vKy ''\, FOR THE PEOPLE FOR EDVCATION FOR SCIENCE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY THE OOLOGJST, FOR THE STUDENT OF BIRDS, THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. VOLUME XV. ALBION, N. Y.: FRANK H. LATTIN, PUBLISHER. 1898. A. M. EDDY, PRINTER AND BINDER. 1S9S. INDKX TO VOL. XV. /\. O. U., Report of the Fifteenth Annual Congrees of the D Association News, Oologists 4 Bii'd, to Illustrate the Terminology of the Plumage and Limbs. Dia- gram of a 6 Birds of Montana 14 Bird Haunts 37 Bird Show. Pet 87 Birds Recently Taken in Orleans County. Some Shore 21 Birds," Remarks on "Return of the. .84 Birds. The Effect of Storms on 74 Bunting Black-throated. The Dick- cissel or 32 Bobwhite 17 Breeding of Wilson's Snipe in West- ern New York 23 California. A Collecting Trip in. . .49 Cardinals. Stray 88 Cedar Lake 85 Collecting Trip in California. A... .49 Collecting Trip in Old Virginia. A. . .16 Coloration of Eggs. The 41 Correction. A 48 Cuckoo and Other Notes 70 Cuckoo Notes from Yates Co.,N.Y. . .70 Dickcissel or Black-throated Bunt- ing. The 32 Dipper. Nesting of the American. . .64 Discovery. A 88 Egg Collection. Saved by an 33 Eggs for Packing* Wrapping 32 Eggs of Greater Yellow-legs 48 Eggs. The Coloration of 41 Exceptions 19 Flycatcher. Traill's 24 Qoidfinch in North-eastern Iowa. The Nesting of the American 39 Grackle. Purple 71 Herons. Great Blue 5 Hummingbird, The 77 Illinois. Prairie Horned Lark in. . . .27 Imitation that imitates. An 63 Iowa. The Nesting of the American Goldfinch in North-eastern 39 J unco in Western New York in Sum- mer. The Slate-colored 72 [^aniiike in Western New York. The Status of the Family 7 Lark in Illinois. Prairie Horned 27 Lark in Western New York. The Horned 69 Montana. Birds of 14 Murre as a Western New Yorker. The Brunnich's 35 Names. Pronunciation of Scientific. 20 Nest of the Barred Owl. A 16 Nest of Phoebe. Two-storied 63 Nesting of Sturnclla magna neglecia Early 12 Nesting of the Am. Dipper 64 Nests. Elevated Towhee's 21 Nests of the Wood Pewee 45 New Jersey. Ring-necked Pheasant in 81 "Nomenclature of Colours." Ridge- way's 85 Notes on Road-Runner. Additional. 36 Nuthatch. Nesting Habits of the Red- breasted 55 Ontario. Raptores in Elgin Co 46 Oulogist for 1898. The 40 0(")logists Association News 4 Orleans County. Some Shore Birds Recently Taken in 21 Orleans County. Breeding of Wil- son's Snipe in , 40 Ornithologists Cruel. Are 13 (Jtocoris in Western New York 42 THE OOLOGIST Owl. A Nest of the Ban ed 16 Owl in Western New York. Nest- inor of the Short eared 54 Parulas. A Day With the n? Pheasant in New Jersey. King- necked 81 Phoebe. Two-Storied Nesi of 63 Photographing of Birds, Their Nests and Eggs. The 51 Photographing. Further Remarks on Ornithological 59 Plumage and Limbs. Diagram of a Bird, to Illustrate the Terminology of the '..6 Prize Contest 86 Prize Contest. April 56 Raptores in Elgin Co. Ontario 46 Redhead and Ruddy 25 Remarks on "Return of the Birds" . . .24 Ridgeway's "Nomenclature of Colours" 85 Road-Runner. Additional Notes on. 36 Shrike. The White rumped 3.86 Snipe in Orleans County. Breeding of Wilson's. 40 Snipe in Western New York. Breed- ing of Wilson's 28 Sparrow. Bachman's 65 Storms on Birds The Eftect of 74 Sturnella magna negUcta Early Nesting of 12 Swamp. A Day in a. 73 Thousand Islands. Collecting Trip in the 60 Towhee's Nests. Elevatd 21 Trip A Februaiy iiO yirco solitariits cassinii and Other Notes. The Summer Homo of 29 Vireo. With Remarks on Our Six Michigan Varieties. The Yellow- throated 1 Vireinia. A Collecting Trip in Old . . 16 Vulture. California (Plate) 66 Warbler. Prothonotary 53 Western New York. Breeding of Wilson's Snipe in 23 Western New York. Nesting of the Short-eared Owl in 54 Western New York. Otocom in. .. .43 Western New York. The Horned Lark in 69 Western New York. The Status of □ the Family Landiion in 7 Wood Pewee. Nests of the 45 Yellow-legs. Eggs of Greater 48 The Oologist. TOL. XV. NO. 1. ALBION, N. y., JANUARY, 1898. Whole No. 140 The Yellow-throated Vireo, With Re- marks on Our Six Michigan Vireos. There are six species of Greenlets ia the Great Lake region, viz:— Red-eyed, Philadelphia, WarbliDa:,Yel!ow-throatd, Blue-headed and White-eyed. A few remarks ia a general way may not come amiss The Yellow-throated appears first in the vernal migrations; next the Red-eyed;then the Blue-headed, and last of all the Philadelphia. The Red-eyed is the most abundant and is very generally distributed throughout the State and I have found it in every one of the eighteen counties where I have observed. It breeds in low woods, high oak groves, heavy timoered for- ests, orchards and city yards, in pine- ries where mixed with hardwood, and in cedar and lamaraok swamps. If my readers will carefully make observa- tions as I have, they will find that the Red-eyed Greenlet is the best and most evenly distributed bird in the State of Michigan. No matter where you go, in the forest or in sections not too well cleared, whether in the city or unset- tled districts, if your ear is trained to distinguish, you will soon hear the simple notes of the retiring yet ubiqui- tous Red-eyed. Next to the Red-eyed comes the Warb- ling in point of abundance; this bird being given to local distribution and is always found in cultivated sections, never in deep forests. The Yellow- throated is next commonest; the next is Blue-headed; the Philadelphia next, and the White-eyed the rarest. Some bird students in Michigan claim that the White-eyed is not rare, but I have not been convinced that it is to be found in any numbers anywhere in this State. It is certainly only locally distributed in the Great Lake region, and in over a quarter of a century of close observa- tion I have not seen it in Kalamazoo county. The Blue-headed or Solitary Greenlet is quite generally distributed during mi- grations but is found usually in low woods and timber lands. It is found summering north of the 43d parallel but I have been unable to find its nest. The Philadelphia Vireo has been found in various quarters in Michigan and I have taken it in three counties, but it is never common, and so far as is known does not summer in our State; though it will undoubtedly be proven a nester in the Northern Peninsula by later ob- servers. I am familiar with the songs of our four common species, and I have carefully noted the nesting habits of the Red-eyed, Warbling, and Yellow- thi'oated in Michigan. The Yellow-throated Vireo almost in- variably arrives from the South during the last week in April, but in late sea- sons is not observed until after May first while in advanced springs they reach Southern Michigan by the tv/en- tieth of April or even earlier. Their presence is generally made known by their loud, defiant screaming notes which are somewhat like the rasping notes of the Crested Flycatcher. The song too, is loud and piercing, and is not agreeable when issued near at hand; but when heard coming from the forest at a distance is very pleasing, and will be remembered by a cultivated ear. After the manner of all of our dear Michigan birds, and I believe the rule holds good throughout birddom in the whole of Christendom, the Vireos are mated already on arriving. It is pleasing to think that birds are con- stant in their attachments and that they remain mated for years, and in all THE UOLUGiSr probability until death or capture sepa- rates them. The vernal skirmishes and battles are the natural outcome of the lonesome, but it is fair, I think, to admit that the same identical pair of birds visits the same locality, and after neighborhood differences are settled be- gin nesting, often in the same tree as in the last season. I have observed the nest in low bot- tom lands and one was built within twenty yards of the river. Others were found in orchards and the low horizon- tal branches of apple trees are often chosen. Two nests that came under my observation were built in forks in drooping lower branches of the common Northern hickory, Gary a tonientosa, and were in open tields. One nest was at the roadside and within the corporate limits of a city. It had not been dis- turbed and contained four young birds about ready to tiy. They were readily identified from their colors. This nest was at seven feet elevation. The low- est hung nest was placed at about four feet up, and I do not think that the average of all the nests I have found is over ten feet. The nest much resembles the struc- ture of the Red eyed in its main materi- als, but is a little larger and coarser and can be identified by a practical eye at any time during its construction. The situation chosen is similar to that selected by the other Greenlets, and al- ways in a fork, generally at the end of a branch. When the nest is completed it is adorned with spider's web to which is attached bits of lichens after the man- ner of the Hummer and Gnatcatcher; in truth these three species of birds are the only ones in Michigan, to my knowledge, who habitually ornament their nests in this manner. The Yel- low-throated is not as artistic in its dec- orations as are the Hummer and Gnat- catcher. This Vireo, after the general habits of the Greenlets, often allows a lapse of a week or two before depositing the eggs- after the nest is completed. This habit often leads to the early deposition of the Cowbird's eggs in the otherwise empty nest of the Red-eyed, but the Yel- low-throated is not much bothered with alien eggs, at least in my experience. The old birds do not seem much dis- turbed by the visit of the despoiler, and do not make the protest observed when a Warbling Vireo's eggs are appro- priated. The eggs are almost invariably four in number, never more, and are hand- somest of the Greenlets in Michigan, and are readily identified by their larg- er size and the more prominent mark- ings. It is unnecessary to describe them here, for all the descriptions in the world could not portray their beauties, nor the record of a thousand measurements assist in the identifica- tion of an unknown miscellaneous col- lection. The truth is. that too much valuable space and time is taken in describing the color, size and markings of eggs and birds, to the exclusion of more entertaining matter. I don't gauge my estimate of a man by the size of his collection of eggs, and I think more of those who are observant of the habits of our feathered friends than of the pseudo scientist who talks big and reads technical descriptions and yet can't go into a grove and tell the songs of our common birds. If a man or boy can add one good point of information concerning the habits of our Michigan birds, true lovers of the study of birds will acknowledge his worth as a scientist much more readily than in the case of the individual who amasses a whole raft of eggs by the proverbial collecting and exchanging; yet knowing only of the bare facts of how high, date, incubation, etc., etc. There are too many of this class of col- lectors in our land. After nesting duties are completed THE OOLOGIST. the Yellow-throated Vireos are silent and are like most of the woodland song birds difficult to find. Later in the season and after moulting they tune up like the Red-eyed and Warbling Vireos, but their second period of song does not last long, nor is it ever so loud or con- tinued an effort as the vernal burst. Morris Gibbs, Kalamazoo, Mich. The White-rumped Shrike (?). It is interesting to note how great a variation in the time of breeding of cer- tain species there sometimes is be- tween two points situated even within a few miles of each other. For in- stance, to compare the facts related by Mr. Short of Chili in the Januaay, '95, OoLoGiST and those related by Mr. Reinecke of Buffalo in the March '96 number with my own observations, I find quite a difference in breeding dates the tendency being towards earlier breeding in nearly all species mention- ed in this locality, than at either of the the points named. What Mr. Short said concerning the White-rumped Shrike is so at variance with my observations, th^t I am tempt- ed to relate my experience with this bird. There are few birds, I think, among all that visit us, that I am so thoroughly familiar with; and certainly there is none that I have taken more nests of. Here in Western Orleans, I have nev- er found a nest in June, but have found them times without number in April, the dates being, as a rule, the 27th and the full complement being never more or less than six. I did, on one occos- ion, find a nest containing six eggs as late as May 19th. but in this case I knew of this bird's previous set being taknn April 20th and this later nest was her second attempt at house-keep- ing. Didn't have the heart to take these. In this locality one should have his eyes open for nests in process of con- struction or possibly completed by the 15th of April, in some old apple or- chard or thorny hedge-row, not far re- moved from some dwelling. An old apple orchard is the preferred place, and the nest is very easily found, since the trees are perfectly devoid of any leaves or blossoms or anything to ob- struct the view until well along into May. One peculiar thing has happened in connection with my finding of the nests of this bird. In whatever locality, in March of each year, I have chanced to first note ihe arrival of the Shrike, in that immediate vicinity, during the fol- lowing month, I have found its nest. It seems that upon its arrival, it di'ops right down upon its future nesting site. The eggs of this species show consid- erable variation, the series in my col- lection varying all the way from n very sparse spotting to a spotting that al- most hides the background color of the shell. As regards the distribution of this species and its relative abundance in this locality would say that each square mile of territory is the home of about three pairs of birds in a season. The dates of my finds are as follows^ each set consisting of six eggs and be- ing perfectly fresh, viz: April 25, '86, April 26, '86, April 26, '86, April 27, '86, May 17, '86. April 27, '87, April 28, '87, April 29, '87. April 