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THE OOLOGIST 



THE NEW EGG PRICE LIST 



During the montli of March we 

 mailed "The American Oologist Ex- 

 change Price List of North American 

 Birds, Compiled by a Committee of 

 Twenty-five Prominent American Oolo- 

 gists," and published by ourselves. 

 Being a volume of ninety-seven pages 

 and one that will for years to come in 

 our opinion to be the standard by 

 which exchange of these specimens 

 will be conducted. 



No Oologist or Scientific Institution 

 can afford to be without a copy of this 

 work. It contains descriptions and 

 directions of the proper manner to pre- 

 pare, mark and authenticate specimens 

 of this character, with illustrations 

 showing the more adva'nced methods 

 of the preservation and display. 



The List of North American Bird^ 

 and the prices are printed on the left 

 hand of only one side of each leaf in 

 the book. The arrangements being 

 adopted in order that the right hand 

 side of each page might be used for 

 records, memoranda, lists, etc., of 

 ea'ch individual collector as their judg- 

 ment and convenience might dictate 



The supply of this volume is limited. 

 After it is exhausted, there is no ques- 

 tion but that those having it may sell 

 it at a premium. Those who have not 

 already ordered should do so at once, 

 lest their order come in after the 

 Edition is exhausted. — R. M. Barnes. 



"THE MURRELET" 



Vol. Ill, No. 1, January 1922. The 

 Official Organ of The Pacific North- 

 west Bird and Mammal Club. 



This mimeographed publication is 

 filled with live, fresh bird and other 

 natural history matter and is always 

 welcome. It is a relief once in a 

 while to receive a Bird publication 

 which is not so ultra-scientific, as to 

 be non-understandable and entirely un- 

 interesting to the ordinary lay reader, 

 R. M. Barnes, 



EAGLE DOPE 



For many years my collecting part- 

 ner, Mr. E. J. Court, of Wasliington, 

 D C, an active enthusiastic field col- 

 lector, and one of the best known oolo- 

 gists in the East, and myself have 

 heard of four young Eagles being 

 taken from one nest. Now Court who 

 lias taken as many sets of this bird as 

 anyone in the country, always laughed 

 at this story although I know the 

 party who told the tale to be a re- 

 liable truthful person. 



On February 22, 1922, Court and 

 myself took from a Charles County, 

 Maryland, nest a set of four egggs. 

 The nest was in a' dead chestnut 90 

 feet up and were fresh. This set is as 

 far as I can find the first authentic 

 set of four ever collected. Now for the 

 odd part of this news On March 5th, 

 R. C. Harlow of Pennsylvania State 

 College, this man's name is enough, 

 came down to go on an Eagle trip 

 with Court atid myself. We went to 

 a Fairfax County, Virginia nest and 

 took a set of four eggs one third in- 

 cubated from it. This nest was 75 

 feet up, in a live scrub-pine, and was 

 the first Eagle nest we .ever found 

 that had no dry grass in it, the lining 

 being dirt and dead leaves. 



It is remarkable that after years of 

 collecting, two such sets should be 

 taken in one season, by the same col- 

 lectors. Big sets this year but not 

 many of them as tlie bird is becoming 

 rarer and rarer each year. 



E. A. Sikken, 

 Hyattsville, Maryland. 



E. J. Darlington, of Wilmington, 

 Delaware, in The Oologist, Vol. XXIX, 

 Page 206, reports one set of four eggs 

 of this species, brought to him by a 

 boy in 1910 and also another set of 

 four eggs taken in 1911. These sets 

 are illustrated on pages 204 and 205 

 of that Volume of The Oologist. 

 Nevertheless, sets of four of the Bald 

 Eagle are very rare. — R. M. B. 



