THE ATLANTIC SLOPE NATURALIST. 



63 



United Starts. Well does the editor 

 of The Atlantic Slope Naturalist 

 remember the impatience that accom- 

 panied the awaiting of the next issue 

 each month. Later the name of the 

 journal was changed to The Oologist 

 and for a few years quite a degree of 

 excellence was maintained, until the 

 business interests of its editor appar- 

 ently necessitated a neglect of his edi- 

 torial position. That the resumption 

 of publication will give us The 

 Oologist as it was in its palmy days 

 is the sincere wish of The Atlantic 

 Slope Naturalist. 



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Errata. 



The following errors recently crept 

 into this journal and the corrections 

 are as follows : 



In No. 3 the article entitled "The 

 Sora Bail" by Mr. J. Harris Reed, is 

 Beverly, N.Y. ; it should be Beverlv, 

 N.J. 



In No. 4 the name of Mr. Richard 

 C. McGregor is incorrectly spelled. 



In The Study of Nestling Birds by 

 Dr. R. \V. Shufeldt in the last issue 

 the illustrations should have been pro- 

 duced much better than they were, as 

 the half-tones were perfect, as all 

 would know who are at all familiar 

 with Dr. Shufeldt's work. 



In W. E. Rotzell's records of the 

 Tennessee warbler in No. 3 the dates 

 should be September the 19th, 1895, 

 instead of September the 20th, 1895; 

 and September the 20th, 1897, instead 



of September the 19th, 1897. The 

 former specimen was rceorded in The 

 Nidologist for June- July, 1896. 



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The Passenger Pigeon. 



By August Koch, Williamsport, Pa. 



Every year we hear more or less 

 about wild pigeons, sometimes the}" 

 are seen in the Eastern States and 

 other times just this side of the Rocky 

 Mountains, but in most or perhaps 

 every case, they turn out to be either 

 Mourning or other southern doves and 

 possibly the Yellow -billed and Band- 

 tailed pigeon. 



It was the 15th of September, 1885, 

 when several friends and myself 

 arrived at Lakefield, Minnesota, to 

 spend a week at chicken hunting. A 

 few days later I was standing alone 

 on the prairie and taking pleasure in 

 observing the industrious work of my 

 dogs, when a single grey bird ap- 

 proached from the far distance, it was 

 coming low along the short grass, in 

 rapid flight. As the bird came closer, 

 it had the appearance of a blackbellied 

 planer, as they appear at that season 

 —when it arrived within range and 

 was rolled over on the grass, my sur. 



