t4 THE NIDOLOGIST 
Published and DR.SHUFELDT 
Edited by Smithsonian 
Henry R. TaYLor Institution, Associate. 
Founded at Alameda, California, September, 1893 
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Our subscribers will please note, among the 
new features of Vol. IV., that we are using 100 
pound coated book paper, the best in the market 
for half-tone illustrations. 
THE colored plate we have presented with this 
number pictures faithfully the peculiar ground 
color and the shade of brown on the Western 
Evening Grosbeak’s eggs. The results secured 
by the artist, Mr. P. W. Nahl, surpass our highest 
expectations, and it is quite likely that other sub- 
jects will be illustrated similarly in this magazine 
from time to time. 
Mr. CHASE LITTLEJOHN, of Redwood City, Cal- 
ifornia, offers in this number some rarities in sets 
of eggs and skins from Alaska, collected by him- 
self. Data is complete and specimens are very 
choice. The prices are low. Mr. Littlejohn fur- 
nished the notes for an interesting article by 
Major Bendire on the Ancient Murrelet which ap- 
peared in Zhe Auk for July, 1895. 
THE readers of THE NipoLocis? declare that it 
is the only up-to-date, reliable, illustrated maga- 
zine of bird-life in America. It has completed its 
third successful year. Its fourth volume is under 
way, and will be a record breaker. Help on a 
good cause by subscribing at once and interesting 
your friends in us also. It takes money to grease 
the wheels of progress, and all who help us will 
be fully repaid for their interest. 
RAINE Offers to lay some bets with us. Reply- 
ing to his proposition, in the first place we are 
not running a sporting journal. Webster’s Dic- 
tionary defines a wager: ‘‘A contract by which 
two parties or more agree that acertain sum of 
money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered 
to one of them on the happening or not happen- 
iug of an uncertain event.’’ There is too much of 
chance in this to make it scientific. 
Two [lore Albinos. 
was printed in the May Nipotocist, I over- 
looked two interesting specimens ‘n the Stan- 
ford University collection. They are in a small lot 
collected by Mr. Cloud Rutter and presented by 
him to the museum. The birds may be described 
as follows: Grasshopper Sparrow. Ammodramus 
Savannarum passerinus. Wong Pine, Neb. 5-31- 
93. Pure white, except edge of wing which is 
yellow as in normal speciniens. 
Tree Sparrow.—Spizella monticola. Johnstown, 
Neb., Jan. ’91. Colors as usual except one primary 
ineach wing, two feathers of tail and large 
portion of scapulars pure white. 
Another odd specimen in the same lot is re- 
called to mind by reading of Mr. Heller’s cross- 
billed Vellowthroat (Nid. III. 60.) In this in- 
stance it is a Goldfinch whose mandibles are pro- 
longed an.! crossed in an exact reproduction of 
Loxia in miniature, 
I am especially interested in abnormal plumages 
and will be very grateful to members of the 
Cooper Club, or other collectors not in California, 
who will send me specimens for examination. 
All material loaned will be returned in a short 
time and full credit given in case of publication. 
RICHARD C. MCGREGOR. 
Palo Alto, Aug. 28, 1896. 
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New Publications. 
66 HE OSPREY,” published monthly at 
IE Galesburg, Ili., with an editorial staff 
consisting of W. A. Johnson, of Gales- 
burg, A.C. Murchison of Kewanee, and D, A. 
Cohen of Alameda as editor of the California 
department, is the latest venture to appeal to 
bird lovers for support. No.1, (September) is a 
good first number, with an interesiing article by 
E.S. Rolfe, with full page illustration in hal!- 
tone of nest and eggs of the Ferruginous Rough- 
leg. The magazine announces that it will soon 
start areview department. The title is not new 
having been used for an American Ornithological 
magazine published years ago. 
‘‘Ebersold’s Quarterly,’’ descriptive of natural 
history in Florida, is a decidedly unique venture, 
No. I, appearing with 24 pages and cover. Itis 
published by the Ebersold family of eleven, ‘‘on 
board the house-boat ‘The Collector,’ while 
cruising about the coasts of Florida.” There are 
seven full page pictures, gelatine prints, which 
are unusually interesting. To print these a regular 
lithographic roller is ordinarily deemed necessary, 
but not having one, the house-boat publisher 
used an ordinary clothes wringer, with first-class 
results! A colored plate is announced for the 
next number. The price of the magazine is 50 
cents per year, or 15 centsacopy. The address 
of the Ebersolds until June 20 is Oceanus, 
Brevard Co., Florida. 
i? making up my list of albino birds which 
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WE WOULD ask that everyone read at once the 
announcement, printed elsewhere, of the beauti- 
fully illustrated souvenir to be devoted to the 
“‘Story of the Farallones.’’ A careful record will 
be kept of all orders and remittances. Co-opera- 
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