Identifier: ornithologisto111886pawt (find matches)
Title: Ornithologist and oölogist
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Pawtucket, Rhode Island : (s.n.)
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s. I have been informed by a taxi-dermist that a member of the committee offered to assisthim in procuring a permit, yet I have read some of his ad-vertisements which were scarely consistent with the in-terest of science as generally interpreted. I know thatanother member of the committee obtained a permit for ayoung collector who had taken so little interest in the sci-ence that he had never even heard of The Arik. Such being examples of the attitude of the Union to-ward the amateurs it has been rather exasperating to onewho understood the true utate of the matter to read thecontrary statements and unfair insinuations which havebeen furnished to the subscribers of the O. and O. of late,and I hojje that in future, you will find some better use foryour columns, or if you must print such stuff, to fill yourpages or to gratify some of your patrons, you will pleasenot publish it in the name of the amateurs, for they wantnone of ii.—Montague Chamberlain, St. John, K B. ^ ^ NOVEMBEn, 1886
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Entered at Boslon Post Office as Second-Class Matter. \\ CONTENTS. Vol. XI., No. 11, November, 1886. Some Ornithological Explorations in the Dead River Region of Maine F. n. Carpenter 161 Notes on Some Birds of the Great Smoky Mountains A. LkMotne, M. D 163 Field Notes on Some Birds of Colorado Chas. P. Morrison 164 Observations on the Development and the Decay of the Pigment Layer on Birds Egos A. M. MAldowie, M. D...i 165 Nest and Eggs of Short-eared Owl G-F. Brenninqer 167 Editorial ^^ New York Law on Song Birds W. B. C 169 Practical Taxidermy F. B. Webster 169 Nesting of the Mississippi Kite in Texas J. A. Singlet 170 The Western Gull in Captivity H. R. Taylor 172 The Swallows Have Come Dr. Morris Gibbs 172 Entomoloot—Samia Columbia R. H. Wolcott 173 Larval Habits of Beetles L- E. Hood 173 Conversation Between Beetles ...Walter Hoxie 174 A Hardy Bntterfly Paul Revere 174 Sphingidae of New England Wright & Bates 175 Errata and Notes • ^^■ Correspondence.—Amateur and A.

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