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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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be securedwith an instrument of low price, if of that size. A few dryplates can be carried in a light, tight box, in the coatl)ocket, or better still in the plate-holders, and nothing isre(;uired after the exposure, save to preserve from contactwith light, until some leisure day, when in the bringing outof the latent image and printing the photos, one can againlive over his pleasant trijis a-field. —/>. //. French. W. T. M.: The Iileated Woodpecker (//(//(i/oxu/.s-yf/Vcn-tim), is a resident in only the heavily wooded and inoiiu-tainous parts of New England; and we think your iiifoim-ant must have been mistaken when he alleged to havingshot one in Connecticut. R. C. RuHMONi), Iortland, Me: In our own exjierienceof preserving skins we have never found a substitute forarsenic, or some compoimd into \\hich it <iiter-. W. Aiiriids, A. H. Lu-kclt, A. L. lircntie,Walter Hoxie, C. S. lirhnley, F. II. Jackson, J. C. Cahoon. \ A.PRIL, 1886. ^
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CONTENTS Vol. XL, No. 4, April, 1886. Aptoso-Chromatism Walter Hoxie 49 Plorida Birds in January, 1886 A. L. Browne 50 List of Birds Observed in the Vicinity of Santa Barbara Clark P. Streator 51 Oology—Advance of the Science of Oology 53 The Number of Eggs Laid by Hawks and Owls 53 Wliite Eggs of the Bluebird W. E. Treat 53 Nest and Eggs of the Plumbeous Gnatcatcher Harrt G. Parker 54 Breeding of Franklins Gull iu Minnesota J. W. Preston 54 Editorials 56 Practical Taxidermy Frank B. Webster 57 Mexican brossbills in Kansas Prop. D. E. Lantz 59 Food of Crows in Winter Theo. G. Lemmon ,...59 Entomology—Editorial Note 60 Practical Entomology Wrigut and Bates 60 Sphingida; of New England Cyanide 60 A Deformed Prionus L. E. H 61 Start a Collection J. A. W 61 The Tarantula or Trap-door Spider Cyanide 61 Notes on Spring Collecting L. E. H; 62 Correspondence—War Against Taxidermists, etc 63 Recent Publications—Oology of New England * 64 i8i Devonshire St., Boston, LITHOGRAPHERS ALBERT

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