Give the article a short 

 suitable heading- and at the end 

 sig-n your name and address. 

 These articles will be published in 

 the Iowa Ornithologist under 

 the heading- of "General Notes of 

 Interest." 



