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THE NIDOLOGIST 
THE NIDOLOGIST. 
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MA GAZINE 
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ORNITHOLOGY 
With Special Reference to the 
NIDIFICATION OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 
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Publisher’s Notices. 
While our regular Fall renewals of subscription, 
with new ones also, are coming in fast, we would 
remind all that this magazine is not mailed after 
subscriptions expire. Ihe rule implies no distrust 
or disrespect to any, being simply the impartial 
application of a necessary business principle, 
which we have followed since No. I, Vol. I. 
A very fine photograph has been taken for us 
of the nest and eggs of the Western Evening 
Grosbeak, and the rare find will be pictured in a 
colored plate now in preparation for the Septem- 
ber number, opening a new era with Vol. IV in 
the history of this publication. 
A complete index to Vol. III, kindly prepared 
by Mr. Richard C. McGregor, will be issued with 
our next number. 
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In publishing, for the information of Oologists, 
the facts regarding certain sets of eggs from 
Waiter Raine, we are willing to print a reply from 
him, if he chooses to write one, provided it is a 
proper and respectful rejoinder, and devoid of 
any attempt to ‘‘bluff.” 
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Send us news and records of interesting ‘‘takes’’ 
during the past season. 
Pseudo Eggs of N. Longirostris. 
A few months ago the editor of this magazine 
came into possession, hy purchase from a dealer 
in the East, of a set of four eggs, alleged to have 
been collected personally by Walter Raine in 
Yorkshire, England, asappears from the data in 
his own well-known handwriting, of which a 
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faithful photographic copy is presented herewith. 
It will be seen that the eggs are declared to be 
Long-billed Curlew, 
longirostris, and that Raine stated that he ‘‘found 
those of our Numentus 
many nests,’’ whereas, according to Seebohm and 
other of the highest authorities on British birds, 
this Curlew was zever known to breedin England. 
The Common Curlew, however, whose eggs are 
catalogued at 15 cents, is found breeding there, 
and as the eggs of the two are much alike, Raine’s 
are probably Common Curlew’s, and are certainly 
not Long-billed Curlew’s. ; 
There are, no doubt, many other of these so- 
called Long-billed Curlew’s sets, taken by Mr. 
[ From Oological Collection of WALTER RAINE, Toronto, Canada. 
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OTE-—W., Raine employs his owa Collectors in Iceland, Greenland, Lapland, Great Bu and 
NorthWest Canada, and has for sale or exchange, rare Birds’ Eggs. Lowest Prices in Ameri 
Publisher of " Bird Nesting in North-West Canada." 
Raine or his collectors 77 England, scattered over 
the country. We have seen two others, and the 
data accompanying one oi these, in the collection 
of Mr. C. Barlow, of\ Santa Clara, Cal., is here 
reproduced in fac simile. 
