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Title: The oist
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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. 1-266. On the title page of volume ill, AliceEastwoods name alone appears as edi-tor; but the editors according to anannouncement on the inside cover, areT. S. Brandegee, Walter E. Bryant,Douglas H. Campbell, Alice Eastwood,Charles A. Keeler, Frank H. Vaslet,whose names appear on the permanenttitle page of volume iv, of which T. S.Brandegee is the proprietor. It doesnot appear who edited the final incom-plete volume, the last number ofwhich appears to have come from theUniversity Press, University of Cali-fornia, Berkley, California. This title is exceedingly importantto students of California birds. Theprincipal ornithological writers are A.W. Anthony, Walter E. Bryant, L.Belding, W. Otto Emerson and Chas.A. Keeler, with an occasional paper byHerbert Brown, J. G. Cooper, SamHubbard, Jr., F. O. Johnson, H. R.Taylor and others. —32- The OoLOGiST. Vol. XXXII. No. 8. Albion, N. Y. Aug. 15, 1915. Whole No. 337 Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N.Y., and Lacon, III.
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Col. Roosevelt, Pres. M. L. Alexander (center) and Game Warden examiningegg of Royal Tern, Breton Island, La. —Photo by Stanley Clisby Arthur 122 THE OOLOGIST Nesting of the Yellow Rail In North Dakota. (Coturnicops noveboracensis) In the southwestern part of BensonCounty., between the town of Esmondand the old Glacial River locallyknown as the big coulee, are to befound a number of wet, springy ormarshy tracts which are connectedwith the coulee by ravines or gullies.These ravines contain much of thissame wet springy ground. It was on one of these uplandmarshes, on June 14th, 1899, that Ifound my first nest of CoturnicopsNoveboracensis. The country at that time was newto me and I was tramping about justlooking for anything there was to befound, when I heard the sound ofeggs crushing underfoot. I lost notime in pulling away the dead grasswhich concealed the nest and foundone perfect egg and four smashedones. They were perfectly fresh. The nest was a thick, compact struc-ture of fine

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