27, '88, April 27, '88, April 28, '88. April 26, '89, April 29, '89. April 27, '90, April 28. '90. April 28, '90. April 29,. '91. April 26, '92. April 27, '92. From this it will be seen, that there is virtually no variation in the breed- ing time of this species, either on ac- count of a backward seasoo, or for any other cause. There is much that might be written concerning this interesting species, but it is so well known and widely distrib- 4 THE OOLOGIST. uted that perhaps I would be unable to say anything new respecting it and so will rest myupen. Neil F. Posson, Medina; N. Y. Oologists' Association News. During the year just past our associa- tion has acquired ten new members ■(not many, but all of them of a kind that adds strength and stability to an organization such as ours), as follows: J. ParkerNorris and J. Parker Norris, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; A. H. Frost and R. C. Woodhouse, New York City, N. Y.;W. A Davidson, Detroit, Mich.; J. W. Daniel, Jr., Lynchburg, Va.; J. Warren Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa.; W. J. B. Williams, Holland Patent, N. Y.; C. F. Stone, Branchport, N. Y.; and Verdi Burtch, Penn Yan, N. Y. March 15th last, the Executive Com- mittee published Bulletin No. 1, the contents of which is known to you and which aided materially in securing the new members. The edition numbered 500 copies, and there remain only about 3.5 of same yet in the hands of the Sec- retary-Treasurer and myself. In my annual report of Jan. 1, 1897, I appointed Jos. A. Dickinson, Gres- ham, Neb. to prepare and compile notes upon the order Baptores, but for some reason there was no response from the members in the way of notes. In view of this I hereby continue this work until such time as Mr. Dickinson shall have sullieient material to justify the preparation of a report such as this Association should be able to issue. Please send copy of all your notes upon the subject as soon as possible. If you have nothing to report send him copies of data of sets of Hawks and Owls in your collections; these in themselves are valuable to show breeding dates, range, €tc. The proposition to amend the con- stitution of this Association as submit- ted in the November Oologist having received a two-third vote in the affirm- ative is adopted. Please change your copy of the constitution to conform with same. As our organization is now establish- ed upon a sound footing, it is advisable to take up a work for which there is a very urgent need. One of the prime ob- jects of the Oologists' Association is to protect oologists against fraudulent, unscrupulous and dishonest individuals in the exchange or purchase of speci- mens, etc., and with that end in view I hereby appoint Brothers J. ParkerNor- ris, Jr., 723 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.; W.J. B. Williams, Holland Patent, N. Y. and Jno. W. Daniel, Jr., Lynch- burg, Va., as a Committee on Frauds. This committee will receive all com- plaints and reports of fraudulent or dis- honest dealings, investigate same and report a list of those found guilty to the Executive Committee of the Assoc- iation. This list will be published in a forthcoming bulletin. It behooves everyone interested in the welfare of our favorite study to at once send full particulars to this committee of any dealings wherein there has been dis- honesty, and all the members should help to make this very important branch of our work a success. At the I'ecent election of officers (Dec. 1 to 20, 1897) all the present officers were re-elected. On account of the amended constitu- tion there is a vacancy in the Executive Committee, and I hereby appoint Robt. C. Woodhouse of New York city as Ex- ecutive Committeeman for the term commencing Jan. 1, 1898. Edward Arnold, Battle Creek, Mich, and Dr. R. L. Jessee, Philo, Ills., have been elected to membership in the As- sociation. ISADOU S. Trostler, President. Omaha, Neb. THE OOLOGIST. The Oologist. A Moiiilily Magiv/.lno Devoted to 05LOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor nnd Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. c'orrosponileiioo and Items of lut.orost to tho student of Hlrds, tliclr Neats and Kggs, sollclttid from all. TPniMS OK SUBSCRIPTION: Single aiiliserlpt Ion riOc per annum Sample eople.s Tie eaeh The al>ove rates Ineliide payment of postage. Kueh HubstTlber Is gIviMi a eunl good for a Want,' Ivvelmui^t' or li'or Sale Not lee. 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Due Hills and rards payable In advertis- ing will he honored only at regnhir rales In force at the dale oi l.ssmmci' of said bill or card. l{emlltanees^hould be made by Dralt. Kxpress or I'ostotllee Mimey Order, Keglsleied l,(-tier or Postal Nolo. lUiUsid I'. S. Postage Stamps of any deiuindnallon will be accepted for sums un- d(>r "ue dallar. Make Moiaw Orders and Drafts pa\ able and address all subscrlpllons a'ul com- muidcatlons to KKANK II. K-XTI'IN. Albion, t)rleans t."o., N. Y. CKTiniD AT TMI POST O'PICI AT AllllON, N. T., A9 HCOND-CUASS MAntR, Great Blue Herons. For throo weeks hiul w»i boon iimkin^ calculations to visit a lioroiiiy, wiiioli wo wore told was in a blaok ash swamp 8OIU0 ton inilos from hero. We had lived here for upwanls of forty years and had not learned of its oxistenco un- til last year. As wo could only go on Saturday when the boys wore out of school, and it had rained for two or three succeed- ing Saluriiays, wo began to think that we should be disappointed until May I'Jth, which bidding fair for a pleasant day, wo hitched up and taking an oiilo- gist's paraphern;ila and our dinners we started oir. A very pleasant ride, but longer than nocossary, as we got beyond the object of our search before enquiring and wore then told that it was half a mile back and some twenty or thirty rods otT tho road. They said wo would lind lots of Cranes as they were there tho other day and shot lifteen of thorn, but we must look out and take a stick along for they would light if wo disturbed their nests. We wont as ilirected and sure enough there they were and as wo api)roachod their tion to help balam-e themselves on their tall stilt-liko legs on tho swaying limb, they seoniod much better adapted for a habitation on terra tirma than in mid air. Their nests too wore a sight to behold. l?tiilt away in the tops of tho trees on liml>s that did not seem capable of holiling them up, as big as a two bushel Icisket, and from one to eight in a tree wo thought wo had got paid for our drive if we got no eggs. Our next object was to sco what was iu them. Tho empty, broken shells underneath told us that many had hatched and we might be too late. 6 THE OOLUGIS'J" Jumpiug from bog to bog or running the length of some prostrate log we soon reached a tree with half a dozen nests in it and prepared to go up. We had a rope ladder that we could put up forty or fifty feet, but as there were no large limbs that would hold us, had to resort to the climbing irons. One of the boys soon went up and after working an hour or so secured two good sets of eggs, which he let down in a pail with a string which we measured and found to be ninety feet long. We all had good appetites for dinner by the time he reached the ground, which we soon disposed of. The boys botanized a little to rest themselves, then started for another tree contain- ing eight nests, most of them near the body of the tree. The other boy tried his luck this time. Ninety feet above ground, in the top of a swaying tree, with a good stiff breeze blowing is not a very delightful place to work for a landsman. A couple of hours and five more sets were secured, thirty eggs in all. We had learneu something from our forenoon's experience, so sent the boy a long fish pole with our drinking cup securely tied to one end. With that he could scoop out the eggs from those nests out of reach; even securing a set from a neighboring tree near by. The nests were built entirely of twigs, with a slight depression on top for the eggs, and were woven or packed so tight together that they could scarcely be pulled apart, and would fall to the ground without breaking to pieces. Some of the nests contained young, and all of the eggs were more or less incubated so that we only succeeded in saving two-thirds of them. Two of the sets contained five eggs each, the rest four. The eggs in the sets of five were decidedly smaller than those of only four. But few of the birds kept in sight while we were around. Forty nests could be seen at once; but should think there were sixty or seventy in all, on about an acre of ground. They visit the little lakes around here during the summer and most any even- ing about sundown can be seen winging their way to the southwest, and many a morning on first rising have I seen them fly up from the lake shore but a few rods from the house. C. M. Slayton, Grattan, Mich. Diagram of a Bird, to Illustrate the Terminologfy of the Plumag-e and Limbs. 1. Forehead. 2. Crown. 3. Nape or occiput. 4. Lores (space in front of eye). 5. Supercilium. 6. Cheeks. 7. Ear-coverts. 8. Upper mandible or maxilla. 9. Lower mandible. 10. Culmen or upper profile of max- illa. 11. Commissure or line of junction, of the two mandibles. 12. Rictal bristles or vibrissa;. 13. Chin. 14. Throat. 15. Breast. 16. Abdomen. 17. Back. 18. Rump. 19. Scapulars. 20. Primaries (the earlier or outer- most 9 or 10 quills of the wing). 21. Secondaries (wing-quills spring- ing from the radius and ulna.) 22. Tertiaries. 23. Lesser wing-coverts. 24. Median wing-coverts. 25. Greater wing-coverts. 26. Primary wing-coverts. 27. Winglet or bastard-wing. 28. Upper tail-Go's erts. IHK (X'M.OCIST 29. Tail-feathers or rectrices. 30. Under tail-coverts. 31. Tarsus. 32. Hind toe or first toe or hallux. 33. Innt-r or second toe. 34. Middle or third toe. 35. Outer or fourth toe. Flanks or sides of body are the parts approximately covered by the closed wing. Axillaries are the lengthen feathers springing from the axilla or region be- neath the base of the wing. Supplementary bristles or hairs are those springing from the side of the forehead in front of the rictal bristles. Naral bristles or hairs are those springing from the front of the forehead and covering the nostrils. Measurements should be taken in millimeteres or in English inches and decimals, thus: Length — The distance from the tip of the bill to the tip of the longest tail- feather, unless otherwise stated. Tail — The distance from the root of the tail, generally indicated both in the fresh and dried state by the presence of a piece of tiesh on the underside, to the tip of the longest feather. Wing — The greatest distance from the bend of the wing to the tip of the longest primary, measured straight. When the wing is curved, it is flattened out for the puepose of measurement. Tarsus — The distance from the centre of articulation of the tarsus with the tibia to the base of the middle toe. Bill — The distance from the angle of the gape to the tip. measured straight. The Status of the Family Laniidae in Western New York. Hitherto the status of the Shrike fam- ily in Western New York, and for that matter, throughout the northern por- s THE OOLOGIST "tion of the Eastern United States gen- erally, has been understood to be as follows: Three species occurring, — or rather two species and a sub-species. First the Northern Shrike (Lanius borealis) breeding in the boreal regions and com- ing down regularly each fall to spend the winter or a goodly portion thereof in this latitude; second, the Logger- -head Shrike {Lanius ludovicianus), an inhabitant of the southern states which but very rarely strays as far north as New York, although the editor of The OoLOGiST a few ypars since found the bird breeding in the vicinity of his home at Gaines, N. Y., and third, the White- Tumped Shrike [Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides) a varied form of the pre- ceding, occurring quite commonly as a summer resident and breeding in April and June. The above is the hitherto supposed status of the family in the northern East. Now, for a recent development. During one of my trips to New York City, early in the present year, I took time to run up to the American Muse- um of Natural History, where consider- able time was most profitably spent in the bird section. I was particularly in- terested in the collection of "Birds found within Fifty Miles of New York," arranged by Mr. Frank M. Chapman. Much time can be spent to good profit in looking over the collection. And I iound that no species of the White- rumped Shrike was present, but that the Loggerhead Shrike was represented as a common summer resident. This was the first intimation I had had that it was the true ludovicianus instead of excubitorides that occurred as a sum- mer resident in these latitudes. Mr. Chapman being at the time in Mexico I could not confer with him in regard to the matter, but later on I wrote him a letter asking him what he considered the true status of the Shrike in this sec- ition .and stating that I had always con- sidered that it was the Whiterumped Shrike that occurred here. His reply to my letter is as follows: "New York City, May 14. 