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THE OOLOGIST 



At Araminga, Philadelphia, Pa., at 

 6 p. m„ making 90 species altogether 

 seen.. 



Richard F. Miller. 



More Chaos 



The Auk, April 1918 (page 200) con- 

 tains the delightful information that 

 there are now under consideration 

 only 173 changes of names, additions, 

 eliminations and rejection of names, 

 etc., of birds now included in the A. 

 O. U. list of North American Birds. 

 However, care if taken to warn the 

 readers lest he commence his celebra- 

 tion too early, "that this list is intend- 

 ed to include everything pertenant up 

 to December 31, 1917 and nothing after 

 that date has been taken," for which 

 all bird students should be duly thank- 

 ful lest the list of proposed changes 

 should be swelled to unwieldy propor- 

 tions, too soon. It will be easier to 

 take it in homepathic doses. 



It perhaps will not be long until the 

 ordinary every day ornithologist will 

 not be able to recognze a Robin, Blue- 

 bird or Red-tailed Hawk when he 

 meets it on the street, because its 

 name has been changed and we as- 

 sume they will be changed in the 

 future and probably they will be 

 divided and sub-divided, revised and 

 subjected to additional revision until 

 the time may come when every man 

 having a back yard or a front lawn, 

 will be entitled to have his own 

 especially named sub-species or races 

 of birds whose habitat is only included 

 therein. Would it not be wiser to wipe 

 out all the names of all the birds and 

 start over again in order that the pres- 

 ent day bird doctor might have an un- 

 limited field in which to pursue his 

 nomaclature, and an opportunity to 

 define and describe sub-species and 

 geographic races which would be 

 "like unto but very different from" 

 everything else, ab libitum? Candid- 

 ly, isn't it about time that we should 



know definitely and finally the names 

 of our more common birds and that we 

 should abandon the idea that every 

 imaginary color phase of one or two 

 feathers on a bird of the same species 

 was intended by the Creator of all 

 things, to be a mark of distinction es- 

 tablishing a sub-species or a geograph- 

 ic race. — Editor. 



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