Farmers and orchardisls should take particular 

 pains to protect the Chickadee. By judicious pro- 

 tection this species would increase very fast. 

 Let us protect it. 



[the end]* 

 EEEATDM- Page 7, line 20, read ravages instead of ravishes. 



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A White [Squirrel. 



On Sep't. 23rd. an old negro hunter brought into 

 town a pure white squirrel, which he had killed a- 

 bove town. The hunter says that he killed a simi- 

 lar one in the same place last year. 



Albert F.Ganier, Vicksburg, Miss. 

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The Western Ornithologist. 



Just as we go to press, we are in receipt of the 

 initial number of the Western Ornithologist, it be- 

 ing a continuance of the Iowa Ornithologist. In our 

 opinion it is the neatest paper of the kind ever put 

 out in the west. Printed on enameled paper, the 

 illustrations show up with good effect. Some o f 

 the leading articles are: "Plumage of the Bluejay", 

 "Cooper's Hawk", "A Winter Reverie", and "Notes 

 on the Birds of Boone County, Iowa". If future 

 issues are as good, we will only find one fault with 

 it, that it is not a monthly instead of bi-monthly. 



See adv on page 4 and send for a copy. 

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♦Life-history of the Chickadee began June 1899. 



