. The Oist . n egg of a Song Sparrow, and ofone uniform pure buff, one of a set of five,all alike, and the third laying by a pairwhose two previous sets had been deeplyspotted, all identified by myself. It is notuncommon to fiiid spotted and unspottedeggs laid by the name female in one set, innests of Agelaiuspha;niceus, Quiscaluspur-pnreus, Scolecophagus ferragincus, Sayor-nis fuscus, nigricans and Say us, Empido-nax traillii, pusillus, flaviventrts and ditfi-cilis and others. How can these well knownfacts be reconciled with the uniform theory; of your correspondent? In the appositelines attr
. The Oist . n egg of a Song Sparrow, and ofone uniform pure buff, one of a set of five,all alike, and the third laying by a pairwhose two previous sets had been deeplyspotted, all identified by myself. It is notuncommon to fiiid spotted and unspottedeggs laid by the name female in one set, innests of Agelaiuspha;niceus, Quiscaluspur-pnreus, Scolecophagus ferragincus, Sayor-nis fuscus, nigricans and Say us, Empido-nax traillii, pusillus, flaviventrts and ditfi-cilis and others. How can these well knownfacts be reconciled with the uniform theory; of your correspondent? In the appositelines attributed to Clarence King : The gentle sclieme of uniform lawCan never quite satisfy me. T. M. BUEWEK. AriJiL 18.—Found a uest of the White-rumped Shrike containing six eggs. Thenest was built in a solitary osage bush ina pastuie close to the road. Apx{IL 29,—Found a Robins nest withyoung just hatched. D. II. Eaton. Birds are nesting this season somewhatearlier than for two years previously. 12 THE OOLOGIST. with the March number. With this num-ber we have issued the index to VoUime III,which will be sent to all of our subscribersto that volume. Tfie ©«rogist FOURTH PUBLICATION YEAR. APRIL, 1878. Sending Silver in Letters.—A greatmany subscribers and patrons state that theyare obliged on account of the scarcity ofpaper currency to send postage desire ,to say that silver in small a-mouuts may be safely sent in letters, andwe will take the responsibility of amountsless than $ so sent. Larger amountsshould be sent by post-office orders or inregistered letters. The many encouraging notices given usby the press, are, we can assure our friends,a most pleasing testimonial to us of thecordiality with which our journal is receiv-ed. May we hope that our efforts will con-tribute much toward the elevation of thescience we advocate. Wk consider it rather imprecedented inthe history of ornithological journalism tohave 85 per cent, of the subscriptions re-newed. However,
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