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THE OOLOGIST 



Thus closes what has been one of 

 our real amusing and interesting busi- 

 ness experiences. — Editor. 



many enjoyable trips this summer and 

 made what to us were rare finds. 



L. E. Healy. 



Notice of Removal. 

 Gerard Alan Abbott advises THE 

 OOLOGIST that he bid farewell to the 

 slopes of Oregon where he saw over 

 one hundred breeding varieties. Mr. 

 Abbott is on Lake St. Clair, Michigan, 

 where he has been made Village Sup- 

 erintendent of Grosse Shores. 



A Letter. 



I was always interested in collect- 

 ing birds eggs and interested in birds, 

 their habits. As a boy I had the usual 

 boy's collection and as a young man 

 back in 1895 I started a collection, 

 however, not a scientific one, but one 

 of these "holes-at-both-end" kind and 

 T only collected two eggs of each kind. 

 T didn't even know then that so many 

 men made a very enjoyable past-time 

 of the work. I knew nothing of THE 

 OOLOGIST, didn't even suppose there 

 was a paper devoted entirely to the 

 subject printed. I knew most of the 

 common birds about our town, knew 

 their habits and songs which is more 

 than one out of a thousand in this 

 'neck of the woods" knows. How 

 much of life they miss and how very 

 uninteresting the woods must seem 

 not knowing the songs and undoubted- 

 ly not even hearing the songs of our 

 feathered friends. 



Since subscribing for THE OOLO- 

 GIST, I have been awakened to a new 

 and a more scientific study of birds 

 and my spare time has been given 

 over to a more thorough investigation; 

 data has been taken, blow pipe used 

 and full sets collected. I have been 

 enthused the more by the earnestness 

 with which my friend "Bud Kans" 

 has gone into the work with me. He 

 is but a boy enthusiastic and a love 

 of nature and the wilds. We have had 



A Remarkable List. 



During the season of 1915 I found 

 the nests of these birds: Wood Duck, 

 Least Bittern, American Bittern, Least 

 Bittern, Great Blue Heron, Green 

 Heron, Bl. Cr. Night Heron, Clapper 

 Rail, Virginia Rail, Sora Rail, Black 

 Rail, Florida Gallinuie, Spotted Sand- 

 piper, Killdeer, Mourning Dove, Tur- 

 key Vulture, Red Shouldered Hawk, 

 Broad Wing Hawk, Sparrow Hawk, Os- 

 prey, Barn Owl, Horned Owl, Screech 

 Owl, Belted Kingfisher, Hairy Wood- 

 pecker, Downy Woodpecker, Flicker 

 Woodpecker, Chimney Swift, King- 

 bird, White-eye Vireo, White Warbler, 

 Blue-winged Warbler, Maryland Yel- 

 lowthroat. Catbird, House Wren, 

 Crested Flycatcher, Phoebe, Wood Pe- 

 wee, Acadian Flycatcher, ,Blue Jay, 

 American Crow, Fish Crow, Starling, 

 Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, 

 Meadowlark, Baltimore Oriole, Pur- 

 ple Grackle, English Sparrow, Seaside 

 Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Field 

 Sparrow, Song Sparrow, Swamp Spar- 

 row, Towhee, Cardinal, Rose Breasted 

 Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Scarlet 

 Tanager, Purple Martin, Tree Swal- 

 low, Bank Swallow, Rough-wing Swal- 

 low, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eye Vireo, 

 Yellow Warbler, Ovenbird, Yellow 

 Breaster Chat, Brown Thrasher, L. B. 

 Marsh Wren. 



T. E. McMullen. 

 Camden, New Jersey. 



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 not you, dear reader, help us? 



—Editor. 



