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THE OOLOGIST 



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Sometime since we withdrew from 

 Dr. T. M. Cleckley, of Augusta, Georgia, 

 any permission to use ttie columns of 

 The Oologlst, for any purpose, being 

 compelled to take this step because of 

 information that has lately come to 

 our knowledge. Since that time we 

 have recent complaint from another 

 subscriber, of having sent Cleckley 

 certain specimens at his request, 

 which were to be paid for on delivery. 

 The subscriber received a check in re- 

 turn, which check was turned down 

 by an Augusta Batik, apparently a 

 bank that would not take up a five 

 dollar check for a customer, even if 

 there were not sufficient funds to meet 

 it, must have a very unsavory opinion 

 of such customer, all of which tends 

 to show that we did right in excluding 

 him from our columns. 



He has recently, after failing in one 

 effort, finally secured a' copy of The 

 New Catalogue Price List, through 

 some other source than our supply, as 

 we flat-footedly refused to permit him 

 to get one. — The Editor. 



OUGHT TO BE HUNG 



Carl Hyne, a subscriber to The 

 Oologist, of Waverly, Louisiana, while 

 engaged in collecting specimens for 

 the Louisiana State Museum, was 

 assassinated by some villian, who hid 

 in a fallen tree top, and shot him to 

 death with buck shot, February 22nd, 

 1922. 



It is the hope of the Editor, that he 

 who performed this barbarous act, will 

 pay the extreme penalty therefor, at 

 the end of a hemp rope. 



R. M. Barnes. 



THE SNOWY EGRET OBSERVED 

 IN KANSAS 



On the afternoon of July 16, 1922, my 

 brother Clyde and a friend, Chester 

 Marshall, and myself, were following 

 a lake's edge here in Wyandotte Coun- 

 ty, with the idea of getting notes on 

 the bird life usually found in such 

 places. At the farther end of the lake 

 we saw a Green Heron fighting wiih a 

 white bird, somewhat larger than it- 

 self and unmistakably a Heron also. 

 We endeavored to approach close 

 enough for a better view, but could not. 

 Finding we could not come up close 

 enough on land, we stripped off and 

 diving in pushed a log before us, with 

 nothing but our heads out of water, 

 and thus were enabled to come within 

 fifty feet of our mysterious stranger 

 while it was wading about in the 

 shallows and striking at something in 

 the water. It became suspicious and 

 finally flew up into the branches of a 

 partly submerged tree. We came to 

 within twenty feet this time and were 

 rewarded by a clear examination of 

 coloration and proportions. 



It was entirely white except the 

 legs which were black and feet which 

 were lighter. The bill was also black 

 at the ba'se. It had no plumes on 

 back, head or breast, yet I believe it 

 was a Snowy Egret; and it is a' rare 

 occasion for us for though N. S. Goss 

 in "Birds of Kansas" (1886) states 

 "The 'Snowy Heron' was not un- 

 common. Arrived from the South in 

 July and August returning in Setem- 

 ber." Harry Harris in his book "Birds 

 of the Kansas City Region," says, "The 

 only record for this part of the country 

 is a beautiful specimen in the Ban- 

 ker's collection taken in Holt County 

 on April 14, 1904. 



Is the Snowy Egret coming back? 

 We hope so. 



Ralph J. Donahue, 

 Bonner Springs, Kansas. 



