56 _ THE NIDOLOGIST 
Published and DR.SHUFELDT 
Edited by Smithsonian 
HenRY R. TAYLOR Institution, Associate. 
Founded at Alameda, California, September, 1893 
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WE wIsH to all our subscribers and friends a 
most happy and successful year, full of delightful 
experiences, rich in the fathoming of Nature’s 
secrets, and fraught with the peace of woodland 
bird songs on a day in May! 
WITH a desire to establish a closer sympathy 
between the paper and its subscribers, the pros- 
perity of the one being that of the other also, we 
addressed a letter to our friends on the advent of 
the new year, which has already been fruitful of 
results highly gratifying and cheering to the 
editorial heart. New subscribers are coming in; 
now let the good work go on. 
WE HAVE been obliged to issue a ‘‘combine” 
number. In it our readers will find many contri- 
butions of unusual interest and permanent value, 
a forecast, we believe of many more such with 
which we expect to be favored during the year. 
Tur NipoLocist is your medium—send in your 
articles for publication. 
THE YEAR 1897 promises well for this journal. 
It will be issued hereafter on time, and by the 
help of all who are its firm friends will advance 
to higher achievements, keeping up the good 
work of exposing ‘‘frauds” and doing its share to 
raise the standard of Ornithology and Oology and 
to increase the interest in the most delightful of 
scientific studies. 
THIS MAGAZINE shall continue to publish the 
best photographs by the latest half-tone process, 
not a lot of poor ones to please any amateur 
photographer at the expense of reading matter, 
but something in the way of beauty and value 
every time you see it. Line drawings make 
inexpensive and often very desirable illustrations, 
and we shall be pleased to have such sent in to us 
done with India ink, never pencil. 
THE NIDOLOGIST is not published for fun, as a 
passing plaything, but is the following out of an 
earnest purpose which friends of Ornithology 
have recognized and aided. We need the help of 
all, never more than now, when a little con- 
certed action can push a standard, established 
monthly of Ornithology into the 7igh¢ place in the 
new era of prosperity which is just dawning. 
This is to your interest. Let each one take a 
pride in it, and begin, now. 
THE Alfred Marshall collections of bird skins 
and birds’ eggs have just been transferred to the 
American Museum of Natural History. 
THE superb illustrated souvenir, ‘‘The Story of 
the Farallones,’’ has awakened a wide iuterest 
and the fact of its success is already established. 
It will be issued early in the year. 
THE main object of this letter is to send my 
hearty indorsement of your great proposition, 
“The Story of the Farallones.’’ For I know if it 
is in keeping with everything you have under- 
taken, THE Nip for example, I will never regret 
my investment. R. C. STEVENS, New York. 
I HAVE just been reading with much interest, 
the page of the September NipoLocisT, which 
relates to your Souvenir of the Farallones. There 
is a certain mystery about the sea-birds and their 
island homes that always interests me and I should 
not like to miss this paper on the subject. By 
the way, the Grosbeak nest plate is elegant. 
N. HOLLISTER. 
WRITES BENJAMIN T. GAULT: ‘It is just as 
you say, you do get a little late sometimes in 
getting out THE Nip, but you do have ‘some- 
thing worth waiting for occasionally!’ The Sep- 
tember supplement, nest and eggs of the Western 
Evening Grosbeak, is something that is really 
fine. It is very plain to be seen that you still 
intend to keep up your reputation as a leader.” 
THE steamer Hope, with the Peary Greenland 
party on board returned in safety to Sidney, Cape 
Breton Island, on September 26. A large collection 
of specimens of natural history and ethnology 
were obtained. Mr. Jesse D. Figgins of Kensing- 
ton, Md., accompanied the expedition as collector 
and taxidermist, and his energy and hard work 
were successful in preserving over 200 birds and 
nearly roo eggs, besides numerous other speci. 
mens. 
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