. The oist . er desirable offers in books or anything eserelating to natural science Makeoiiers. GRIHBLE, B )X213, Austin, Texas. Botany, books en Taxi-dermy, violin, banjo, cornet. Will give tirst-ciass eggs in sets with data, small egg cabinet,rare lerns of Vermont, mounted, egg tiays^double barreled gun All answered. C. VANT, Williston, Vermont. NOW READY.—--Bird Nesting in NorthWestCanada, full of illustrations ol birds and theirnests and eggs, hunting scenes, Indian camps,etc. The Colored plates of Birds Eggs are ex-cellent, send 12 CIS in stamps for samples ofCo


. The oist . er desirable offers in books or anything eserelating to natural science Makeoiiers. GRIHBLE, B )X213, Austin, Texas. Botany, books en Taxi-dermy, violin, banjo, cornet. Will give tirst-ciass eggs in sets with data, small egg cabinet,rare lerns of Vermont, mounted, egg tiays^double barreled gun All answered. C. VANT, Williston, Vermont. NOW READY.—--Bird Nesting in NorthWestCanada, full of illustrations ol birds and theirnests and eggs, hunting scenes, Indian camps,etc. The Colored plates of Birds Eggs are ex-cellent, send 12 CIS in stamps for samples ofColored Plates and Birds, and list of testimou-als from tliose who have read this RAINE, Toroit >. Canada, Eggs of California Murre-Collected iu 1)2 by the eggers onthe Faralloues. Oue specinieii, pv-e-piiid, iia cts.; tluee, ()0 els.; six $1.( express at purchasers ,$ per pozen, $iU.()U per 100. FKANK h. LATTIN, Albiou, M. Y, VOL. IX. The OoLOGiST. ALBION, N. Y., DEC, 1892. NO. 12. Eggs ok the Calikoknia MuKiiK.—Frojnj^/ioto by C. Barloiv. Professional Egging; or the Collecting ofMurres Eggs in California- What kind of binlsare tlioseV, wasone of the numerous queiies I pro-pounded a deck-hand on lilt tuuf-liiiat,while on my tri[) to the Faiallmie this .summer, We liail just steam-ed thi-i)n;rli the Golden Gilr into lliesurging Iaeilie, with the gray, iiaicn,.sloping shore on either side graduallyereej)ing away from ns. when a lloi-kof i)eaulifnl hiids, with hlaek liaeks instriking contrast to their snowy whiteiireasts, winged tiieir rapid tlight acrossthe water from a point near the shore,and giaeefnlly settled on the crest of awave, a short diitanee from the i) these were the lirst sea-i)irds I liadnoticed. I did md riiuognize tiiem at lirst, tliough I could have done so hadIreferreii to my prepared list of thebirds I expected to see on the , liowever, was keeping companywith a lime and a piece of codfish, (pre-ventatives


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