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ORNITHOLOGIST aM OOLOGIST. 
A MONTHLY MAOAZINK DKVOTKD TO TIIK STI OV 
OF HIUHS. TIIKIi; NKSTS AM) KOCJS. 
JOS. M. WADE. - - - - EJiUn- 
S. L. n’lLLAIll), - - - Axx’t Editor 
With the co-operation of able Ornitholosrh’al 
Writers ami Collectors. 
ijil.OO per aitiiiiiii. lO eeiils single copy. 
Alldress 
JOS. WADE. 
Rockville, Conn. 
The Oologist has done its good Yvork. 
has closed its monthly visits to onr rejid- 
ers, many of Yvhom Imve learned to look 
anxiously for its appearance. Onr jissoci- 
ate, Mr. Willard, who established the mag¬ 
azine, has given in another 2ihi’t of this is¬ 
sue a very concise history of it from the 
commencement to the end of volume five. 
This should bs read l)y all our readers, but 
more esjiecially the boys, for it will shoYv 
them what can be done by ^lorseverance. 
We are well awjire that the Oologist is a 
small magazine, but it contains much that 
will be sought for years hence. It will be 
one of the scarce Yvorks among book col¬ 
lectors. It has closed its career and Yve do 
not knoYV of a single volume for sale. We 
stand ready to juirchase every Ymlume of¬ 
fered in fair condition, even to the last one. 
and pay original cost. For the first three 
volumes Yve Yvill jiay .double the original 
cost. Is there another magazine in the U. 
S. that Yvill do this ? 
The Ornithologist and Oologist is noYV 
before our readers. The editor Yvhile imb- 
lishing the last eight numbers of the Oolo- 
GisT, has made many congenial acipiaint- 
ances and correspondents, and they will no 
doubt desire to hear something of the jiro- 
jiosed future of the little magazine. ^lany 
of our readers no doubt look iipon it as 
they d) other migazines pulilished for 
money, iu this case they are mistaken. 
Money does not enter into the considera¬ 
tion. It is juiblished out of pure love of 
the science of Ornithology and the ph-as- 
ure of corresponding Yvith naturalists. We 
have our hands full of business during the 
daytime, our magazine receiving our atten¬ 
tion in the evening, often into the “wee 
sma hour8”-of the night. We desire jiat 
ronage enough at least to jiay all exiienses, 
and as much more as jiossible. Whatever 
is received Yvill be ex]'ended on the maga¬ 
zine. Those disjiosed to help in securing 
subscribers can say that if any one at the 
end of the j-ear is not satisfied they can re¬ 
turn the numbers in good condition and 
have their money returned.^ 
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Correction. 
In the January number of the Oologist 
you call for a correction in reference to my 
finding the nest of the Bernida brenta on 
Saint Clair Flats, Michigan. I have no 
correction to make. I found the nest and 
eggs and saYv the birds as there descriiied. 
I have had fifteen years exjierience in col¬ 
lecting and mounting birds and am not 
easily deceived. I do not knoYv of any 
bird that could lie mistaken for the i3rant. 
If ]\Ir. KidgYvay Yvould like to examine the 
eggs found liy me, I Yvill send him one for 
that jiui’iiose. This is the only evidence I 
can offer until next season, Yvhen I am in 
holies of rejieating this year’s exiicrience. 
I am confident there are some birds breed¬ 
ing at the Flats that have not jireviously 
been found in the United States, from oli- 
servation of my oyvii and statements made 
to me by men Yvho have accomjianied me 
on my trijis. Several have mentioned see¬ 
ing a jiair of strange birds that had the aji- 
jiearance of Yvild geese but Yvere not much 
larger than Mallards. 
W. H. Collins. Detroit. Mich. 
[Since the above Yvas in ty])e Mr. Col¬ 
lins Yvrites us that he has sent an egg to 
Mr. Robert Kidgway for identification, Yvho 
decides that it is either the Hrant. ora small 
Yiiriety of Hutchins goose. If the latter, 
it is neYv to science. In either case it Yvas 
certainly a “good find. ”— Ed.] 
(liiEAT Cray Owl. — In rejily to Mr. 
Ridgway’s doubts about the (Ireat (Jray 
OyvI being found in Virginia Mr. Wm. T. 
