. The Oist . j;ed to reserve for our April num-j ber, among which are two or three papersof great importance to oologists. We expect to publish, in the course ofthe summer and fall, an exhaustive paperon the nests and eggs of the North Ameri-can Ardeidce, to be illustrated by an engrav-ing of the typical egg of every known spe-cies. This feature of our journal will makeit invaluable to every young student of or-nithology. THE OOLOGIST. Tfte ©bro^ist FOURTH PUBLICATION YEAR. MARCH, 1878. E^UKATUM.—28th line, 2vA column, 94thpage of our February issue, for climing readclimhing. Our Cover.—We are
. The Oist . j;ed to reserve for our April num-j ber, among which are two or three papersof great importance to oologists. We expect to publish, in the course ofthe summer and fall, an exhaustive paperon the nests and eggs of the North Ameri-can Ardeidce, to be illustrated by an engrav-ing of the typical egg of every known spe-cies. This feature of our journal will makeit invaluable to every young student of or-nithology. THE OOLOGIST. Tfte ©bro^ist FOURTH PUBLICATION YEAR. MARCH, 1878. E^UKATUM.—28th line, 2vA column, 94thpage of our February issue, for climing readclimhing. Our Cover.—We are proud of our cov-er. The design, we have reason to believe,is an excellent one, and contains at leastfewer inconsistencies than our old heading ;yet, we have no donbt some critic will seek,and that all our readers anticipate, an ex-planation of the picture and the objects rep-resented therein. It was our aim to incul-cate in the reader an admiration for nature,and to present a pleasing and acceptable il-lustration of the field into which our studyleads us. In the foreground, across thelower corner of the cover, appear three eggsstrung upon a straw ; our sense of the prin-ciples taught in our own journal obliges usto relieve ourselves at once, from any possi-ble imputation concernin2; the barbaroustreatment of our specimens, that may havealready formed itself in the mind of thereader, by stating that their interesting po-s
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