Identifier: oist39albi (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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ed Charges col-lect even if such museum is to be-come A world repository of birdseggs available alike for the inspectionby the humblest student and for re-search provided the Oological Scien-tist, and collectors of world, will sup-ply us with the material. The writers collection is the resultof his own individual effort, and in itsaccumulation we have not leaned inupon the generosity, nor sentiment oany kindly disposed old ladies. It takes sand to descant upon crowd-ing, as the general fault of most col-lections after publishing in Vol. IMarch 1920 the illustration of 47 Hum-mingbird nests jammed into one smalldrawer. Another shinning example ofhow not to do it appears on page 11of the August 16th. 1921 issue of TheJournal. Here are shown 17 Wrensnests, arranged to look as if they hadfallen into a drawer from a passingcart—but no Sand seems to have ac-companied the upset. The unfortunate thing for theMuseum of Comparative Oology, andits Journal is the extraordinary, THE OOLOGIST 167
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ms THE OOLOGIST volume of offensive ego which leersat us, in its self appointed leadership,through every act, movement, and pub-lication, of its director, whose ideallyartistic temperment sees nothing butI. That Mr. Dawson is so pre-occupied by self contemplation andself exploitation as to have neithertime nor patience to proof read hisown outstanding fault, is no reasonwhy he should so continuously inflictit upon the other Oologists of the coun-try—not even on the office boy. R. M. Barnes. THE HISTORY OF ROBIN SNOW-BALL—AN ALBINO During the last week of May 1922, alady living in Henry, seven miles frommy home in Lacon, Illinois, hearing acommotion in her yard, glanced out ofthe window and saw a white babyRobin, on the lawn, fluttering its littlewings and opening its mouth at everybird that went near it. The little fellow was too young to beable to fly, apparently very hungry,and seemingly deserted by its parents,for an observation extending over aconsiderable time disclosed, no b

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