1897. Mr. Neil F. Posson, Medina, N. Y. Dear Sir: — Returning from Mexico I find yours of April 12th. I am glad to know that you were pleased with our local collection, which has proven of much service to bird-students here. I consider all small Shrikes east of the Mississippi to be ludovicianus and you will find that the recent A. O. U. list confirms this opinion. Birds from Western New York are not typical lud- ovicianus, but I think are nearer to this form than they are to excubitorides. I have never had the fortune to work in your part of the state and cannot therefore give you any records. Should any come to my notice, however, I shall be happy to send them to you. Yours very truly, Frank M. Chapman." It was my intenlion, after learning this, to settle the Shrike question defi- nitely one way or the other, by secur- ing this season a number of specimens of our Western New York Shrikes and submitting them to experts for a care- ful examination, but this I have been unable to do, inasmuch as I have been away from home, practically, through- out the entire year. Here is a good field of work for some local ornithologist the coming season, who has the time and opportunity to col- lecta few specimensof our Western New York Shrikes. Let us determine wheth- er we have been working on erroneous premises all these years. Neil F. Posson. How to do it. All you have to do is, enclose in an envelope, 75 cents, stamps or postal or- der. I will send to you by return mail a well labeled collection of Shells and Curios from this locality. If you do not find them satisfactory return them and I will return your money. All specimens in natural state. W. H. HILLER, 147 W. 23d St., Los Angeles, Calif. The Oologist. VOL. XV. NO. 2. ALBION, N. Y., FEBRUARY, 1898. Whole No. 141 * Report on the Fifteenth Annual Con- gress of the A. 0. U. Arthur C. Parker, White PJains,N.Y. The fifteenth annual Congress of the American Ornithological Union, was held in the library of the American Museum of Natural History in Central Park, New York City, on the 9th, 10th and 11th of November. The sessions, with the exception of the business meeting on the afternoon of the 8th were open to the public. Owing to various reasons the writer was unable to attend the convention Tuesday morning and Thursday, hence the report will not be exactly complete, but information has been obtained from different sources though not as much in detail as is desired. An excellent paper was read Tues- day morning by Mr. Sylvester D. Judd, on the Protective Adaptations of Insects from an Ornithological point of view. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Chapman in an interesting address, told of his collecting tour in Mexico. At the first spot in which he camped, he collected but fifteen specimens dui'ing his three weeks stay, because of the intense heat which registered 96 to 98 degrees each day, whereas even on the Amazon dur- ing the collecting season it registered but 94. He exhibited numerous speci- mens which he had collected at his second stopping place near Mexico City. Among the interesting facts which he brought to notice was the dif- ference between the same species of the table-lands and those of the lower plains. He also exhibited an interest- ing species of black oriole which had * This Report was sent in for December Oologist, but through over sight was omited. —Ed. many characteristics of a woodpecker, although its bill was not of woodpecker shape. Ur. Coues examined this skin with evident interest. The Mexican thrushes were particulai'ly interesting, many having beautiful plumage and ex- quisite song, indeed Mr. Chapman said that the out- bursts of song from the myriads of bird throats sometimes nearly overwhelmed him. The skin of an American Robin, (Western type) was shown, and to prove that it bred in south central Mexico, he produced its nest and skins of its young. Several types of wiens and some interesting vireos were displayed, among which was the connecting link of the Warbl- ing and the South American vireo. Hawks in Mexico are so numerous that a flock at a distance was compared with a swarm of gnats. A remerkable fact which he brought to light, was that many song and wild-birds lived in the cities, making the air merry with their tuneful notes. At the close of this en- tertaining talk, Daniel G. Elliot, F.R.S. E., in his pleasing manner, remarked upon his discovery of a new species. Incidentally he said that he was like a certain Colonel placed at the head of a regiment, a well meaning man, but very nei'vous. This officer was placed in a very exposed position, and told not to move until so ordered. Soon balls began to whistle through his ranks and men on every side fell wounded or dead. It was not long before his legs began to tremble, and then to shake, being conscious of this he bent down and surveying his tottering legs ad- dressed them thus: "Oh you poor mis- erable legs, if you knew where I am going to take you in a few minutes, you would collapse altogether. He went. 10 THE OOLOGIST. on to say that he was like that officer, he did not know where he would take himself during his talk. He said he had published a description in the "Auk," fondly thinking that he had dis- covered a new bird, but, in the succeed- ing number Mr. Nelson gently and tenderly said that he didn't know what he was talking about. Mr. Nelson said, however, that he had read a description which exactly tallied with that of Prof. Elliot's. The chair then announced that if we would follow Mr. Chapman down into the "dark place," meaning the lecture room, that he would show some stere- optican views of his Mexican trip, to- gether with a series of others, among which were views of the dense tropical vegetation, his camp in the forest, and also a view of a very peculiar nettle plant, which if touched causes a violent stinging wound, having every appeai"- ance of a burn. This plant makes it very uncomfortable some times, when a rare bird is shot and falls in a thicket of them. A number of beautiful yiews of Gulls, Cormorants and the nests and eggs of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Yel- low-breasted Chat, Song Sparrow, Veery, and others were exhibited. The three plates showing a Puffin's burrow, its eggs and young were especially in- teresting, and a picture of the young of the Kittiwake in their cliff nest, af- forded a striking example of protection by coloration. Prof. AS. Blackmore showed an in- teresting set of plates, examples ot the recent advances in visual instruction. He showed what excellent results could be obtained by placing a properly focused telescope in front of a camera lense, for taking distant pictures, and said that rare specimens might be pho- tographed in this way, the exposure re- quiring but .01 second. A series of views, belonging to the Dept. of Public Instruction were displayed and ex- plained by Mr. Chapman. A field of daises and clover was cast upon the canvass and then in another view the feathered inhabitants; and so on a stream and the Kingfisher; the deep wood and its inhabitants. Two slides showing Cormorant life on a small island, west of Hawaii, with its millons of birds and many more millions of eggs. Recently Yankee enterprise has built a railroad through their breeding ground for the purpose of collecting their eggs, which they take by the car- load. Wednesday morning was opened by the secretary's report of the preceeding day, after which John N. Clark read an interesting paper on his ten day's trip in the mountains of northern New Hampshire. He seemed to have a happy faculty for finding nests. Among the things which he mentioned was that he discovered a Hermit Thrush's nest, containing four eggs, which his com- panion warned him not to touch, saying that if he did so the bird would either destroy or remove them. Laughing and saying that he was not so super- stitious, he examined them, and im- agine his surprise when upon returning again, he found the nest empty. Upon the close of his paper, Mr. Oberholser coroborated the statement, that the eggs of a Hermit Thrush sometimes suddenly dissapeared. He had watched the nest and eggs at a distance to see if the parent would return, and failing to do so, he had again looked into the nest, finding it empty. Evidently a mystery. The only plausable reason which could be advanced was that a snake had eaten them, the nest being on the ground, and consequently of easy access. The renowned, venerable Dr. Elliott Coues, in his original entertaining man- ner, gave an intensely interesting talk upon Audubon. He began by saying that "in 1826 there appeared in Eng- land an obscure man of fine form, strik- ing personality, and engaging manner. THE OOLOGIST. 11 In the short period of five years, this obscure man, was lifted from his ob- scurity into fame immortal." When he returned to America, he brought his wonderful portfolio of paintings of British birds in natural colors. Assist- ed by the secretar.y, Dr. Coues lifted the massive portfolio, (measuring 24 by 3i feet) upon the table. It had originally been very handsome, of leather and brass bound; although now it is very dilapidated, having lost three of its corners and being torn and scratched. .'But portfolios of Audubon's ai'e not always brought empty even to an A. O. U. conyention in the Museum of Nat- ural History." said Dr. Coues, and ■ every one anticipated a pleasant sur- prise, nor were they dissapointed. Pain- fully slow the eminent ornithologist •opened the covers and tantalizingly he 'Cut the string which bound the con- rtents, then held up one of the original drawings of John James Audubon. In his latter years Audubon had a very original way of drawing his bird pict- ures. If one had chanced to look at the drawing of one of his sons, they would have seen a funny vacant space in the middle, and it was into this space that Audubon pasted his bird picture, having cut it out around the edges, the boys drawings forming the background. But the question arose as to the descriptive matter for his many plates, and Dr. Coues held up the origi- nal manuscript of Audubon's Life his- tories. "Miss Audubon has a habit of giving a sheet of this manuscript some times, to her clo.se friends and insisted upon my taking two" said the scientist. Dr. Coues then pi'oceeded to give some interesting inside facts concern- ing Audubon's efforts to obtain a scien- tific man who could give satisfactory technical names to the birds which he had discovered and given an English nomenclature. His first efforts were to secure William Swainson who although very learned had a "w'eel in his head." In Swainson's reply to Audubon s letter he said that many times before he had offered to give technical names, but had met with solid refusals, and now that Audubon wished to use the knowl- edge which had taken twenty long years to acquire without giving proper credit even on the title page, he felt obliged to refuse. Thus it was that William Macgillivray was given the task of applying scientific names. This said Dr. Coues averted a terrible crises which would have taken place if either Swainson or Audubon had undertook. Recently Messi's. Charles Scribner's Sons have consented to publish Audu- bon's European Journal of 1833 and the Missouri Journal of 1843. Dr. Coues said that he had read the proofs, and so one can see that it is well under way. Audubonian societies are springing into popular favor and through their efforts an immense amount of good is being done both in protecting bird life and popularizing ornithology. At last the people are beginning to realize the im- portance of Audubon's woi'k, and have erected monuments in New York and New Orleans and others will follow. As the Doctor spoke he distributed a number of Audubon's original pict. ures of birds together with some of his son's, John Woodhouse, through the au- dience. A photo of Audubon's oil paint- ing as it hangs in the dining room of the family in Salem, N. Y., showed the naturalist as he appeared in his earlier life. Dr. Coues then summed up by saying that "when Audubon was good he was very good in his way, and when Audubon was bad he was very bad in his way" that is, in regard to his bird pictures. He then compared the rising young painter, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, with Audubon in this way and then criti- cized some of his pictures in a friend- ly way. After the Doctor had finished and retired Mr. Fuertes arose and walking up to Dr. Coues shook his hand, and although one could not hear 12 THE OOLOGIST. what he said, still one could see the broad smile which lit up the Doctors face, as he gave the young painter an encouraging pat. "Is Uniformity in Local Lists Possible?" by Mr. J. Dwight, Jr., received a great deal of opposition. His plan was to give technical words in th"^ first declen- sion for the names we now use to de- scribe birds on our local lists. The technical word is to be placed after the name of the species thus, he would have Downy Woodpecker (habitants) instead of, The Downy Woodpecker is a resident through the year, and breeds. His plan had its merits, it saved time in making lists, and would save a great amount of circumlocution, but the principal objection was the bringing so many more confusing foreign words into the study of ornithology would not be desirable, as already we have too many. Mr. Harry Oberholser then gave a brief address on Liberian Birds. He began by giving a description of the physicial conditions of the country and gradually led up to the subject of its feathered inhabitants. His descriptions were exceptionally good. Dr. Coues informed us that some- thing interesting was going to take place outside the Museum. This was rather vague but all followed Dr. Allen out side, where we saw two stuffed partridges, one in its natural feathers and the other with the back feathers of another bird fastened upon its breast, making it the exact color of the ground. Mr. Abbott H. Thayer explained that if we would stand back twenty-five feet or so, we would easily see that the ground colored bird was plainly visible, appearing black, while the other was much less conspicious. He had colored two sweet potatoes one dirt-brown and the other brown on top gradually shad- ing down to ashy underneath. They were strung on a wire so as to raise them from the ground. From a dis- tance of twenty-tive feet the brown sweet potato was very plainly seen, but the other was scarcely visible. These experiments were to show that animals having lighter under parts were much less comspicious than if they were a solid color, because, light coming from above east a shadow below, thereby making the lower colors look darker. This experiment was entitled on the program, "Further Demonstrations on Protective Coloration." On Thursday the Committee on Bird Protection made its report, which was read by the chairman, William Dutcher. He said that thousands of pamphlets had been distributed, and many news paper articles have been printed rela- tive to the cruelty by which feathers were obtained for millinei'y purposes, yet women pleaded ignorance and con- tinued to wear feathers. "The Terns of Penikese Islands, Mass" by Mr. G.H. Dutcher was an interesting paper which occupied a great deal of atten- tion. On Thursday afternoon at a few min- utes past four the convention adjourned. This years Congress was probably one of the most interesting held during the fifteen years of its exhistance. Early Nesting- of Sturnella Mag-na Neg-lecta. While hunting in the Spring of 1893 I found a nest of the Western Meadow Lark in a field near home. The nest was made of wire grass and was placed in a clump of grass. It contained two whole eggs and three broken eggs, so that the nest must have been finished March 10th. I am certain that it was a new nest for the birds were around. The eggs, were normal in all respects. H. D. Watts, Compton, CaL THE OOLOGIST Id The Oologist. A Montlily Magazine Devoted to OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. Correspondence and Items of Interest to the student of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited from all. