THE OOLOGIST. 



173 



EDITORIAL. 



Owing to business complications, 

 the result of too many "irons in the fire," 

 have been unable to give the Oologist 

 or my mail business the prompt at- 

 tention they deserved during the past 

 seven months. Thanking my friends 

 and patrons for their patience and 

 charity, I will now try to make up 

 for it as fast as possible. 



We notice the color plate in the 

 last issue of "Warbler" of three eggs 

 of Carolina Paroquet laid by pair of 

 birds kept in captivity by Robt. Ridge- 

 way. 



The plate is fine and the eggs agree 

 with the conception of these rare 



Mr. Dunn's article on the Calif. 

 Cuckoo suggests some comparisons. 

 The nesting habit like the eggs is 

 evidently more like the Yellow-billed 

 than the Black-billed until you get 

 to the interval between the eggs 

 where the California bird seems to in- 

 cline to the Black-billed style. 



I have generally found the sets of 

 Black-bill small in the West. New York 

 usually 2 eggs and incubation I find by 

 careful observation is generally de- 

 layed until the 2 or 3 eggs, rarely 4, 

 are laid. 



The Yellow-bill begins incubation at 

 once and sometimes lays as many as 

 6 eggs at long intervals. 



I have found a young bird and a 

 perfctly fresh egg in the same nest, 

 eggs formed by most oologists from 

 descriptions, though we may seldom 

 look at the real article. 



Pure glossy white, size varying be- 

 tween 1.30x1.17, a broad egg to 1.42x 

 1.06 for an elongate specimen. 



Mr. Childs believes there was a 

 decrease in English Sparrows around 

 Floral Park this past summer. He 

 asks for information on this point 

 from other localities. 



Certainly they show no material de- 

 crease around Rochester, N. Y. I 

 think the contrary. 



The egg fraud is still in the land. 

 Look out for him. A whole collection 

 examined lately contained nothing 

 rarer than Cowbird, Cardinal and 

 Mocking-bird. 



While no copy of Friend Reed's 

 new "Bird Guide" has yet reached our 

 table, we can safely presume that it 

 is convenient, tasty and big value 

 at the price quoted. 



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