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tain portious of the body, to the utter dis- 

 regard of others equally as important. As 

 an example he mentions and illustrates the 

 repeated and often unnoticed misrepresent- 

 ations of the legs and feet of birds. There 

 really is much sense in that criticism ; the 

 ridiculous shortness or length of shank fre- 

 quently seen in pictures of birds, when it 

 should have been just otherwise, calls for- 

 cibly to mind the necessity of expending 

 study and care upon even this portion of 

 bird portraiture. 



Devoted to Birds and Birds' Eggs 



THIRD PUBLICATION YEAR. 



S. L. WILLARD, EDITOR, 



Assisted by able Associate Editors. 



TERMS: 

 Forty cents a Year in advance, postage paid. 



Items on Ornithology and Oology solicited. 



^^Those wishing to dispose of birds' eggs 

 or skins Avill find The Oologist the best 

 means of communicating the tact to a large 

 class of collectors of any paper published. 

 Specimen copy for stamp. 



Address all communications to 



THE OOLOGIST, 

 Oneida Stkeet, Utica, N. Y. 



The announcement of a new work on the 

 Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the 

 United States, is made by Messrs. Scribner, 

 Armstrong & Co. It is to be issued in ten 

 parts, each part to contain two colored plates 

 22 by 28 inches, and accompanying text. 

 The popularity of the publishers and the au- 

 thor, Mr. A. Pope, Jr., is a guaranty that 

 the work will be a masterly production. 



NOVEMBER, 1877. 



We have received copies of the Janus ^ 

 Southern Poultry Journal, Field and 

 .Forest, Chicago Field, Fanciers' Jour- 

 nal, and several ornithological catalogues 

 and pamphlets, which lead us to the con- 

 clusion that scientific and natural history 

 literature are becoming more and more pop- 

 ular in this country. An article in the sec- 

 ond above mentioned journal, entitled " Il- 

 lustrations," is in some particulars, worthy 

 of attention. The author brings to notice 

 the great error committed by many design- 

 ers, in portraying bird-life, of expending 

 over-care and partiality in representing cer- 



A Tablet of North American Oolo- 

 gy. — In response to many inquiries which 

 reach me, as to just what information is 

 required concerning each collector's work 

 of the season, I would suggest the follow- 

 ing convenient method of arrangement : 



Date I Name or No. | Loc. I No. Eggs. 

 Jun. 10 I Pewee, (135) | Ava,Me ( 4 eggs. 



It is desirable that every collector in the 

 United States should make a response to 

 the request, whether the number of eggs 

 collected be one or ten thousand. Rare 

 eggs should have a history attached, that 

 all interesting points may be fully develop- 

 ed. W. H. Ballou, Evanston, Ills. 



We would request correspondents to write 

 contributions intended for The Oologist, 

 on one side of the paper only. It is also 

 advisable always to number the sheets, in 

 order to avoid confusion. A number of in- 

 teresting papers are unavoidably delayed 

 for publication in the next number. 



