Excerpt from The Ornithologist and Oölogist, Vol. 6: Birds, Their Nests and EggsDuring the winter of 1874 - 5, while con ducting an ornithological department in a western amateur paper called The Reper tory, the writer with a very indefinite idea of his undertaking, but with a certain con viction that the periodical literature of America poorly represented the science of oology, while the broader subject of ornith ology did not count a solitary popular ser ial devoted entirely to the wants of those interested in birds and their eggs, conclud ed to commence the publication of an ama teur paper eminently for the Oologist.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.