Identifier: oist09albi (find matches)
Title: The oist
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ds And One Egg Of Each The Following: Noddy Tern, BahamasForsters Tern, Lake MichiganFranklins Gull, Minn.Brown Pelican, Gulf of MexicoAmerican Coot, St. Clair FlatsRed-Shouldered Hawk - - Burrowing Owl, NebraskaAmerican Magpie, NevadaLoggerhead Shrike - - - Great Crested FlycatcherRose-breasted GrosbeakWestern Meadow LarkRed-headed WoodpeckerOrchard Oriole - _ _ _ White-winged DoveTexan Thrasher Dwarf Cow-bird - - - Carolina Wren - - - Barbary Partridge, AsiaEgg of Shark, Atlantic •• Hammerhead or Leopard Shark, Pacific $ .50 .25 -.25 1.25 7515752510 50 25251512 15120810303020 15 2515 ■25 $7-57 For 50 cents additional ($3.50 in all) we will send the copy ofDavies bound in Ix/ra cloth. To any person accepting this offerand enclosing $1.00 addittional, we will send a bound part of May-nards Birds of Eastern North America,—worth from $2.00 to$5.00. Earliest orders receive the most complete parts, or in factfully one-haK of his valuable $18.00 work. FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y.
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NESTS OF CANVAS-BACK & YELLOWHEADED BLACKBIRD. VOL. IX. The OoLOGiST. ALBION, N. y., JAN., 1892. NO. I Bird Nesting in North-West Canada-By W. Raine, Toronto, Can.* Jan. 18, 1891. Putting on mj^ rubber boots I went-down to the lake behind the cabin.Long Lake is about ten miles in lengthand half a mile wide. The CanadianPacific Railway crosses over it, and Iwas now at the south end of the lake. The lake is surrounded with tallrushes and wild rice which grows tenfeet high. The place swainiied withbirds, and only those who have visiteda similiar spot, can foim any idea ofthe number and varietj of Avild fowlsfrequenting such a marsh. Out in theopen water, were Red-heads, Canvas-backs, Scaups, and Ring-billed Ducks,Blue-winged Teals,Shovellers,Mallards,Western, Red-necked and Horned<irebe. Coots and other water-birds,while amongst the rushes were him-dreds of Yellow-headed Black-birds,Red-winged Starlings and MarshWrens. On reaching the margin of the lake Ibegan to examine the rushe

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