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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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to read, that tliey spend in cor-responding in regard to an exchange which whenmade proves to be a waste of time, ornithologywould be benefited. Instead of this, many spend allthe long winter evenings in arranging an exchangewith f)arties in distant localities, and in eight casesout of ten he could not hold up his hand and swearthat this partj had not swindled him. These arethe parties that should not receive permits to collect.Let the taxidermist take his place and mount all hewishes to a7i(l sell them too and I warrant the decreasein our native song birds will not be so great. Atail events the Tax can make up a bird to look wellwhile the other mentioned personages give us a cari-cature of what is, or ought to be, a thing of beauty,and perhaps a joy forever. More collectors areneeded in this section, and if more were in the local-ity of the four corners, (Arizona, Utah, New Mex-ico and Colorado), great things might be accom-plished. Charles r. Morrison. ^gr ^(SiKto *A.UGUST, 1887.**-
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Entered at Boston Post Office asSecond-Class Matter. •■»/;o.Tal \ CONTENTS. VOL. XII, NO. 8, AUGUST, 1887. Local Raptores, Bristol County, Mass Hilton B. Read 117 Plight of the Osprey F. H. Carpenter 120 Notes on Some Birds of Warwick County, Va Charles L. Phillips 121 Occurrence of Ivory-billed Woodpecker on Pritchards Island Walter Hoxie 122 Amount of Food Consumed by a Barred Owl C. S. Brimley 122 Nesting Habits of Texas Birds Harry Atwater 123 Number of Eggs laid by Great Horned Owl ....W. S. Strode 125 Nesting of Brown-headed Nuthatch C. S. Brimley 126 Two Species of Kinglet as observed at Raleigh, N. C 127 Wood Ibis in South Carolina Walter Hoxie 128 An Egg Lifter 129 Nesting of Great Blue Heron Harry R. Taylor 129 Anent Hawking .- Walter Hoxie 130 Nesting of the Virginia Rail in New Hampshire S. Albert Shaw 131 Sense of Smell in the Black Vulture Walter Hoxie 132 Spring and Fall Plumage of our Shore Birds F. H. Carpenter 132 Migratory Movements of Herons Walter Hoxie 133 N

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