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single subscription ^oc per annum Sample copies .^c each The above rates include payment of postage. 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I do not mean to assert that or- nithologists are never cruel, but that the true avian scientists are, as a rule, just as human as many other classes of intelligent men to whgm inhumanity is very seldom imputed. Of course we all know that in nearly every walk of life certain persons are encountered who are wantonly cruel. This unfortunate characteristic appeal's to be natural, and further, they do not seem to realize that they possess a tendency which in- duces others, of a more gentle and kind disposition, to judge them harshly. But let us revert to ornithologists in general. Are they cruel'' Many will say so hut principally illiterate or shal- low minded persons. Why? Because they do not give the matter logical con- sideration, but speak on the impulse of the moment. Very likely the ornitholo- gist has a deeper affection for his favor- ites of the feathered tribe, a more sin- cere admiration, and would do more for their general protection, than the very ones who call him cruel. In fact, I know he would, and I take my own inner-consciousness as a criterion, be- cause I am an ornithologist, and my thoughts and inclinations are open to my revisions, while those of my fellow lovers of the science are not. Orni- thologists kill birds and preserve their skins, because they have a thirst for knowledge; because they wish to know the birds better than can be done by meandering through their sylvan re- treats and making observation at a distance. I think that thirst for knowledge was placed in man by the Creator as an es- sential factor toward progression. And it is just as natural for man to satisfy that craving, as to drink to quench thirst, or to eat to appease hunger. We follow that pursuit, for which we have a natural tendency, and if our brain development leads us to become an or- nithologist, we must sacrifice more or less harmless birds so that we may not only educate ourselves but that we may learn that which will interest others to whom it is transmitted. Reptiles, beasts, and birds of prey, hesitate not to appropriate birds by the million annually to satisfy their hunger 14 THE OOLOGIST. for flesh, which was given them by the Omnipotent. When birds are ruthlessly torn to pieces and devoured they help to keep life in the captor for a few hours only, but when they are taken by the naturalist he preserves and keeps them in his private collection, or places them in a museum, where they usually remain many decades, and during that time they give hours of pleasure and instruction to ail lovers of natural sci- ence. After making this comparison can we conscientiously say that the ornithologist is more cruel than the designer of all things, who ordained that harmless and beautiful birds, of all kinds, should be rent and demolished by merciless beaks and fangs? I think not. It seems to me the cruelty of the naturalist is very small in comparison, and that the collector of birds, for scientific purposes, is perfectly justified by the glaring example set by his Maker. One more point. The naturalist is often called a cruel wretch by the mass- es. How far is their judgment consist- ent? With one, if you say: "That bird is a Kirtland's Warbler and its skin is worth six dollars, ' the person will im- mediately lose sight of the wickedness, and no doubt, he will want to try col- lecting specimens himself. Further, some think any thing that is very nice to eat, it is perfectly allowable and justifiable to kill. It matters not whether it be pretty or useful. That class will judge by their palate and stomach. Oh, shallow humanity! If God has willed that repulsive rep- tiles and brutal beasts shall have their choice of food from the most beautifui, gentle, melodious, and conesquently pleasing, of the animated species of the earth ought it to be called cruel if man in the interest of progressive knowledge destroys a few birds? Every intelligent reader, after due consideration of the subject in hand, will, I think, say em- phatically; "No !" Birds of Montana. In writing about the birds of Mon- tana, I will not endeavor to write about all the birds but only such as I have come in contact with this last summer and last winter. I will begin with the winter residents. Along in November when we have a cold wave we can see the little Snow- flakes flying about in flocks uttering their twittering ehirup: sometimes mixed with them may be seen a few Rosy Finches. There are not so very many Rosy Finches that winter in this locality, but there are quite a good many when it is very cold. The Snowy Owl comes down from his summer home and visits us during the winter, as can be shown by the number of stufl'ed specimens which are found among the different collections. I have seen the Canada Jay and Long-crested Jay here also but think they are only winter residents. Those of the birds which stay here all the year are not many. We have both the Golden and Bald Eagles which stay the year round. The Golden Eagle breeds here but 1 have been unable to secure any eggs. They build in pine trees. A boy told me last summer of finding a nest of a large black bird; he de- scribed the bird and the four eggs which the nest contained, and it must have been that of a Golden Eagle, but what was peculiar about it was that the nest was placed upon a hill side, which was pretty steep but not so steep but that the boy could walk up to it. There is an old nesting place near here where they have reai'ed their young for years. I climbed the tree and the nest was about five feet high. For some reason they did not build there this year, al- though I see them ai'ound. A young man told me he shot at one of them and that may be the reason for their leaving the place. THE OOLOGIST. 15 On the 12th of December I went to look after a bait which I had set for Coyottes and on the way near the bait I found a Golden Eagle lying upon his back, I walked up to it and saw where the Coyotes had danced around him, but the eagle was alive and had kept the Coyotes away with his large claws. I turned it over and it wobbled off a few feet and then looked at me. I went on to my bait and then came back and by driving the eagle and cari'ying him part way I got him home and put him in the stable. He seemed numb and stiff and I think he got a dose of strych- nine at my bait, but not enough to kill him. I feed him Jack Rabbit and he is getting quite lively. I saw three of his fellows today. I (io not know of the Bald Eagle breeding here but am told they do about fifty or sixty miles from here. I have seen the birds here but do not know why the Gallatin Valley is not blessed with at least one pair. Clark's Nut- cracker stays here the whole year and breeds in the pine covered hills. The Long tailed Chickadee stays here and breeds, I found a nest in an old stump. The nest was in a hole and made of fine squirrel hair; it contained 6 eggs pretty well incubated, so that I could not make a first class set of them, although I saved the set. The birds are plenti- ful but the nests are hard to find. Then we have four species of Grouse, the Columbian Sharp-tailed, Sage, Gray Ruffed and Dusky Grouse. I found four nests of the Dusky last summer but only secured one set; the others were sucked when I found them. The American Dipper I have seen here in the winter and know that it breeds here, as I have the nest and eggs which I collected last summer. The nest is a beauty, it is made of moss, which all sticks together in a ball, with a hole on the side for entrance, on the inside it is lined with dry grass and the bottom covered with dry leaves upon which rested the four white eggs which re- semble those of the Purple Martin. The summer residents are quite nu- merous but I will not mention all, as this article is getting too long. Lewis's Woodpecker breeds here, they make holes in live trees as well as dead ones in which to rear their young. I found a nest last summer and as both old birds were flying around and it was early for them to be laying, I was in no particular hurry to dig into their home, but a few days afterwards 1 went to the tree prepared with climbing irons, small saw, hummer and tacks besides a box and cotton, etc I got to the hole and started to measure the distance with a scoop net and found it to be about two feet, but listen, "What is that music which breaks on my ear?" It is the cries of the young birds. I come down the tree and leave them to their happiness. I had quite an experience with Mary- land Yellow throat. I found a nest situated in the ground, well hidd- en, it contained four eggs. I could not get a very good look at the female and as the male did not put in au appear- ance I had to flush the bird repeatedly and lie close to the nest while she came back and went on. I looked into the nest again and behold there were five eggs. 1 was quite sure what it was but to be real sure I decided to bring my gun along the next and secure the bird. The next day my brother looked into the nest and there were six eggs, two days after I came along with my gun, but before shooting the bird I looked into the nest, when I was surprised to find four young birds with two eggs just beginning to addle. I did not shoot but satisfied myself with a look at her and by finding another nest of the same species, the female of which was not so shy I saw what both birds were. We have at least seven species of Hawk and four of Owl which I am sure nest here as I have seen them here in 16 THE OOLOGIST. the breeding season. I have found the Long-billed Curlew, Bratramian Sand- piper and Killdeer with young. Amos F. Pyfer, Salesville, Mont. A Collecting- Trip in Old Virginia. It was a beautiful Spring, with that sweet freshness about it that only a TRUE lover of Nature can appreciate. The woods now covered with Spring flowers rang with melody from the throats of its little feathered inhabi- tants. The sweet song of the Cardinal, the Mockingbird and the Red-eyed Vireo could be distinguished from all others. In the distance tha loud raps of the Red-headed Woodpecker could be heard as he beat his morning tatoo on some lifeless tree. "Just a morning for a stroll in the woods!" I said to my companion, a true lover of Nature. "Right you are 'old Sport' and I'm with you." He said these words as he disappeared in the house for his collecting box. So arm- ed with the collecting box we started for a collecting trip in Old Virginia. As we strolled through the woods above described our attention was at- tracted by a peculiar humming noise above our heads. We turned quickly and were much surprised to see aRuby- throated Hummingbird swinging back, 'ward and forward in the air. We im- mediately sat down and watched the lit- tle fellow. After swinging there a few moments he flew and perched himself on a dead twig above our heads, and then again with a nervous quitter he alighted on a bed of moss. Our expect- ations were correct, his nest was near. My companion quickly fastened on his climbers and in a few moments was re- warded with two pearly beauties, pure white about the size of a pea. Placing these carefully away, we again started. We had gone but a few steps when a Whip-poor-will flew almost from under our feet leaving behind two beautiful eggs. The nest, if I may call it by that name, was only a pile of dry leaves. The eggs were cream colored, thickly blotched and spotted with light brown and lilac. We placed them in the col- lecting box and started again. It was at least a half hour before we found another but this time we were rewarded indeed. My companion had stopped to watch a saucy squirrel as he "skampered" away, shaking his bushy tail, as if bidding defiance to all man- kind, when a noise like thunder was heard to his i-ight and a magnificent Wild Turkey hen arose high in the air and disappeared in the thick brush in front of us. We both made for the spot from which she had flown and much to our pleasure found a neat nest containing 12 eggs. The ground had been slightly indented and lined with feathers, bark, etc. Packing these away we joyfully left for home. On our way back we found nests of Red-Eyed Vireo, Red-headed Wood- pecker, Cardinal, etc. After enjoying d good supper we went to bed and dreamt of the future when we would again take a stroll through the forests of Virginia. John W. Daniel, Jk., Lynchburg, Va. A Nest of the Barred Owl. On Mar. 24, 1894 I found a nest of the Barred Owl containing one egg. I re- turned on the 31st and took the set of 3 beautiful white eggs, on which Madam Owl had just begun the duties of incu- bation. The nest was in a cavity ;about 10 inches deep, in a hollow linn tree;, formerly occupied by a squirrel. The eggs were laid on a nice bed of leaves, evidently provided by the former oc- cupant. The cavity was only 28 feet from the ground. E. S. Crafton, Plattsburg, Mo. The OoLOGiST. VOL. XV. NO. 3. ALBION, N. Y., MARCH, 1898. Whole