. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . y of eachmonth, and will be better than it has ever been yet, since it first saw the lightof day in 18S4. A higher class of illustrations will be used and the best ob-tainable manuscript will be published. It will be full of live, original articleswritten by the best bird students in North America and embelli^hpH with hither-to unpublished pictures of bird life taken from nature. it will wage a relentless war upon all persons engaged in fror ornithology and will show up those who use its advertising columns for thepurpose of arran
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . y of eachmonth, and will be better than it has ever been yet, since it first saw the lightof day in 18S4. A higher class of illustrations will be used and the best ob-tainable manuscript will be published. It will be full of live, original articleswritten by the best bird students in North America and embelli^hpH with hither-to unpublished pictures of bird life taken from nature. it will wage a relentless war upon all persons engaged in fror ornithology and will show up those who use its advertising columns for thepurpose of arranging exchanges and then fail to settle the accounts of suchexchanges. We expect during the year of 1910 to double the present subscription listof THE OOLOGIST, and if so, the size of the magazine will then be the coming year it will contain each month at least two high classillustrations and eight pages of live bird matter, making in all one hundred twenty pages of the best bird literature of the day; and all for FIFTY CENTS. 208 THE OOLOGIST. I PLATE 21. King Rail on Nest at Philo, III. —Photo by Isaac E. Hess, June 10, 1909. THE OOLOGIST 209 KING RAIL IN ILLINOIS. — The seeker after nesting data of this swamp-loving member of theRalhis family, would scarcely choosethe eastern part of Illinois as a basisfor field operations. A trip through this (Champaign)county would discourage the most op-timistic Oologist were he bent on ac-cumulating information concerningSwamp birds or desirous of addingtheir sets to his collection. We are unfortunately situated(from a bird students point of view)in regard to swamps, being on a sortof divide, with our water courses run-ning away in each direction. North,South, East and West. No swampcould exist under our present drain-age system and we must be contentwith a few small ponds as the onlyrepresentatives of the gloriousswampy past when our parents couldwade into the ooze places and comeforth with aprons and baskets leaden
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