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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r result, and an easier conscience, and, betterstill, a satisfaction that I have not diminished the bird-lifeto any extent. As a matter of course I find many freshsets later than the allotted time for the particular species :these I do not take, as they are usually second attempts atbreeding, and if disturbed would entirely break up theirnesting, and thus really diminish bird-life. Something ofmy idea may be gathered from the above, and if everyOiilogist would carefully study the breeding season, meth-odically conduct his collecting and refrain from the too-prevailing grab-all system, I am of the ojiiniou that c.nl-ogical collecting might be pursued without decreasing ourbirds to aiiv alarming extent. —r*. )■. Weld. HKrKivKV.—Morriv M. Oreen, E. CarMnii Tlniihir, Kr-iimt I). Wiiitle, Faleo, Hari-j/ G. Parker, ». O. Kinerxiiii,Clark ). Strealor, Iter. C. M. Jones. Our eorrexpondentH irill confer afarnr hii irritimi their tir-tielea 1)11 one niile nf jmper only. ^ M:A.IICH, 1886.
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Entered at Boston Post OfHce a? Second-clasp Matter. _,,,,^;;!^ CONTENTS Vol. XL, No. 3, March, 1886. .33.34.34.36 Birds of the Sea Islands Walter IIoxie Florida Birds in December A. L. Buowne Red-tail Hawk Geo. P. Elliott OoLOOT Nest of Long-billed Marsh Wren 36 Breeding of Barn Owl near Philadelphia II. G. Parker 86 An Oological Axiom 36 Early Breeding of Anna Hummingbird W. O. Emerson 37 A Seasons Notes from Bristol Co., Mass., Part I F. M. Merck 38 A Trip to a Swans Nest H. II. Brimlet 39 Editorial 40 A Hybrid, S. pallida and S. breweri G. L. Toppan 40 Practical Taxidermy P. B. Webster 41 Connecticut Warbler Rev. C. M. Jones 43 Last Dates of Migratory Birds at Montreal Ernest D. Wintle 44 A Plea for the Hawks Falco 4t Entomology.—Editorial Notes 45 Practical Entomology Wright and Bates 45 Sphingidie of New England.. Cyanide 46 Are the Lost Mandibles of Coleoptera Reproduced? Cyanide 4T Collecting Cychrus L. E. II 47 Correspondence.—The Medium of Bird Protection, Etc , 48 hFor

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