46 THE ORNITHOLOGISTS’ AND OOLOGISTS’ SEMI-ANNUAL. 
TEN PRIZE QUESTIONS, 
The following ten questions are original with Mr. H. C. Campbell 
of Lansingburgh, N. Y., who offers a prize of one fine egg of the 
European Swan to the person answering the most of the questions. 
We will offer a free copy of this and the next number of the Semr- 
Annuat to the person answering the second largest number. If the 
two persons sending the most right answers send the same number, 
the first prize goes to the one whose list was received first and the 
second prize goes to the other person of course. The answer to each 
question is the name of some American bird. 
1. What some people call taking birds eggs. 
What a bully sometimes is. 
What a prima donna generally is. 
What women like to do. 
What one of the clusters of stars is called. 
What a gaping countryman is often called. 
The condition in which a mad-man sometimes gets. 
What the boys go out for. 
What one of the principals in grinding an axe is called. 
What a mean boy is sometimes called. 
All those wishing to try for the prize will please send in their list 
of answers to Mr. Campbell as soon as possible before Feb. rst, ‘89, 
and prizes will be forwarded to the winners about the roth of same 
month. A list of the right answers and also a list of competitors will 
be published in the July issue of the SzmMI-ANNUAL. 
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EDITORIAL. 
If this number of the SEmi-ANNUAL meets with the success we 
expect it to, the next number will be greatly improved and enlarged, 
and will contain much more original matter from prominent Ornithol- 
ogists and Oologists. 
The July issue will contain a frontispiece, an engraving of some 
€minent Ornithologist and Oologist if possible, together with a sketch 
of his life. We hope to make arrangements whereby we can illustrate 
our work with a few full page engravings of birds and their nests. An 