No. 142- Bobwhite. {Colinus Virginianus.) This species, the celebrated gamebird of the Eastern United Stutes, is common in suitable localities. The clover, wheat and sage fields together with pastures and woods are where they will be found. The greater part of the year the Quail is found in coveys pair- ing in early spring some time in April; then each pair selects a particular lo- cality whei'e they remain to nest dur- ing the summer. During the mating season the well known call of the male can be heard at intervals in the morning and late in the evening throughout the woods. By im- itating the call he will come running through the grass, stopping every few yards to listen or to look in all direc- tions to see if there is an enemy near, but if you have been perfectly quiet he will keep coming nearer until he finds out that he has been deceived. When you have him near, careful study will always bo rewarded by finding out something new and interesting con- cerning his habits, although a some- what common bird. It pays to watch even the commonest of our birds for we too often get the idea that if a bird is found in abundance it has no pecul- iar or unknown habit; the trouble lies in our not observing carefully. Their flight is one of the most mark- ed characteristics concerning them. When flushed it flies or rather sails swiftly in an almost straight line, which is one reason for its being prized so much by sportsmen. Sometimes it loses its life by attempting to cross a river, their strength giving out before the opposite shore is reached. Often after having been flushed sev- eral times they will alight in trees. Remember very well the first time I ever found any perched in trees. I was out gunning and had flushed a covey, but not being experienced in shooting, banged away in vain; the birds scaring me when they fiew up al- most as much as I frightened them with my gun, but I managed to see them as they sailed around a pine thicket. Thinking that I would re- deem myself next shot, hurried on, but when I reached the place my dog searched everywhere without any re- sult. Soon he began barking up into a thick pine and upon close investigation found the tree almost full of Bobwhites but as they had so cleverly hid them- selves left them undisturbed. This noted bird is about extinct in some localities and fast becoming so in others on account of the persecution it suffers. Some say that they pull down the heads of wheat and eat the grain. That may be true, but suppose it is, is that any comparison to the good these birds do? I say, "No," and if the stomach of one is examined ev- eryone else will say the same. Their food consists mainly of seeds of various kinds, berries, bugs and stray grain. In the winter when these are covered by the snow, they will be found hud- dled around trees, eating seeds of weeds and frequently will go into barn- yards to feed with the domestic fowls. During the severe winters in 1893 and 1894 hundreds of Bobwhites perished because the bugs were killed by the cold and the seeds were covered by the snow, so that the poor birds were left to starve and freeze to death. At this time they were very tame and and some heartless hunters took ad- vantage of their emaciated condition THE OOLOGIST. by goiuf? ouL and searching for a covey, which of course would be found hud- dled together, so that at one shot all were liiiled. One hunter told me of his getting over one hundred birds in this Avay, sometimes killing fifteen at once. With this going on, the Bobwhite will soon be compelled to seek shelter in the dense and retired woods, just like our most magnificent gamebird, the Wild Turkey, has done, having been persecuted by the so-called sportsman but whose proper title is the "Destroy- er and Persecutor of Innocent Birds." Another cruel way of killing them is by netting, a practice which has not been very long used. When a covey is found the net is put into position and the thoughtless birds allow themselves to be driven into it by men on horse- back. In this way the whole covey is caught. Once had the opportunity to see how this was carried out and I never wish to see such a scene again, 'for it was really heart-rending to see those home- less little birds murdered. Oh! if be- fore they went into their deathtrap, the thought would have struck the leader to fly, for then all would have followed and escaped the awful end which they met a few minutes later. Dogs had been sent out searching the fields and soon a beautiful pointer sud- denly stopped. Such a picture, with his left front foot slightly raised, his tail erect and every muscle quivering; for he had found a covey of fifteen Bobwhites, who thoughtless of the dan- ger which they were in, remained still. Soon a net was placed several yards in front of where the birds were, and two men came up on horseback to drive the poor birds into the net. The worse part was later on when all had been secured. Then the woi'k of destruction commenced. After the skulls of the innocent birds were mashed on the brain, they were thrown in a bag; there to die in agony. The Bobwhite is one of the best friends the farmer has and it is with a sorrowful heart that I think of the way they are treated in return for the harm- ful insects and destructive bugs, which would, if not eaten by these birds, destroy half his crop. One very sensi- ble farmer once said to me, ' Sevei'al years ago I would kill a Partridge as readily as a Crow but once I saw a whole covey in my wheat field destroying bugs and insects which would otherwise have ruined my crop and since then have never killed one." Another said, "Would rather have my best dog killed than a covey of birds." But still the destruction of our gamebird goes on and unless some new and unforseen re- striction arises, the familiar and well known note of the male will not be heard echoing throughout the wood- land or when we go collecting will we be surprised by the whirl and rustle of the wings of a covey which have been startled from its roosting place. May the day be far off when we shall say: "Once they were here but now they're gone The Quails have perished, we're left to mourn And weep without a comforter, These birds can ne'er return." All the larger Hawks are enemies to them, alttiough their food consists mostly of mice, grasshoppers, rats, frogs, etc., if a Quail is seen it is almost sure to be caught and eaten. I have seen both Cooper's and Red-tailed Hawks chasing these birds. It is very likely that many of their nests are brok- en up on account of being placed upon the ground, and but for the large num- ber of eggs laid, there is no doubt but that they would be very I'are by this time. The young from a nest, together with the pai'ents, will remain together dur- ing the whole winter if not disturbed. They always roost upon the ground sometimes in the middle of an open field, often in a thicket or in the woods, and when roosting they sit near togeth- IHE OOLOGIST 19 cr iu a bunch with their heads outward, lljiug ia all directii)iis when startled; then soon utler their call note and col- lect together. Their nests with fresh eggs may be found from April to July, two and sometimes (hi'ee liirds are rea'-ed in one summer The nest which is plac- ed in rrass, somi times under a bank, but more frcq>ieutl3" under a large tuft ■of sage or clover is not very easily found unless the female is Hushed; the mater- ials useil for construcli )n being only of grass put in a hollow scratched out by the birds. Both male and female assist in building but do not go very far from the nest for the material. It 'n arched over having an entrance on the side. If the birds are disturbed while build- ing it, ihey will leave, but only to go somewhere else and start another right away. The eggs vary in number. Nests have been found with ten eggs, the least, and twenty-five, the most, but fifteen to twenty is the usual number. The color of an egg is pure white; after remain- ing in the nest a short while it becomes stained. In shape they are pointed at one end while perfectly round at the other. They will not leave the nest until al- most trampled upon. When it does leave, if incubation has commecced, it •will not rise but runs along beating the ground with its wings and feigning lameness, trying to .lake the attention from her nest of eggs. The young leave the nest soon after liatched and have a peculiar peep simi- lar to a young Turkey and usually ut- ter it two or three times in succession. When disturbed they will give several loud peeps while the old birds will fly about the intruder keeping up a con- tinual fuss. Sometimes they will run around with their feathers ruflkd up and wings down making somewhat of a cackling noise. H. Gould Welboun, Lexington, N. C. Exceptions. These exceptions are nothing more than random notes but perhaps may be of value to fellow collectors. The Spotted Sandpiper {Actilus mac- wZ«;-i't), says Oliver Davie: "The nest is simply a depression in the soil, some- times constructed of hay and moss. The eggs like all those of the waders lay in the nest with the small ends to- gether." I found only one exception to the po- sition <.i the eggs in the Spotted Sand- piper—in this case the small ends were all lying in the same direction. I flush- ed the bird off the nest and the depres- sion the five eggs made in the nest showed they had lain that way for some time at least. As to the composition of the nest in this locality, the majority of nests were located beneath a weed or a willow shrub where bits of dead black leaves formed the lining for the nest. As authority for this I have sixty-five sets of Actitus macularia before me taken from nests none of which com- pared to that of Davie. Mourning Dove {Zainaidura vincr- oura). In speaking of the position of the nest of this species Davie says, "The nest is placed in the horizontal branch- es of trees or stumps or on the top rail of old snake fences or rocks, in bushes and in treeless regions near the ground." Out of personal examination of per. haps some three hundred nests of this Dove about one nest out of twenty was upon the ground and this is a well tim- bered country. Cooper's Hawk [Accipiter cooperi). Davie says, ''The number of eggs vary from four to six, rarely the latter num- ber, and they may be found in various sections between April 7 and May 20." Out of three sets of the Accipiter cooperi taken by me last year two sets were of three and one of four. The latter set was taken about June 20th. 20 THE OOLOGIST. One set of three was about half in- cubated so there could be little doubt but that the complement was complete. Yellow-billed Cuckoo {Coccyzus amer- ieanus^, "Being somewhat nocturnal in their habits, the notes of both our Cuckoos are often heard at night."- O. D. But he fails to note the nocturnal disposition of the Yellow-breasted Chat [Icteria virens) which sings tenfold more in noctus in this locality than does the Cuckoo. Belted Kingfisher {Ceryle alcyon) Mr. Davie says the number of eggs is six but when a full complement is laid seven or eight. Five and six and some- times seven constitute a set in this lo- cality. Red-headed Woodpecker [Melenerpes erylhrocephalus). Davie says, "The egg are five or six in number." On the 6th day of June, 1897, I examined a nest of .the Melererpes erylhrocephalus and found four young birds — one at least a week younger than the rest. While Mr. Davie made notice of the uneven hatching of the Cuckoos and Belted Kingfisher he never mentioned this fact in the Woodpecker which I have frequently noticed in my collect- ing trips. Wood Pewee (Con^opAiis virens). In concluding a desciiption of the nest of this bird Davie says- "Externally it is covered with pieces of lichens which are held in position by webs, and the structure thus ornamented is indistin- guishable from a natural protuberance itself." Out of a personal examination of over a hundred nests only one contain- ed any lichens at all. The remarks of my observations are confined to Park county, Ind. WiNFIELD S. CaTLIN. Herned Owls and Eagles eggs, but we found it too early owing to heavy rains and continued cold weather, so we re- paired to a grove of cypress trees and a number of Anna's Hummingbirds dart- ing about indicated nests. I soon found a nest 15 feet up on a horizontal cypress limb which proved to contain two eggs about half incubated. Mr. Osgood also discovered a nest of same bird and on climbing to it found one young and the remaining egg about to hatch. C. Barlow, Santa Clara, Calif. A February Trip. On Feb. 23, 1893 W. H. Osgood and I went to the mountains to look for Pronounciation of Scientific Names. Among the answers given in a recent OoLOGiST to the questions quoted in the September issue I find the author stating ai the end of No. 5 that it is bet- ter to adopt the English pronounciation for scientific terms. Will the author of this advice kindly tell why it is bet- ter for the nations having accepted the English language in their constitutions to adopt a method of their own, when all the other nations are apparently well satisfied with the Roman pronoun- ciation? Why alter an old established system when it is satisfactory in every way? Just to save some the trouble of com- mitting those few rules of pronouncia- tion to memory? I hope this is not the reason, for in my estimation it would be as just to adopt English terms altogether (as in- deed some have had the nerve to advo- cate) and throw our beautiful old sys- tem into the attic. 