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THE BAY STATE OOLOGIST. 



"Protect Our Birds." 



BY ALBERT G. PRILL, BUFFALO, N. Y. 



How familiar the term, but do our 

 people realize the fullmeaning? Look 

 over our land to-day, and what do you 

 see? In every city, village and town, 

 so called Ornithologist's and Oologists 

 too numerous to mention. And then 

 when you stop and think, and ask your- 

 self this question. What are they do- 

 ing ? And every true Ornithologist and 

 Oologist will answer the same as I. 

 •'Destroying Our Birds" by the thous- 

 ands. And for what? 



To furnish our people with orna- 

 ments. Go where you may, everywhere 

 you see our most beautiful songsters 

 pinned to the hat of some woman. 

 Our millinery shops are stocked with 

 them, and without them, they would 

 have no trade. 



"Oh !" people say, "there are plenty 

 of birds ; they can never kill them off." 

 "Look at the Robins, Blackbirds and 

 Sparrows." Yes ! look at them ; but it 

 is not them that they take. They take 

 our rarest and most beautiful birds, 

 and soon they will be seen no more. 



Is it right? Did He who created 

 all, place these beautiful creatures here 

 to be destroyed? No! they were 

 placed here to cheer mankind with 

 their cheerful songs. Think of it my 

 friends. Think ! that soon the birds 

 which you listen to every morning when 

 the sun is but breaking o'er the Eastern 

 horizon, will pass away. 



It is only the true Ormthologist and 

 Oologist that can look at this question 

 in this light, and realize its importance. 



Then rally my friends, and "Protect 

 Our Birds," yes by all means," Protect 

 Our Birds. n 



Common California Birds. 



The most abundant birds of this lo- 

 cality are the Brewer's Blackbirds and 

 the Crimson House Finch, better 

 known here as the "Linnet." 



The latter is a great pest to fruit 

 raisers, eating cherries and apples in 

 abundance, in season of ripeness. 



The California Quail is a very com- 

 mon resident and can be seen near 

 almost every farm house, if it has rot 

 been too closely hunted. In some in- 

 stances they become quite tame. 



Bullock's Orioles and Kildeers are 

 here becoming rarer each . succeeding 

 season j while Hawks, and nearly all 

 insect eating birds, are greatly on the 

 increase. This latter fact is hailed 

 with joy by fruit growers, who see in- 

 sect pests of every description annual- 

 ly increasing, which without are feath- 

 ered friends, would soon over run us. 

 T. E. Barlow, Petaluma, Cal. 



Exchanges and Wants. 



"Exchange" and "Want" notices inserted in this 

 department for 25 cents per inch each insertion. 

 Over that amount of space, 25 cents for each extra 

 inch. We will insert no notices, which are merely 

 indirect methods of soliciting cash purchasers. 



Terms, cash with order. 



I desire to exchange first-class Birds' 

 Eggs, either in sets or single, with other 

 Collectors. Correspondence solicited. 



J. B. Hubbard, 

 43 Fenn St., Pittsfield, Mass. 



To exchange — Birds' Eggs, in sets, 

 full data for such sets as 1 may want ; 

 also one Ballard Rifle, 22 cal., for sale 

 or to exchange for eggs in sets. 



H. W. Davis, 

 P. O. Box North Granville, N. Y. 



To exchange — First-class birds' eggs, 

 in sets with full data for V nickels 

 without the word "cents" also for Ten, 

 Twenty-five and Fifty cent old fashion 

 "Shin Plasters." Address, H. W Davis.. 

 Box 34, North Granville, N. Y. 



To exchange — First-class, original 

 sets of Nos. 1, 11, 12, 13, 22, 67, 135, 

 149a, 153, 170a, 197, 204. 211, 214, 

 231,240b, 242, 244, 254, 261, 263, 

 278,278b, 282, 289, 315, 378, 387, 

 388, 460, 763, etc., for first-class sets 

 of species not representad in my col- 

 lection. J. W. Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa. 



