The 





Vol. XXXIX. No. 12 Albion, N. Y., Dec, 



1922. Whole No. 428 





Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. BARNES, 



Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, 111. 



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THE END OF THE YEAR 



The annual cycle is now drawing to a close as we look 

 backward through the fading 1922, we must plead guilty to 

 the fact that our little Oologist has not been all that we could 

 have wished it during the past year. At the same time we 

 believe that in furnishing our subscribers with one hundred 

 and eighty pages of reading matter, and the large number of 

 beneficial advertisements, and the two splendid supplements 

 which appeared this year, all for fifty cents, that we had not 

 robbed any person very much. We doubt if any other pub- 

 lisher, quantity and quality considered has furnished more. 



For the coming year The Oologist will follow along its own 

 little beaten path which it has traveled, lo, these many years! 



The goodness or badness, the usefulness or uselessness, 

 and the interest or non-interest of The Oologist, rests entire- 

 ly with its friends and patrons. According as they divide 

 their bird knowledge and experience with our readers the 

 coming year, will The Oologist be judged, and we bespeak a 

 liberal supply of copy from our readers for in that way, and 

 in that way only, can we furnish you that which others see, 

 hear, know, experience and take. Please remember this and 

 do your part and the publisher will do his. — R. M. Barnes. 