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She flitted off and alighted on a fallen log where she was joined by her mate and where both re- mained and scolded me during the few minutes I was in the vicinity. The nest was placed 44 inches from the ground and of the same construction as the above mentioned nest and contained thixe eggs of the same shape and mark- ings as those above. Returning on June 13 I found the nest empty and could distinguish three slight depres- sions where the eggs had rested. Louis W. Brokaw, Carmel, Ind. [Mr. Brokaw died Sept. 3, 1897. The above note was sent the Oologist a few weeks previous. — Ed.] r THE POST OFFICE AT f AS SECOND-CLASS I Elevated Towhee's Nests. Some Shore Birds Recently Taken in Orleans County. In reply to an article by Mr. C. Piper Smith in the April '97 Oologist I sub- mit the following notes. While returning from Indianapolis on May 21, 1897, in company with a friend we came to a dense woods bor- dering the road about 10 miles north of the city. He got over the fence and examined some bushes along it. Re- turning he informed me that he had found nothing but a grass-lined nest in The Order Limicolce or Shore Birds ought to be fairly well represented in Orleans County, for Lake Ontario forms our northern boundary. It seems that this order of birds that the bird- student become? acquainted with. In nearly every instance it seems that this is the particular branch of his ornitho- logical education that is neglected. I find that this is so in my own case. Perhaps this class of birds is more diffi- 22 THE OOLOGIST. cult to study by reason of their ever- varying plumage, as well as by reason of the fact that these birds frequent the seashore and the beaches of the inland lakes at those seasons of the year when man deserts these places. tjThe writer merely wishes to mention a few species which have baen taken along the beach of Lake Ontario in this county, the past autumn— not by him- self, however, but by Mr. Percy Smith ■of this place, to whom all the credit is •due. Mr. Smith did the gunning, and I ■with his consent, do the recording of his achievements. On September 9, 1897, along the bank of Lake Ontario, in the town of Carlton Mr. Smith secured a young male of the Semipalmated Sandpiper, a young male Semipalmatad Plover, a young female Black-billed Plover, and a young male Knot ( Tringa j canutus). The last mentioned bird is of rare enough occurrence in these parts to warrant more than passing notice. The Knot breeds in the Arctic Regions, and winters south from Florida, follow- ing very closely the Atlantic seaboard in the course of its migrations. Occas- ionally, although not often, in may oc- cur on the larger inland lakes during migration. Two or three specimens have been taken at different times on the Lake Erie coast in the vicinity of Buffalo. The specimen taken by Mr. Smith on September 9th is the first ona ever secured in this- county so far as I know. The Knot is the largest of the Sandpipers. This specimen measured as follows: Length, 10; extent, 20.50; wing, 6.25; tail, 2.50; bill, 1 3-16; tarsus, 1 1-16; middle toe, 1 316; middle claw, 3-16; head, 1 3-16. It was in company with a young fe- male Black-bellied Plover, when shot. The weather at the time was pleasant and had been for some time. Again on October 16, 1897, Mr. Smith spent another day at the lake, visiting the same locality. The day was not pleasant, but presaged an approaching storm of wind and rain. Various flocks of different kinds of Sandpipers were tlying from the beach out over the wat- er, and continually returning again. Four different species were secured by him. These were the Sanderling (Calidris arenaria), a young male, the Pectoral Sandpiper ( Iringa maculata) male, the Ked-backed Sandpiper or American Dunlin [Tringa alpiiia jiacif- ica), two specimens shot, both female young of the year, and the White-rump- ed Sandpiper(rrm5ra fuscicoUis),a, male. The writer does not consider any of these four. Sandpipers as vei'y common migrants here. The Sanderling is un- doubtedly more common than the oth- ers. The White rumped Sandpiper is very rare here, even more so than the Knot, leastwise fewer jof them seem to have been taken in this section, for I fail to find any published record of this bird having been taken before in West- ern New York, although" Mcllwraith mentions it in his "Birds of Ontario.'' A description of this rare Sandpiper as taken by Mr. Smith, may be of interest in this connection: "Sex, male; length, 7|; extent, 5i; head, 1: tail, 2; wing, 4 15-16; bill, 1 ; tai'sus, 1; middle toe and claw, about i; hind toe short and slight, about i; tibia', bare, about ^. Bill, black, mod- erately slender, fiattened at tip. Feet black. Toes, slender, not webbee. Top of head finely mottled with dark and reddish-brown and white. Back, dark brown, most feathers narrowly edged with reddish-brown. Wings, brown. Narrow, longitudinal white band formed by tips of greater coverts. Smaller feathers of wing either tipped with reddish-brown or white. First primary, longest. Tail-coverts, white. Tail, brown, with narrow white edges. Breast and sides of neck narrowly edged wtth fine brown marks on dirty white ground. Chin, white; and belly THE OOLOGIST. 23 and criisum, white. Front of wings mottled with grey and white below." Of the Red-backed Sandpipers two specimens were taken. There w«re quite a number of that species there, and very tame. They were in small flocks. I believe it is a characteristic of this species that they are not at all wary of approach. The gizzards of these birds as well as that of the Pec- toral Sandpiper contained small snails. While the account of these takings is hereby recorded by myself, I desire to to repeat that none of the credit is due to me, as I was in another state on each of the above dates. Mr. Percy Smith of this place is entitled to the credit, and if all of our bird-students were as careful, thorough-going and particular with each little detail as is he, we would all know more about our feathered friends than we do today. I have merely assisted Mr. Smith in his identifications. Neil F. Posson, Medina, N. Y. P. S. — I have unintentionally over- looked the fact that a Mr. Breed of Lyndonville accompanied Mr. Smith on these excursions to the lake, and he is doubtless entitled to a share of the credit. I desire to give credit where credit is due. N. F. P. Breeding- of Wilson's Snipe in West- ern New York. In Short's "List of Birds of Western New York" the Wilson's Snipe, Gallin- ago delicata, is reported as a migrant and common in some localities, there- fore it gives me pleasure to offer the following data as evidences that Wil- son's Snipe is at least a rare but prob- ably a regular breeder. In my locality they are common migrants, are occa- sionally seen in mid-winter and a few pairs remain to breed. My suspicions that they were nesting in this locality were first aroused in 1895 when I noted the birds ten miles north of here in Potter swamp as late as May 19, and they were verified on the 21st of May, 1896, when I found a nest in the side of a hummock containing four eggs which I have already noted in Vol. 1 No. 9 of The Osprey. I also had the pleasure of collecting another set of four eggs on May 12, 1897, by accidentally flushing the female which tried to lead me away from her nest by cutting up all sorts of antics. At first I thought surely her leg must be broken and when her wings began to hang helplessly at her sides as she fluttered around the hummocks, I thought that the poor bird must be in a dying condition' but when I stopped to examine the nest and she suddenly changed her tactics by running back and forth before me, jabbing her long bill regardless of its sensitiveness into the wood, and excitedly pulling up blades of grass meanwhile uttering a plaintive sound. The nest was rather boldly situated within a dozen feet of a much traveled road that crosses the swamp. It was placed under a wire fence in an open grassy space where the water was about two inches deep. It was scarcely con- cealed at all except by a few dead weed stalks and the fresh green grass that was just springing up around the nest. The nest of Wilson's Snipe is generally described as being a mere depression scantily lined with grasses, but in this instance there was no depression what- ever but a shallow cupped nest built of small weed stems and grass to a height of three inches with h diameter of six inches by actual measurement. The eggs were about half incubated which would indicate that about the first week in May is the proper time to look for fresh eggs. They are of a olive ground color slightly tinged with grayish. The spots are reddish-brown and form "en masse" on the large end and become scarcer and smaller towards the smaller ends and over all there is a few quite 24 FHE OOl.OGlSJ. spots of blackish in place of the usual sharp scratchy lines. The eggs meas- ure 1.56x1.03, 1.50x1.06, 1.6-2x1.09, 1.63x 1 09. Another instance of the Wilson's Snipe breeding here came to my notice about the first of June this year. A young lad showed me two eggs that he had taken early in May from a nest on a hummock in a swampy pasture about one mile north of here. C. F. Stone. Branchport, N. Y. Remarks on "Return of the Birds." In perusing the Oologist I cannot help but notice Mr. W. N. Clute's ar- ticle on the "Return of the Birds" (see page 80). My note book reads:— Jan. 25, '97, temperature 30 degrees F. A few Amer- ican Crows and English Sparrows, only birds seen. They are always around. Up to Jan. 21, 1897, Canada Geese were abundant but as the temperature went down they decreased in numbers. Let us turn to 1898. December was a cold month with no snow to amount to anything, but the absence of birds was very marked. Januai'y came in with two feet of snow: the temperature was high ex- cept the 30th and 31st, but flocks of from 20 to 100 Slate-colored Juncos are common. Bohemian Waxwings, Tree Sparrows and American Goldfinches are comparatively common. 'I have also observed a flock of about 40 Cedar Waxwings which "'the snow" ought to drive south. Last winter, however, Snowy Owls were more common than this. I have seen but two this winter and had two reported me where last winter they were not at all rare. Now if snow drives birds south and not the cold why don't the birds go to Dunn Co. (this state) where I under- stand they have no snow? It is a warm day today, but the snow is here nevertheless. In our neighbor's yard there is a flock of 25 Tree Spar- I'ows feeding on the seeds of an ^ase tree. As I was walking along the street I saw a flock of 6 Redpolls, "but snow drives the birds south." Canada Geese are very abundant on the prairie (Rock) this winter but there is two feet of snow. H. H. T. Jackson, Milton, Wis. Traill's Flycatcher. In this locality Traill's Flycatcher is the most common of its family. It is generally found around hedges but is quite often met with in the hazel brush. It may be seen sitting on some dead branch, every now and. then darting after some insect and again resuming its post, while between times it utters its simple song and flirts its tail as if impatient for another insect to turn up. The nest is placed in some upright fork or sodded on a horizontal branch of the hedge or hazel, and is never more than 9 or 10 feet from the ground. It pre- fers hedges not more than 15 feet high but in one or two cases I have found them in hedges 25 or so feet high and once in a box elder 25 feet up, and once 7 feet up in an apple tree. The nest is composed of the inner bark of dead hedge and is lined with fine grass and horse hair. Sometimes a few feathers are stuck in quill end down, with the tips arched inward over the cavity. The nest is very compactly woven. A typical nest measures three inches in depth and Sf inches in diam- eter outside and ]fx2 inside. The eggs are three or four in number, of a cream color, spotted with reddish brown spots, chiefly at the larger end. The average size is .70x.53. Frank Willard, Galeaburg, 111. The Oologist. VOL. XV. NO. 4. ALBION, N. Y., APRIL, 1898. Whole No. 143 Redhead and Ruddy. There are more facts in earth than the books have told; and it is the delight of the Ornithologist to search out these. Not every bird-lover may wade waist deep in mai'sh ooze asearch for delight- ful surprises, among the ranks of rush, and the mazes of last year's tangled grass. And so the many miss the pleas- ures of a close acquaintance with these two— the Redhead and the Ruddy — among the most attractive of our fresh water ducks. Big, marshy, land-girt lakes are the haunts they love. There must be acres of dense rushes for cov- ert and nest hiding; and a plentiful choice of tiny open areas of water where parent and brood may wash and feed. But little Erisviakira has his own idiosyncrasy. Unlike the Redhead, he loves nothing better, either for tran- sient sojourn or for a summer home, than an acre bit of slough, rush-bor- dered and grass-girt, with all the cen- ter clear; to make smooth sailing on the summer winds. For, at least so Thom- as Miller says, — and he surely knows, — "During a gale of wind the Ruddy erects his tail at right angles with his body to catch the wind and push him along." Thoroughly local are both these birds except in migration, or by incident, they are rarely abroad. One may live within a mile of their haunts and yet be none the wiser. For all that, the Ruddy is found, quite plentifully for him, wherever the above conditions are satisfying, and, as for the Redhead, he swarms in such a locus. Witness words of Mr. Miller, in a I'e- port concerning the birds of the Heron Lake region: "Redhead: Once our most plentiful duck, here, has been killed in thousands on this lake, for the last fifteen years. Fancy twenty guns hunting on one lake every day, for two and a half months at a stretch, each gun killing from thirty to ninety Redheads a day. Is it any wonder that they are not as plenty as they used to be?" In apathetic rafts of ten to twenty, at most, the Ruddy is found, in migration, on favorable lakes, flying only when they must, and then only for a stone's throw, in flat, muddled masses. Mean- while the Redhead swarms everywhere among the other ducks; for, unlike the Ruddy, he is no eremite. Now, visit the Redhead and Ruddy haunts, in early May. Of the Ruddy, we find simply one or two, in mute sol- itude, here and there, upon the open water. But as for the Redhead, while she is seldom to be seen, the careless mate rises from every open space, and from the secluded margins of the bays, in groups of Ave or even more, and cir- cles about the naturalist, in all the hal- ycon fearlessness of the close season ; sometimes venturing so near