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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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curus Chaffinches (Fringilla-coelebs)and Green finches (Ligurinus chloris)were equally common and that day the ers, it could easily be mistaken fora duckling. But when upon the baresthint of intrusion upon its privacy, itdives noiselessly without disturbanceof the water with the rapidity of aflash of lightning, usually to appearno more within sight, it will be un-derstood that this is an old bird ina special sense of the term- 80 THE OOLOGIST Two nests of the European Magpie(Pica rustica) were noted. One ofthese was situated sixty feet from theground in a tall popular, while theother was but seven feet about thewater in a small bush on the edge ofthe lake. The latter nest was com-posed of large sticks placed on afoundation of mud and lined with root- fainter and fainter as the steamerswung far out into the lake and as anornithologist a feeling of regret cameover me, for I had probably seen thelast of the Valley of the Rhone andthe Black-headed gulls for many yearsto come. P. G. HOWES.
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No, 43 Nest of the Black-headed Gull, Rhone Valley, Switz., Apr. 4, 1310.Photo bv Paul G. Howes. lets and fine grasses. It contained anincomplete set of three eggs, palebluish-green, closely spotted andspeckled with olive brown and under-laying blotches of purplish-grey. I wasnow close to Villeneuve again and tenminutes later I was standing on theback deck of the S. S. Italic boundfor Vevey. I could hear the voices ofthe birds back in the valley, growing NEW SUBSCRIBERS:—A numberof our readers answered our requestin the Maj issue and sent in one ormore new subscribers each. This isthe kind of support that will keepTHE OOLOGIST up to its presenthigh standard. Why cannot each onego and do likewise? You can if youWILL. THE OOLOGIST 81 Notes On Four European Members ofThe Genus Baeolophus.Parus Major, Great Titmouse.Head and throat black; cheeks and apatch on the uaple white; back, rumpand tail coverts olive green; scapu-lars dark olive green; primaries andsecondaries bluish black, outl

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