Contents For April
[An Eclipse Among the Alps] H. F. Hegner. [Oologists vs. “Rage Collectors”] W. Hull. [Bird Destruction] Jos. M. Wade. [The Wood Thrush] Jas. B. Purdy. [Canadian Flycatchers,] Wm. L. Kells. [Bird Nesting in The North of England] Walter Raine. [Notes on Some of the Passeres of Fulton Co., Kentucky] L. O. Pindar. [Death of Prof. Charles Linden] Correspondence. [The Largest of Its Species] New York Sun. [Oological Correspondence] Jas. C. Jay. [Suggestions for Properly Forming Collections of Birds’ Eggs] Smithsonian Bulletin. [Notes.] [Migration Notes.] [How to Collect and Prepare Conchological Specimens] J. A. Singley. [The Scientist] H. F. Hegner. [Care of Minerals] W. S. Beekman.
R. E. RACHFORD & SON,
Collecting Naturalists
—AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—
BIRD SKINS AND EGGS,
BEAUMONT, TEXAS.
The Hawkeye Ornithologist and Oologist.
“Better to search the fields for health unbought,
Than see the doctor for a nauseous draught,
The wise for health on exercise depend.
God never made his work for man to mend.”
VOL. 1. CRESCO, IA., APRIL, ’88. NO. 4.