that we may rote the exquisite vermiculation of his back; catch a glint of the brown- ness of Lis eyes, and listen to the hoarse- ness of his quack, which sounds like the voice of a suppositious Mallard, suffering from bronchitis. Of coui'se it is the nest that we look for next. But we do not find it, search as we may. We just stumble upon it. We have floundered among the mazes of the rushes for an hour, with the wat- er often waist deep. The old wading suit grows heavier and we grow more and more tired. Suddenly from a dense clump, the eye catches the glint of 26 THE OOLOUIST. creamy eggs, where the sunlight peers through upon them. That glance is enough to repay the fatigues of a week; for whoever saw another such a nestv It is smuggled into a rather isolated clump of rushes, in three feet of water. The nest-mater- ial, pieces of rush, exclusively, is built up to a height of twelve inches above the water line. The rushes overhead are canopied, together, scantily, some being broken over at such a height as to make one marvel at the builder's agility. And there are thirteen eggs lying in three layers in the narrow nest. There is no attempt at down-lining. Another day, wo souse our way through acres and acres of rushy wil- derness, wondering with an impatient wonder, why it is that male Redheads are so plenty and Redheads' nests so scarce. We have found the spot where the fussy solicitude of the Ibises would seem to center; and, with beating heart, are traversing the area over which a male Ibis is hovering. A nest in sight; it is a Coot nest, only, containing the bodies of young birds, whom the minks have victimized. A long cross-shot brings down the Ibis; a systematic search begins, with wading up and down. But, before the dead bird and his nest have greeted our delighted eyes, we have stumbled upon an em- bryonic Ruddy nest, already admirable in its sketchy suggestion of artistic skill. It is a mere saucer of rush sections, about a foot long, barely a foot above the surface of the two-foot depth of wa- ter. Five eggs have been laid; and the dozen or more of standing rushes that have drawn together to conceal the nest well indicate what the earful moth- er would have done by way of protect- ing her home, bad the rushes been more plenty. She must have done some tall reaching, too; for the point of bending in the canopying rushes, is at least two feet above the nest level. No Ruddy is in sight of course, — whoever was lynx-eyed and cat-footed enough to surprise a Ruddy duck, at, or even near her nest' But we must not dwell, delightedly, upon those Heron Lake experiences. Let us hasten to the far north of North Dakota, three miles from the Interna- tional Boundry Line; and wade into what is known as the Geroux Marsh— a long, snaky slough, whose wholo make- up is thoroughly Heron-Lake-like — with an ornis numerically far less; yet in character much the same. One June day outing reveals a sin- gle Redhead nest, quite like the one at which we have just been looking, save that all the environ is beaten down by the tread of competition; for there are about twenty-two eggs, so far as can be told, today, in and about the nest, which has become submerged by com- bined stress of weight and Hood; and the eggs must have been some thirty days deserted. So far as one may judge> after the blanching of water and sun have done their work, about sixteen of the eggs were laid by a Redhead; and the rest by a Canvas-back. In the same marsh, and at a small slough on the Minnesota side, among the rushes, are found two Ruddy Duck nests, containing seven and eight eggs; the nests being made of rushes, and raised about a foot above the water. At this same little rush-bordered slough is found our first nest of the Ruddy, built on the ground. The site must have been of deliberate choice; and it lay about six feet in-shore from the wa- ter line. But near the end of the following June, was found, at this same slough, the most interesting nest of our quaint little friend, Erismatura. Wading the margin, systematically, that no nest escapes the searcher's scrut- iny, one falls to eyeing, with more than usual curiosity, a highly colored ruddy duck, that is sailing before the wind, with his bristle-tail erect. It gives a THE OOLOGIST. 2T keen pleasure to uote in him a trait that would seem, somehow, to have escaped the notice of the bookmakers. We had supposed the Ruddy to be quite dumb; but this lonely fellow is sailing about, with his head bobbing queei'ly, up, and down, first in quarter-seconds of rhythm, and in succession, like the drumming of Bonasa, with more than double that rate of rapidity, and, at the end of each succession of head bob- bings, a single choking note. The whole performance, which would seem to be for the performer's sole edifica- tion, is many times repeated, and ap- pears like this: , , gup, , , giq:). But the clown in chestnut sails around the corner of things, and, almost at the same instant a Ruddy's nest sweeps into view, over the waving grass tops. This grass is the coarse, palm-like angular-stemmed sort, that grows everywhere in- the west, amid the water of the sloughs. Of this grass, the nest is made, green blades and dead being woven together into the snuggest basket that ever a Ruddy wove; all be- ing fastened to the grass tops, that waved above ten inches of water. As finally taken, some days later, the nest was heavily lined and decorated with down; and the nest contained 12 eggs. These w^ere piled three-deep, one having been nest-cracked, and become imbedded at the bottom, eluding all the mother's care, in the upbringing, and OYer-turning that ever goes with incubation. The eggs were all laid, without a doubt, by the same bird. To show, in closing this already too- long-spun yarn, the constant need of verification, ones mind goes back to a nest found last June, in the Geroux Marsh. It was the ne-t of an Aythya, no doubt of that, but the eggs were pale green. After six days, with e.xercise of most scrupulous care, the female is found at her nest, and closely scrutinized, to prove that she is what she ought to be — a Canvas-back; and, sure enough, with her round head, stubby beak, and white head feathers she is — a — Redhead. P. B. Peabody, Hallock, Minn. Prairie Horned Lark in Illinois. "Life is too short to learn all about even one bird" says Olive Thorn Miller. This quotation may with appropriate- ness be attributed to our Illinois mem- ber of the Shore Lark family — the Prai- rie Horned Lark— for the study of this interesting little body affords a never ending source of pleasure to the enthu- siastic and observing lield-student. Each time we seek him in his haunts (and he is always to be found), we may conlidently expect to learn something new of this attractive bird. It is not the knowledge of well-known facts and the desire to view a repetition^ that imparts to us a bouyant, elastic step when we start for an hour in the field. Is it not the delight we exper- ience in making nctv discoveries— those very interesting Uitle details, usually deemed of too small a significance to be given space in our Ornithological Jour- nals. Naturally, to the Oologist, the nest- ing habits of "Practicohi" must prove of of paramount interest, but I find the two ' ologies" so closely connected, so inseparately linked that I am unable to separate them, and what Oologist can long pursue his favorite theme, with- out unconciously digressing— to Orni- thology. The Prairie Horned Lark is a charm- ing singer and contributes to our enjoy- ment, one of the sweetest of all bird songs. Simple and child-like as the song of the Indigo, it combines the sweet mel- low tones of the Meadowlark with the huirying time of the House Wren; not loud and distinct as with Slurnella mag- na, but so soft and low that one must needs be quite near, and all attention. 28 THE OOLOGIST. to catch the more exquisite notes. These finer tones will compare favora- bly (in point of excellence) with the liq- uid notes of our melodious Bobolink. The song proper, like all other bird melodies is difficult of description and must be heard to be fully appreciated. The male sings while perched on a clod or fence post or while on the wing. His flying song however, is a liner produc- tion and of much longer duration. On a fine April morning of last sea- son, I was treated to a mid-air rendition from Praticola that surely would rival the best production of the far-famed English Skylark. I was first attracted by an unusually animated song which seemed directly above me. I soon discovered a Horned Lark, with rapidly vibrating wings, cir- cling round and round, over a freshly plowed field. He seemed wholly car- ried away with power of his song as he mounted higher and higher, until he passed beyond my vision. I could still hear him as the climax w'as reached, when with almost a scream of ecstacy he fi uttered back to earth, "sliding down on the scale of his own music." He dropped to the surface utterly spent by his violent exertions and the inter- esting performance was over. I wend- ed my way homeward with an increas- ed admiration for the accomplishments af this terestial songster. The Frairie Horned Lark is a con- stant resident with us and while seem- ingly not so common in the mid-winter months, I do not believe that any por- tion of them leave us (as some writers contend) during that time. On very cold days, they leave the pasture-lands and meadows and seek shelter in the corn-fields, where they are found with difficulty. This propably accounts for their apparent disappearance. Inhabitant of field and meadow, it adds a pleasing picture to our dreary winter landscape that could not well be spared. On a typical winter Sabbath in Feb- ruary, I am coaxed out of my winter quarters in the hopes of meeting some early arrival from the south. I am pre- pared to welcome an old Crow, if noth- ing more interesting appears. Suddenly I meet a shower of Horned Larks, rolling and bounding through the air in Goldfinch-like curves. They all alight but one male— he leaving his companions, mounts into the air. Higher and higher he goes with each bound, and describing an extensive cir- cle, reaches a great altitude. When a mere speck in the sky, his ambition seems satisfied and closing his wings, he drops like a meteor to the earth. It is a pretty and interesting performance. Even at this early date, I feel sure they are mated, for they appear to di- vide in pairs and the notes of the male have assumed a more lover-like tone than the monotonous "jjreet p/'eet" of a month previous. They are our earliest nest-builders — so early indeed that the female if often compelled to finish her task of incuba- tion amid the ice and snow of a late winter storm. Two or three broods are reared each season. I have evidence of only two, but as the first brood is hatched in March and the second in June, a third brood for the season is very probable. The nests are always placed on the ground, sunken in the earth or placed at the roots of corn. The first nests are usually built in meadows and pastures where a natural depression or cow-track is chosen. They are composed of fine dry grasses and feathers, firmly inter- woven into a strongly made nest, able to withstand the fury of heavy March winds. In marked contrast are the nests fur- nished for the second broods. These are placed at the roots of growing corn in early June and are but small masses of weeds and grasses, so carelessly THE OOLOGIST 29- thrown together that a nest as a whole could not be lifted from the ground. It view of the rapid degeneration in the art of nest building, it would be in- teresting to note the architecture and composition of the third or fourth nests of a season. The eggs of the Prairie Horned Lark are three or four in number— usually four. The sizes vary greatly, in a ser- ies of sets, as will be seen by the follow- ing measurements of three sets of my collecting: 64x85, 65x86, 63x81, 58x84; 62x76, 62x77, 63x76, 63x78; 69x92, 68x91, 70x91. The eggs are wholly unlike those of our other birds, and once seen will nev- er be confounded with the eggs of other species. The color may be described as green- ish-gray. The markings are tiny and so thickly sprinkled over the entire sur- face, as to wholly obscure the ground color. In some sets a wreath is found encircling the larger end, which gradu- ally shades into a darker hue. A noteworthy characteirstic of the species, is the frequency with which an abnormally marked egg occurs, in a series of sets. This characteristic may however, be only local, as I have never seem this feature mentioned, regarding this particular bird. The most inter- esting deviation I have yet noted ap- pears in a set, now in the collection of Mr. C. H. Morrell. An abnormal egg in this set presents so entirely a different shade of coloi'a- tion that it does not appear to belong to the set. Isaac E. Hess, Philo, Illinois. The Summer Home of Vireo Solitarius Cassini and Other Notes. On June 9th of the past year I left camp early in the morning and follow- ed a path along a ditch through the for- est in El Dorado Co., intent upon studying the varied bird life of the Sierras. The sides of the ditch were covered with rank ferns while "moun- tain misery" grew luxuriantly at the side of the path, and I vainly sought to Hush some Calaveras Warbler from her nest in such a promising spot. All of a sudden 1 heard a tremendous ham- mering in the woods and concluded that the workman must be a Pileated Woodpecker. Following the sound 1 soon located Ceophlaus on a large dead pine, perhaps 50 feet up, and again he repeated his resounding tattoo on the dead tree and expressed his approval in a harsh, resonant cry which could be heard a long distance. A female was shot later by Mr. Beck and Mr. Nutting found a nest in a dead burnt pine con- taining four young on June 18. Alti- tude 3,700 feet. I watched the Woodpecker's undulat- ing flight until he disappeared, when I turned to several Warblers, principally D. nigrescens, which were flitting about, among the small cedar and spruce, now and then bursting forth in a weak though