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THE OOLOQIST 



The latest to join the service are Rid- 

 ley HoUeman of San Antonio, Texas, 

 who goes into the Aviation Branch, 

 and Thomas D. Burleigh of Pittsburg, 

 Pa. who is in the Young Men's 

 Christian Association, Army and Navy 

 Association and is probably in Prance 

 by the time this is published. 



Colin Campbell Sanborn, one of the 

 Oologist's clan, a member of Battery 

 C. 149th U. S. Artillery, is just leav- 

 ing Port Sheridan for the East and 

 will without doubt be sent to Prance. 

 He promises the Oologist notes on the 

 birds that he may observe during his 

 service and we appreciate his offer 

 and are sure the Oologists generally 

 will be interested. 



Collection Changes 



We are advised that J. B. Carter of 

 Waynesburg, Pa., has transferred his 

 collection of eggs to Dr. R. B. Bales 

 of Circleville, Ohio. 



B. W. Arnold of Albany, New York, 

 has presented his extensive collection 

 of birds' eggs to the New York State 

 Museum at Albany, and has been ap- 

 pointed Honorary Curator of Orni- 

 thology of that institution. 



Charles P. Carr, publisher of the 

 New London, (Wis.) Press, has given 

 to the city for the establishment of a 

 museum in connection with the public 

 library, his collection of mounte(3 

 birds, bird skins, bird eggs, minerals 

 fossils, land, bush water and marine 

 shells and other marine specimens. 

 Mr. Carr has been an enthusiastic col. 

 lector for over forty years and his 

 specimens on display fill eight glass 

 cabinets 3x7x10 feet; in addition 

 there are several cabinets of drawers. 



He retains his ornithological li- 

 brary, the finet in the state. 



The sad news comes to our desk 

 that Evan Davis, one of California's 

 earlier and well known oologists 



passed away at his home in Orange, 

 California, July 16, 1917. 



Mr. Davis was an oologist well 

 known, accurate and reliable and one 

 who was a close observer and who 

 descried a great deal of personal 

 pleasure in the pursuit of his science. 

 The first set of white-tailed Kite ever 

 received by the Editor, and at that 

 time a great rarety, in his collection, 

 is a set of four which we received 

 from Mr. Davis many years ago. It 

 is needless to say it still rests in our 

 cabinet. 



We express our sympathy for his 

 family. 



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Books Received 



A STUDY OP THE RACES OP 

 THE WHITE PRONTED GOOSE 

 (Anser albifrons) OCCURING IN 

 CALIPORNIA, by Harry S. Swarth 

 and Harold C. Bryant. University 

 of California Publications in Zoology, 

 Vol. 17 No. 11. 



This publication describes what 

 purports to be a new sub-species of 

 white-fronted gooses and purports to 

 divide birds of this species visiting 

 California into two varieties ; the one 

 here described, "Tule Goose" and the 

 other the common American White- 

 fronted Goose. The differences point- 

 ed out which distinguish the Tule 

 Goose from the common variety ap- 

 pear to be a yellow ring around the 

 edge of the eye lid, and an alleged 

 difference in size, and the fact that 

 the Tule Goose is supposed to have 

 two more feathers in the tail than the 

 other variety; and contains among 

 other things, this startling statement: 



"A large Tule Goose may be com- 

 pared with the Canada Goose, which 

 it closely approximates in bulk" 



If a a bird as large as the Canada 

 Goose has escaped the fine-combed 

 search of our systematists for sub- 

 species of geographic races until the 



