AMERICA?* OSP^EY. 



Paul B. Haskell, Editor and Publisher. 



A monthly issued on the first of each month, devoted 

 to the study of Ornithology and. Oology. 



Enteral at the Post- Office of Antihunt, A';/., as second- 



class mail matter. 

 Advertising rates far nis'ved on application. 

 We solicit all correspondence p'ttaining to Birds, 



their Eggs, etc. 



Subscription, 25 c. per year. 



As has been previously stated that the 

 American Osprky would issue for its 

 July number 3000 extra copies besides 

 its regular subscription list, making a 

 total number of 3,800 copies. We must 

 say, we have fulfilled our statement to a 

 dot. 



Where, oh where, is the Wolverine 

 Naturalist ? 



If subscriptions continue to pour in, 

 as has been the case the last month, the 

 Osprey will have a larger circulation 

 than any other ornithological paper pub- 

 lished in America. 



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The American Collector, New Chester, 

 Pa., is a neat, monthly publication, de- 

 voted to Philately. It will be enlarged 

 lo eight pages, and name changed to 

 The Collector with the July issue. 

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Mr. 11. Stanton Sawyer, Garland, Me. 

 will cease publication of the Maine Orni- 

 thologist and Oologist, as he has been 

 unsuccessful in entering his paper as 

 second-class mail matter. The subscript- 

 ion list, etc. will be turned over to the 

 American Osvrey, and we will fill all 

 subscriptions for the present year. 



COW BIRD. 



This bird is so common all over the 

 United States that I would not attempt 

 to tell anything new about it, but one 

 author said he never heard of more than 

 four eggs being found, but I found seven 

 Cowbird's, and one Oveubird's in the 

 same nest. All the eggs were fresh, and 

 I have no doubt that if we had been a 

 day later there would have been more 

 Cowbird's eggs and none of the Oven- 

 bird's eggs. 



Fori know that Cowbirds remove the 

 eggs of the other birds either before or 

 alter it has deposited its own. 



I saw some place that some one tested 

 that, and found the eggs within twenty 

 feet of the nest, but I went every day to 

 a Bluebird's nest in a hollow tree and 

 every time there was one less Bluebird's 

 and either one or two more Cowbird's; 

 at the end of one week there were six 

 Cowbird's and not a single Bluebirds 

 egg. This bird is well worth the study 

 of all naturalists; for how did that bird 

 raise the eggs seventeen and one-half 

 inches and out of a hole two inches in 

 diameter? I can see how it can scrape 

 the eggs out of a common nest built in a 

 fork in a tree but the other is entirely 

 above my comprehension. 



I looked for broken shells, but could 

 find not the least sign of any within twen- 

 j ty feet. They must have been carried 

 some distance. 



L. B., Des Moines Iowa. 



BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH 

 CAROLINA. 



Cotile riparia (Linn.), Bank Swallow.— 

 Not seen much except during the miga- 

 tory season and then they swarm in 

 great gangs and skim over some open 

 place in search of food. 



Ampelis cedomni (Vieill.), Cedar Wax- 

 wing. — This species is very numerous 

 about here some springs, while in others 



