The Oologist. 



VOL. XIX. NO. 7. 



ALBION. N. Y., JULY, 1902. 



Whole No. 190 



The Oologist. 



A Montlily Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND 



TAXIDERMY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



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IfNot, Why So' 



And the Lord looked down and was appalled 

 at the wlcliedness of man and said, "I will put 

 one good man among them," and forthwith 

 there appeared upon the earth a man who 

 could mind his own business. -'A. Fake" 



"A bird ID the bush is worth tv^o in 



the hand," from the bird's point of 

 view, and the opera glass advocates, in- 

 deed, adherants of the opera glass are 

 the warmest friends our birds have, 

 not only awarding them the in.erest 

 that is their due, but accomplisbin.j? it 

 in a wholly harmless manner. Having 

 the welfare of birds at heart they can 

 not tolerate those who entertain oppos- 

 ing views; hence, a magazine now and 

 then blossoms forth with an article 

 brimfull of indignant condemnation of 

 all who raise an arm to kill a bird or 

 touch an egg. Secure from a counter 

 attack bv their own innocence their 

 criticisms are austere and unsparing 

 and no one gets a larger dose than a 

 class of heartless, blood-thirsty barbar- 

 ians known as Ornithologists, especial 

 attention being directed to the fact that 

 this class are students of birds and 

 so should be the first to realize the error 

 of their ways. Now if an Ornithologist 

 is to be converted it must be by logic 

 and not censure. He regards these at- 

 tacks with amusement or disdain ac- 

 cording to his di-position. suggesting 

 that common right of summer — insolent 

 Kingbird and soaring Henhawk. He 

 looks up to ascertain from what exalted 

 pinnacle of wisdom his opera glass friend 

 presumes to look down and cast de- 

 preciative reflections upon his doings. 

 Not finding it he looks the other way 

 and there it is just musl^room high. He 

 smiles a serene self-satisfied smile 

 which gradually gives place to a sym- 

 pathetic and pitying expression as he 

 muses back into the past. 



The one great joy of his boy-hood 

 was to escape into the woodland quiet 

 where ungrateful parents and grim old 

 school masters and other unpleas- 



