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Ill 01IIIWISI. 



A Monthly paper of Natural History. 



Especially devoted to the study of Birds, their 

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Edited by C. L. McCOLLUM, 



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NOTES. 



" We have received many letters of 

 inquiry, asking us if we would take 

 minerals and eggs in payment for a 

 years subscription to The Ornitho- 

 logist. We would say to those 

 desiring a years subscription and 

 not wishing to pay cash, that if 

 they will send us six correctly label- 

 ed minerals, not less than 2x2 inches, 

 or $1.00 worth of first class eggs, 

 will be given a full years subscrip- 

 tion and all the privileges of a cash 

 subscriber. We desire minerals 

 such as W. S. Beekman and L. W 

 Stilwell deal in. See advertisements. 



Mr. E. M. Haight, Riverside, Cal., 

 has sent us his annual catalogue. 

 From personal experience we know 

 Mr. Haight to be perfectly reliable. 

 His ad. appears on first page of cover. 



If you wish to gain the greatest 

 amount of scientific knowledge from 

 your collection collect only in sets. 



The Garden of Eden, now called 

 Gournah, is forty miles northeast 

 of Busreh in Turkish Arabia, at the 

 confluence of the Tigris and Euph- 

 rates. The country is destitute of 

 vegetation with the exception of 

 date palms, which are quite luxuri- 

 ant. 



Were we collecting, in order to 

 form an elegant cabinet collection of 

 only the best prepared specimens, 

 C. H. Marsh of Silver City, N. M., 

 would be largely patronized by us. 

 The bird skins, obtained from him, 

 are the neatest, most life-like* speci- 

 mens it has ever been our pleasure 

 to receive. Mr. Marsh must use 

 infinite care, to render them so true 

 to nature. 



In a back number of the Young 

 Ornithologist, Elisha Slade, Somerset, 

 Mass., gives an interresting account 

 of a melanic robin, seen by him May 

 31st, 1881. 



Captain R. B. Baxter, Sparta, Ga., 

 recently succeeded in killing a robin, 

 having white back, tail, wings and 

 head, and a red breast. 



Sergeant Green captured an albino 

 robin in Leverington Cemetery, 

 Phila., where it had been seen 

 mingling with other birds for sever- 

 al days. 



A late paper contains an account 

 of the capture of an albino crow, bv 

 a western farmer, who sold it for 

 five dollars. 



Be sure and read A. E. Southworth 

 & Go's advertisement in regard to 

 Standard Directory. 



The Pine and Palmetto of Oak- 

 land, Cal. has recently enlarged to 

 12 pages. 



