108 THE NIDOLOGIST 
THE NIDOLOGIST. 
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE 
DEVOTED SOLELY TO 
ORNITHOLOGY 
With Special Reference to the 
NIDIFICATION OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 
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THE NIDOLOGIST greets its many subscribers 
from its old home and birthplace, in the far West, 
where it will henceforth be published. While, as 
in the past, it will reflect monthly the doings and 
interesting experiences of Oologists and Ornitho- 
logists the country over, it is believed it will have 
an added interest in hailing from such an ideal 
field for collecting and observation. 
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LEVERETT M. Loomis, curator of Ornithology in 
the California Academy of Sciences is preparing a 
bibliography of Californian Ornithology, chrono- 
logically arranged, and with careful annotations. 
It will be published by the Academy and will be 
welcomed as a valuable contribution by working 
Ornithologists. 
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JOSEPH GRINNELI,, of Pasadena, Cal., is ona 
three months collecting tripin Alaska. 
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Have you ever thought how handy your Catalogue is 
for a collector to catalogue the sets he has in his collec- 
tion? J have in my own case indicated in a couple of 
the Catalogues in front of the A. O. U. No. of each 
species, the number and size of the sets of those eggs 
which I have in my-~collection. 
the Catalogue I can tell in no time just what sets I 
have, and by the use of certain arbitrary signs I can 
tell whether the eggs are rst class, full data, or incom- 
plete sets, or full sets, in fact just what their condition 
is. This is very handy as it saves having to refer to my 
collection every time I wish to learn the number of sets 
I have ofa certain species.—O. W. KNIGHT, 
Bangor, Maine. 
Thus by looking at- 
Two yvounG California Vultures were taken this 
year in Monterey county, Cal., from as many 
nests. 
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Mr. Harry R. Vayior. 
DEAR SiR: I have just examined your new 
“Standard American Egg Catalogue,” and am 
very muck pleased with it. My future exchanges 
will be based on the prices contained in this cata- 
logue. Youcertainly are to be congratulated for 
compiling a recognized basis for exchange,so com- 
plete and impartial. 
Waynesburg, Pa. J. WARREN JACOBS. 
WANTED, FOR SALE AND TO EXCHANGE 
ANTED—The | first four ‘numbers of volume 1, 
NIDOLOGIST; will give good cash price. Address 
ALFRED MIERS, Walkerville, Ontario, Canada. 
ANTED—AUK’S complete file ‘‘Archeologist” 
(except No. 1, Vol 2), 17 Oologists, 5 O. and O. 
of 1891 for best offer. V. H. CHASE, 
Wady Petra, Ill. 
AMERA WANTED—sx8 or larger of good make. 
Can also use a Pocket Camera or Kombi or Zerfect 
Indian relics. I can offer the following first-class skins, 
also other articles: Red-tailed Buzzard, Marsh Hawk, 
Pied-billed Grebe, Horned Grebe, American Merganser, 
Golden-eye, American Bittern, Black-crowned Night 
Heron, Great Blue Heron, Ruffed Grouse, Loon, Bald 
Eagle. L. V. Cass, Geneseo, Io Ws 
OR EXCHANGE— I will exchange a secret for 
trapping foxes by scent, which will call them one- 
half mile to the trap; the scent has tobe made in April, 
and it costs you nothing to make it, and until May 15, 
I wili exchange the secret for $10 cash or $12 worth of 
such things as I can use in the line of microscopes, tele- 
scopes, field glasses, mounted birds, rare eggs, books or 
U_S. stamps; no cards answered. Address 
WALTER EK. MacLarn, Box 70, New Vineyard, Me. 
[PCOS ee a $5 bill I’ll send 20 extra fine Osprey 
Eggs in sets, with data, showing variation in color 
and markings, with a fine set of Eider Duck with data. 
F. B. BastM AN, 903 Market st., Wilmington, Del. 
ANTED. aN Kodak : I want any of the follow- 
ing makes: Bullet, Bull’s Eye, Hawk Eye Jr., 
Hawk Eye, or Night Hawk. I offer Vols. I and II 
of the Nid. complete, and the following sets of Hawk’s 
eggs with data: Nos. 33574, As 337%, 33343 
337034; 34732; 360a%8; 36034, i. 
L. M. CLARK, Suffield, Conn. 
(Gee Southern Eggs in sets to exchange for sets 
and singles of 35, 104, 112, 183, 188, 204, 205, 
206, 271, 452, 356, Emue, Ostrich. 
Dr. M. T. CLECKLEY, 
45-47 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. 
OR SALE.—‘‘Nidologist,”? Vols. I and II (com- 
plete), ““O. & O.” Vols. XV, XVI and XVIII, 
Coue’s ‘‘Key’’ and ‘Land Birds of the Pacific District;”’ 
all as good asnew. Can use Le Conte’s ‘‘Elements of 
Geology,’’, last edition, and ‘‘National Herbarium Con- 
tributions Vol. IY. H. M. HALL, 
399 Ist St., Riverside, Cal. 
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