. The oist . se thatyou could not see the ground betweentheir bodies. On our own Delawaremarshes and also on Long IslandSound the ducks are there nowsimply in myriads. Here in Pennsyl-vania all fall the fields and lowlandshave been simply alive with Chicka-dees, a thousand times as many asthere were five years ago. And take the birds in general, theyare nearly all of them much morenumerous than in years past. Is thereany reason for suppressing the oolo-gist? I can see none. It is time tocall a halt in this bossing of the Au-dubon societies. This country seemsto have gone crazy on the bossing b
. The oist . se thatyou could not see the ground betweentheir bodies. On our own Delawaremarshes and also on Long IslandSound the ducks are there nowsimply in myriads. Here in Pennsyl-vania all fall the fields and lowlandshave been simply alive with Chicka-dees, a thousand times as many asthere were five years ago. And take the birds in general, theyare nearly all of them much morenumerous than in years past. Is thereany reason for suppressing the oolo-gist? I can see none. It is time tocall a halt in this bossing of the Au-dubon societies. This country seemsto have gone crazy on the bossing bus-iness. The women want to boss usat the polls: the temperance peoplewant to boss us when we get thirsty,the national Congress wants to bossthe trusts and banks; the doctors andthe legislatures want to boss us withtheir eugenic laws; and now after fiftyyears of patient study we are stoppedfrom collecting eggs when we needthem. Say, I am going to move outif this thing keeps on. R. P. Sharpies, THE OOLOGIST 57. 58 THE OOLOGIST The Migrant Shrike. I have never noticed a record of theMigrant Shril^e (Laniiis LudovicianusMigrans) (Palmer) in THE OOLO-GIST. As the bird is rather rare, afew records may be of interest. The first one I ever saw was on thesalt marshes at Revere, Mass., quitea few years ago and unfortunately Idid not make note of the exact date. The second one I found was at thesalt marshes bordering Forest River,Salem, Mass., on August 26, 1911. On September 2, 1911 I saw anotherone on the Revere marshes, and onAugust 24, 1912, I saw one at ForestRiver, Salem, Mass. Considering the rarity of this sub-species I feel very fortunate to haveseen four of them. H. O. , Mass. Collecting Birds I Began.—R. Magoon the years that past, before thedays of Audubon Societies, and kin-dred organizations, almost every boyat one time or another of his youth,made a collection of birds eggs. Itwas so in the course of the Naturalevolution of the future m
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