68 THE NIDOLOGIST 
THE NIDOLOGIST. 
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE 
DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF 
ORNITHOLOGY, 
With Special Reference to the 
NIDIFICATION OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
H. R. TAYLOR, Editor and Publisher, 
Associated with Dr. R. W. SHUFELDT. 
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econd class 
More pages and pictures? Why, yes, and more 
than ever about our birds. That is the road we are 
traveling. 
So many compliments on our new cover, etc., fairly 
overcome us. The paper belongs to the subscribers, 
anyway, and is, and will be, what they make it. 
Tue Niporoeist had no forerunner, has no proto- 
type, and will not have a peer for many a long day. 
Watch events and see! 
In writing advertisers do us the favor of mentioning 
this magazine. And we trust those interested in its 
future will mention it on other occasions. 
Tue December NIDOLOGIST is just received. It is 
irresistible to me, and I therefore inclose a dollar. 
G. F. Dierie. 
Toronto, Canada. 
THE Nipo.ocist has received some flattering no- 
tices from Zhe Overland Monthly, Sports A field, Ganie- 
Jand, and other publications, in acknowledgment of 
which we make our best salam. 
WE are at all times glad to obtain interesting un- 
published photographs and drawings from nature 
suitable for illustrations. Notes from the world’s 
museums, jottings, and news for working naturalists 
earnestly desired. 
ENGLISH SPARROWS were nest-building in a cranny 
among the timbers of the Sixth Avenue elevated road 
in New York on the last day of the year. Nothing 
seems to phase these hardy little pests. 
CoRYDON CHAMBERLIN, of Los Gatos, Cal., has en- 
listed in the Navy for three years, expecting the sea 
life to improve his health. His first voyage is to 
Japan. 
THE ‘‘sanctum” has been favored with visits re- 
cently from the following among our subscribers: 
Benjamin Hoag, C. Y. Semple, A. H. Frost, D. D. 
Stone, C. C. Young, George B Badger, Dr. A. H. 
Helme, and others. Ornithologists visiting New York 
should call in and see us. 
Ir is with the regret one feels at the loss of a true 
lover of birds that we record the recent death at Phil- 
adelphia of Dr. William L. Maris, a young man of 
ability and great promise. One of the best of his bird 
papers was “An Acre of Birds’ Nests.” 
A BEAUTIFUL illustration of Snowbirds will ac- 
company an article by Dr. Shufeldt in our next num- 
ber, which will also contain a valuable contribution 
on ‘‘ Unusual Nesting Sites” in Dakota, by E. S. 
Rolfe, a portrait of Mr. A. W. Anthony, and other at- 
tractive features. 
SEND us in new subscriptions! We will turn the 
money into half-tone illustrations such as you have 
never seen, and be enabled to improve in every way 
at once. Mr. W. E. Saunders has sent us zie new 
subscribers. Mr. Oliver Davie says, in sending ina 
new subscription, ‘I think I will be able to scare up 
at least five, perhaps double that number.” Other 
good friends are doing likewise—won't yoz do a little 
in this good work ? 
Dr. ELtiorr Cougs, then President of the American 
Ornithologists’ Union, suggested that in order to make 
the name of this magazine (a coined word) perfectly 
correct, we should knock out an ‘‘i.” It was no great 
privation, of course, to perform this small piece of 
orthographical surgery, and now our learned and es- 
teemed friend, writing under date January 6, 1896, 
writes us: 
DEAR Mr. TayLor: 
I acknowledge the reception of the January Nipox- 
OGIsT, and can compliment you sincerely on its 
marked improvement in many respects, especially on 
the new cover-title. You have happily survived your 
own “black eye,” and are quite handsome now. 
With regards and good wishes, sincerely yours, 
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PAN 
English Correspondence. 
CONGRATULATION, Birps, ANTI-WAR SENTIMENT. 
Epiror NIbDoLocist. 
DerAR Sir: Thank you for introducing to us forty- 
two members of the American Ornithologists’ Union, 
including yourself, modestly vignetted in the back- 
ground. The expressions of all come out well. We 
shall now read any papers signed by them with greater 
interest. The NrpoLocisT appears less wild and des- 
olate, and more warm and rustic in its new garb, and, 
like most other individuals, looks more natural and 
proper with but twoi’s. To-day, in this mid-January, 
the thermometer stands at 38° Fahrenheit—rather a 
contrast to last January in England. With kind re- 
gards and best wishes for peace and prosperity on 
both sides of the Atlantic. Believe me, faithfully 
yours, Wm. C. BLAKE. 
Ross, Hereford, England, January 15, 18096. 
