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of our name, i. e., " lloosier". No doubt 
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the long delay caused by moving to this 
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(Colorado, will think that we could make 
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W'e announced in the last issue of this 
paper, for appearance in the near futiu-e, 
"The Ornithologists, and Oologisls' Semi- 
annual". _ Jt gives us pleasure, at this 
writing, to state that a copy has been re- 
ceived. It is all and more than its pub- 
lisher claimed it would be— filled with 
excellent reiuling matter of especial in- 
terest to Ornithologi.sts and Oologists. 
tastily and apuropriately illusti-ated, and 
typeographically, the most fussy critique 
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on the second floor. 
Who saj's ('i-ows shun ci\ ilization? 
They maj- be seen fl\ ing over this city 
almost any hour during the day. 
Groundhog day came with a vigerous 
and persistant sim. As ISIr. Woodchuck 
coidd see his shadow from early morn [ 
till the sijii sank beyond the rockies, he I 
has undoubtedly pulled in for a long sleep 
and those disgruntled mortals who have 
been predicting an ice famine may see 
sometliing of Jack Frost yet. 
t.lipping.s. 
It is .-aid lliat in Florida, where thej' 
manufacture ice with a machine, freezing- 
takes place so gently that a spray of 
roses may be put into a tank of water 
and frozen into the mass of ice w ithout 
stii-i ing a petal from its place. There it 
lii-s imbedded in all its beauty of foriu 
and color. 
At luiliaiiapolis. liiil.. almost any day. 
during w.irni weather, you can see 
great cakes of crystal ice in the windows 
of the meat shops, in the center of (vhich 
is an imujense tisii. The ice of course is 
manufactut-ed and the fish w as placed in 
the water before the process began. It 
makes a beautiful and effective sign. 
[Ed. 
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books, etc., ColumbiLS, Ohio, has been suc- 
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Birds of (.Uu-roU ( 'f>unty, Indiana, by 
Barton W.Evermann. Extracts from The 
Auk, October,i888,and January, 1880. 
The list enumerates 203 species, and 
includes several, we should judge, rarely 
seen in 1 ndiana. 
L. S. Foster. Stationer. N. Y. (Jity. 
pidjlishcr of The Auk. has our thanks 
for two vei-y tasty calendars for 1880. 
LITERARY NOTE. 
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