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Devoted to Oology, Ornithology, Entomology. 



Vol. I. 



NEWBUKGH, N. Y., AUGUST, 1893. 



No. 1, 



SALUTATORY. 



We wish to call your attention to 

 this issue of the Collectors' Monthly, 

 and hope that it will please as well as 

 interest all whom it may reach. 



Our columns will be devoted to ar- 

 ticles relating to Ornithology, Oology, 

 Entomology and otherNatural History 

 subjects, and will be from the pens of 

 some of the best writers in the country. 



We will endeavor to make this one 

 of the best papers of the kind pub- 

 lished, and by so doing we hope our 

 efforts will be appreciated by our nu- 

 merous readers. 



All advertisements appearing in our 

 columns will be responsible dealers, in 

 whom our subscribers may place their 

 entire confidence. 



To the old subscribers of the " Col- 

 lectors' Monthly," published by Char- 

 les H. Prince, of Danielsonville, Con- 

 necticut, we wish to state that their 

 subscriptions will be tilled by us, he 

 having placed his list in our hands. 



It may also please the subscribers 

 of the " Oologists' Journal " to know 

 that we also intend to confine their 

 subscriptions. 



Hoping that they will become our 

 friends, and also all those who may 

 receive a copy of our paper, we sub- 

 mit to you this, our first number. 



A Word for the Hawks and Owls. 



By J. H. Langille. 



There is no notion in the general 

 mind of men more erronious in refer- 

 ence to birds, than that which pre- 

 vails in respect to the Birds of Prey. 

 All Hawks are supposed to be either 

 " Hen Hawks " or '• Chicken Hawks," 

 and their sharp beaks and claws, as 

 also those of the owls, are supposed to 

 serve no other purpose than that of 

 destruction in the poultry yard, 

 among game birds, and in respect to 

 useful birds in general. The state 

 legislation, therefore, which would sig- 

 nalize itself by some popular enactment 

 which must meet general applause, 

 sees to it that good bounties are pro- 

 vided for the destruction of these ma- 

 rauders. The country gunner who 

 would step into popular favor, kills as 

 many Hawks and Owls of all kinds as 

 possible, and hangs them on a leafless 

 tree in the front yard in mid-winter, 

 that all may see and emulate his pub- 

 lic spirit. 



The naturalist has long since learn- 

 ed, that as a class, these are among the 

 the most useful birds in the protection 

 of agricultural pursuits. Shakespeares 

 "•Mousing Owl" is still doing service, 

 when most other birds, as well as the 



