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Title: Ornithologist and oölogist
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Pawtucket, Rhode Island : (s.n.)
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bird protection,pause long enough from their work at a heaj) of slaughteredvictims, to applaud the act. I hope to see the amateur recognized according to merit.Although my last birthday was my forty-seventh, yet I deemmyself but an amateur, and can rcniember very vividly theamateur days of some of the gentlemen now considered asornithologists in the high science term of the word. Itwould give me a great deal of satisfaction to record some oftheir crude work and blunders. The efforts of your caustic pen, Mr. Editor, in their be-half will be appreciated, for in a few years, when theseamateurs, by reason of profitable time spent in research,shall become the equal of any of the scientists, they willnot forget your magazine, which so ably defended them,and then your reward will be sulllcient.—71. C Af. In the prosecution of The Botany of Birds Nests,which will appear in these columns, we would like to com-municate with parties, of whom \vc can procure nests. .--V ^-^ SEPTEMBER, 1886. -^
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Entered at Boston Poet Office as Second-rfass Matter. ^/L CONTENTS. Vol. XL, No. 9, September, 1886. Some Ornithological Explorations in the Dead liiver Region of Maine F. H. Carpenter 129 Notes on Some Birds of the Great Smoky Mountains A. LeMoyne, M. D 131 Notes on Some Birds of the United States wliich Occur in the Mexican Fauna Juan Kenardo 132 A Day Among the Ospreys F. W. Andros 133 Editorial 136 English vs. American Taxidermists Wm. T. Hornaday 136 Practical Taxidermy 137 Hawking in June F. H. C 137 A Two Days Trip on the Jersey Coast Harry G. Parker 138 Breeding of Florida Barred Owl in Texas J. A. Singley 140 Nest and Eggs of Acadian Flycatcher E. J. Durand 141 Nesting of the Mississippi Kite J. P. N 142 Nesting of the Spotted Owl J P. N 142 An Albino Tree Swallow K. M. Barnes 142 Entomology.—An Ant Battle L. E. Hood 143 Salve Bugs J. A. Wright 144 Correspondence.—Botany of Birds Nests, Errata, Etc 144 I^emo-ved R. E. RACHFORD & SON.,^Collecting Naturalists,)^^ From G

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