. The Oist . inch. B. J. Peckham. I SHOWED a single specimen of the Cas-pian Tern to some seven fishermen wholive at the shore, and not one of them eversaw one before. A single specimen of theTurnstone and Golden Plover are the onlyones I ever saw here on the marsh. Theyusually pass by well out at sea.! Westerly, R. I. B. J. PeCKHAM. Erratum.— Page 34, number 5, firstline under Practical Oology, omit egcji^before with. That the Horned or Shore Lark nestsin New York is now evident; nests foundduring the season of 1878 fully confirmthis. The birds probably build early, andsince numbers of them h
. The Oist . inch. B. J. Peckham. I SHOWED a single specimen of the Cas-pian Tern to some seven fishermen wholive at the shore, and not one of them eversaw one before. A single specimen of theTurnstone and Golden Plover are the onlyones I ever saw here on the marsh. Theyusually pass by well out at sea.! Westerly, R. I. B. J. PeCKHAM. Erratum.— Page 34, number 5, firstline under Practical Oology, omit egcji^before with. That the Horned or Shore Lark nestsin New York is now evident; nests foundduring the season of 1878 fully confirmthis. The birds probably build early, andsince numbers of them have, for the lastthree or four years, been observed in MarchApril and May, their supposed nesting sea-son, there can be no doubt many spend thebreedino; season south of the Canadas. *Our correspondent surely refers to T. fus-cescens and not mustelinus. The latter us-ually builds higher than the other Thrushesexcept the Ilobin. The former builds eitheron the -round or a foot or two above it. 44 THE OOLOGIST. Tfie ©5*lo3ist FOURTH PUBLICATION YEAR. JANUARY, 1879. SUBJECTS OOLOGICALLY OONSIDEEED. ATTACHMENT DISPLAYED BYBIRDS FOR THE IB EGGS. Under the first above title we proposeto publish a series of essays, which shallnot treat so much of the eggs themselves,as of the habits of birds during the nestingseason, and of the more generally slightedparticulars closely connected with the dep-osition of eggs. This series of articles, bas-ed upon observations made at various timesduring an extended experience, will be con-tinued in the succeeding numbers of thepresent volume. It is a well known fact to even the tyrocollector of any original observation, thatone class of birds will immediately leave thevicinity forever, if they imagine their nestto be discovered ; another will sometimesdesert the nest, and at others will not, ifthe eggs are touched or misplaced ; stillanother will not abandon the nest uidessrobbed, but will then certainly leave the vi-cinity ; a fourth class will sit q
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