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than 10 re-chronicle in lengthy articles, the 

 gist of some other author's paper, much less 

 copy it from a bird book. 



RE CENT P UBLICA Tl ONS. 



Devoted to Birds and Birds' Eggs 



THERD PUBLICATION YEAR. 



S. L. WILLARD, EDITOR, 



.\ssisced by able Associate Editors. 



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THE OOLOGIST, 

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JANUARY, 1878. 



To our Correspondents. — We are 

 glad at all times to receive short items and 

 original articles from our readers, for pub- 

 lication in our columns, and the more orig- 

 inality they contain, tlie greater their im- 

 portance to those who read our journal. 

 But we desire to say that we shall not pub- 

 lish papers and items unless they contain 

 at least some information that is original 

 with the author ; do not send us items un- 

 less they contain for the greater part your 

 own experience — what we want is matter 

 new to the ornithological world. It is bet- 

 ter to state briefly your own observations 



Vol. I,. No. 1 of the Western Oologist 

 appears from Milwaukee, Wis. Its object 

 we should judge to be a dissemination of 

 bird knowledge. It starts out as a four- 

 page monthly, at the small subscription 

 price of 25 cents a year. 



Birds of Southeastern Oregon^ and Notes 

 on Seventy-nine species of Birds observed in 

 the neighborhood of Camp Harney, Oregon. 

 Capt. Chas. Bendire, tlie author of these 

 lists, is well known as an observant ornith- 

 ologist, and it is needless for us to say that 

 the district chosen by him as his field for 

 investigation, is a most important and pro- 

 ductive one. The birds are arranged in 

 the style of Dr. Coues' check-list, and the 

 notes on their nesting habits and eggs, com- 

 piled as they are for the most part, from 

 the author's own experience, are both val- 

 uable and interesting. Captain Bendire 

 suggests a new variety, if not distinct spe- 

 cies of Pelecanus in the west. 



We Iiave read with much interest the pa- 

 pers of Dr. Brewer, in the American Nat- 

 uralist, entitled, Variations in the Nests of 

 the same Species of Birds, and of the Rev. 

 Samuel Lockwood, on the Night Herons, 

 and their exodus. 



The Naturalist and Fancier of Gi'and 

 Rapids, Mich., has enlarged and is furnish- 

 ed with a new heading. It contains a 

 number of good articles on birds and their 

 eggs, by good writers. It is published by 

 Chas. W. Gunn, 10 Jefferson Ave., at 25 

 cents a year. 



The Valley Naturalist appears with its 

 pages replete with interesting facts. Its or- 

 nithological department contains a contin- 

 uation of the list of birds of St. Clair Co., 

 Ills., and an item entitled, A Queer Nest- 

 ing Place, by Mr. Ragsdale. It contains 

 also a portion of a list of the birds of Mich- 

 igan, by W. H. Hughes. 