sweet, song. A pair of Audu- bon's Warbler's were nervously thread- ing their way up through a large spruce, but finally were given up for other avain attractions which seem to succeed each other so rapidly in the forest. Suddenly there burst upon my ear a beautiful bell-like note but tea feet away and recognizing the musician as a Cassins Vireo I knew that its handsomely- woven little nest was in a certain small black oak sapling stand- ing alone in the clearing, from whence floated the song. A few steps and there, hidden only by the light-colored leaves, swung the nest with its unsus- pecting little owner rocking to and fro in the morning breeze. She flitted off to a near-by bush and poured forth her full, round song with no sign of alarm, and with that perfect confldeuce with which some birds are imbued. The nest was at the end of a drooping branch of the black oak and only seven. w THE OOLOGIST. From Photo by R. H. Beck. Cassin's Vireo on Nest. ieet from the ground. The four eggs were advanced in incubation at this date, June 9th. This was the only nest I saw of this species during the morn- ing's stroll. The nest was composed of light grasses, shredded leaves, soft plant fibres and decorated externally with the white outer silk of a cocoon found on the trees. It was lined with fine brown rootlets and grasses of the same color. I was surprised at the decrease in numbers of Cassin's Vireo in this local- ity since the summer of 1896. At that time in travelling over the wooded hill- sides there was scarcely a time when one could not hear the song of this Vir- eo close at hand in one of the numerous small black oaks, and nests containing young were very numerous. This year I missed the familiar s ng of my little friend and only now md then did I come upon a pair diuiijg my rambles. This change was due no doubt to the fact that in 1896 a collection of skins was made by several collectors in this locality and the Vireos came in for their share of the sacrifice, quite a series being taken. And this year the woods missed their usual joyous song. In 1896 a number of nests were found, all with young and situated, with one exception in the low drooping limbs of the black-oak from three to eight feet from the ground. One nest was sus- pended from the fork of an alder tree about 12 feet from the ground, along a creek. This year on June 8th I faund a nest half-built five feet up in a black oak; on June 9th a nest seven feet up containing eggs advanced in incubation; June 12, one just completed placed ten feet up in a drooping black oak over- hanging a path; on June 15th a nest six feet up just completed and ready for eggs. On the afternoon ot June 15th while walking down the stage road I heard the note of a Cassin's Vireo, and glancing up into a black oak beside the road espied the nest 12 feet up, with the bird on. This I collected with four fresh eggs, the nest being of the same THE OOLOGIST. 31 com position as the one described. The eggs are pme white, quite thickly dot- ted with small uniform dots of reddish- brown about the large end, and meas- ure 76x60, 77x59,77x58 and 75x58 inches. Cassin's Vireo is the largest and handsomest representative of its genus in the west. Its food is largely of in- sects and grubs which are found plenti- ful on the leaves of the trees and amongst the vegetation. The song is usually uttered near the nest and more often by the female while she rocks back and forth in her dainty home. The song is gladsome and full of vivac ity, and though short, rings through the woodland most beautifully. It is sounded often when one is in the vicin- ity of the nest, in a jolly, enquiring way and cannot be satisfactorily ex- pressed in words. The nests of Cas- sin's Vireo, so far as I have examined them, always may be identified by the white cocoons with which they are out- wardly decorated. The accompanying illustration is from a photograph taken by R. H. Beck in June, 1896, showing a Vireo on its nest, which was in a small black oak bush only three feet up. With admirable courage the bird re- mained bravely on her nest while the camera was being focused and the ex- posure made. 1 found one nest in the Sierras in 1896 which contained live young but the usual complement is four. June 14th we had a delightful walk for two miles to a burnt district, a large area which had, several years before, been swept by a forest fire, leaving only the charred trunks of the pines. On the border of this district were growths of small cedar saplings and pine, while an undergrowth of deer brush had sprung up between the burnt trees. This locality was noticeable for the numerous Woodpeckers, to whom it offered no doubt a tempting feeding ground. Here were seen the Pileated, Cabanis's and Red-breasted Wood- peckers. On the way a nest of the Red-breasted Sapsucker was found in a dead bark-stripped pine, 40 feet up, which contained young which the par- ents were feeding. The bushes were full of bird life, the sweet songs of the Thick-billed Spar- rows. Warblers and others coming to us from all sides. A pair of Green-tail- ed Towhees drew attention to their nest li feet up in a small bush, con- taining five young which fluttered away at our approach. Macgiliivray's Warb- lers were numerous, all with bi'oods of young. Western Robins were common and a nest with three fresh eggs was taken from the top of a 12 foot cedar growing on a flat. Olive-sided Fly- catchers were calling frequently from the edge of the timber but generally kept wel!-up in the tall conifers, where their nests were safe from discovery. I was somewhat surprised, while walk- ing through a growth of small cedars to see a dainty little nest of the California Bush-Tit hanging from a cedar limb 8 feet up. It seemed rather odd to see little Psallriparus so far up in the mountains. The nest held seven incu- bated eggs. A short distance further I noticed the nest of some Warbler which has since satisfactorily proven to be Audubon's. It was A.k feet up in a small cedar on a horizontal limb, next the trunk and held one egg which was partly hidden in the feathery lining and proved to be addled, the nest apparently not having been used. Evidently the mother bird had been shot after the first egg was deposited. The nest is composed of small roots, weed fibres, fine grass and a light brownish* fibre resembling horse hair. Lined with feathers, among which are several chestnut ones of the Plumed Quail. I left this nest several days and then took it with its one egg. Late on June 15th while waiting for the stage to take us out of the moun- tains I rambled down the road and on 32 THE OOLOGIST. to a hillside, which was grown up with manzanita and various trees. A small nest was noticed, nicely concealed in the center of a manzanita bush, seven feet from the ground, the manzanita leaves affording it protection, because of their light gray color. Soon two Black-throated Gray Warblers appeared in a tree overhead, chirping vigorously at my intrusion and claiming the nest. The eggs, four in number were advanc- ed in incubation and were preserved without blowing. The nest was placed in a crotch of the bush and composed almost entirely of soft, light grayish plant stems, with a few small strips of bark intermixed. It is lined very spar- ingly with horse-hair and a few feathers. Chester Barlow. The Dickcissel or Black-throated Bunting-. Although this bird seems to be in- creasing greatly in numbers every year, it was not until 1S95 that I began to pay particular attention to him. A short distance up the avenue I find him sitting on a telephone wire seren- ading the fields round about him with chink, chink, chee-cheechee, repeated over and over again at short intervals at all hours of the day. The nest is not far from where he sits singing this ditty; but he shows no alarm about your finding it. In the past three years I have found four sets of this species as follows: A set of four fresh eggs on June 11, 1895; a set of four slightly incubated eggs on June 29, 1895; a set of five fresh eggs on June 18, 1896 and a set of two slightly incubated eggs on July 8, 1897. The set taken July '8 was the only one taken that year, and seems to have been rather late. Of this set I have the following description: Number of eggs, 2; incubation begun, nest, in bunch of clover 4 inches from the ground; was composed of grass and weed stems, and lined with finer grasses and horse hair; depth inside, 2i inches; inside diameter, 2f inches; outside diameter, 4i inches; height, 5* inches; eggs resemble those of the Blue- bird Doth in color and size and measure 1 3-16 x 5-8 and 7-8 x 11-16 . inches. Spiza americana arrives in the early part of May and leaves in the latter part of August or early in September, spending the winter beyond the limits of the United States. The forepart of the head is greenish olive, hind head, neck and cheeks dark ash gray; streak over eye and mandible, lower neck and middle of the breast yellow; chin white, throat black, sides gray, abdomen white, and lesser wing coverts bright chestnut; length, 6i inches The female resembles the male ex- cepting the black on the throat. Its food consists of caterpillars, in- sects, and immense numbers of canker- worms early in the summer; it also eats seeds of of various grasses. Glen M. Hathorn, Cedar Rapids, la. Wrapping" Eggs for Packing. An old subscriber makes the follow- ing request which we trust will have a tendency to abate the "thread nuis- ance:' "I wish you would point out to some oologists the mistake they make in wrapping yards of thread around the cotton in which small eggs are wrap- ped. It does not insure the safety of the eggs at all, if anything, "it adds to the chance of breakages, and it takes four times as long to unpack eggs wrapped around with two feet of thread and life is too short to waste in unpack- ing a lot of small eggs wrapped up in this way and one requires the patience of Job to do it." THE OOLOGIST. 33 The Oologist. A Montlily PubLcatlcn Devoted to OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. 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In the early spring of 1879 while at- tending Sunday-school, in a New Eng- land city, I placed on the library card the numbers of some books that I de- sired to read. With the usual carefulness of the average librarian, a book was given me that of course differed in number from anything appearing on the card. Upon arriving home, and for the first time noticing the error, I was highly indignant at being given that which was considered by me as a ''kid's book," having reached at that period of ray existence the somewhat mature age of fourteen years. The title of the despised volume was "Boys at Chequasset" by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, and, as I had nothing else to particularly interest me just then, condescended to glance over the first few pages. In a very few minutes I was completely fascinated, little dream- ing that this book, reaching me appar- antly by chance was to influence my future life to an extent never at- tained by any other book. From that moment an oologist was born. I forgot everything in a mad in- satiable desire for bird's eggs. I won- dered how it was possible that I had struggled over the by gone years with- out possessing a collection, and I longed with an intense yearning for the days to pass that kept me from the one thing that seemed absolutely necessary for ray very existence. At length the time came that I judged would be propitious for my enterprise, and armed with hope and tin oint- ment box .filled with cotton-batten, I sallied forth, firmly resolved to con- quer, or to leave my bones to bleach at the top of some gigantic pine. Fortune invariably smiles at the beginning of every venture, and my first climb was rewarded with an egg that in beauty exceeded anything my youthful eyes had ever gazed upon. At that moment I would have indig- nantly rejected an offer to exchange it for the Koh-inoor, had anyone been sufficiently rash to suggest such a tran- saction. I packed the egg very carefully in my box, and to this day I am unable to state with any degree of certainity. 31 THE OOLOGIST. whether I slid, fell or Hew from the tree. However I made a bee-line fur home, and hid my treasure in the barn, got out a ponderous work on natural his- tory and looked up all the birds to see if I could ascertain the exact value of my newly acquired treasure. My ef- forts in this direction not being crown- ed with success, I got my hat and am- bled sideways out of the house in quest of an acquaintance, who had, in my es- timation attained universal knowledge. He listened patiently and reverently to my narrative and at its close inform- ed me that I had been singularly bless- ed by the Fates, and that my oological specimen was that of the "migratory thrush." When I eventually discover- ed that thg common, ordinary, every day robin was technically designated migratory thrush, I felt a lump in my throat as big as a balloon. Retribution has overtaken my boy- hood friend, he is now a college prof- essor. If there was a bird's nest within a radius of ten miles from the house in which I lived, that I didn't find that year, all I can say is that it must been ten feet under ground. Years passed as they somehow have a habit of doing and with them the school days that the average boy spends generally in wishing them gone, and the remainder of his existence in wish- ing them back again. Life began gradually to assume a more serious aspect, and, like the maj- ority of my friends and companions I entered the actual arena of the world. Then, like thousands of other boys, having an enormous conception of what constituted a man, took for my exam- ple the one of all others I should have avoided, and firmly resolved to attain the enviable position that to my poor deluded mind, he occupied. 1 attained it! In a few short years, filled with as- sorted bitter and sweet, the former in big chunks and the latter in infinite- simal grains. I found myself in the maelstrom of a large city, 'gone home, gone friends, gone cash, everything in fact gone, but the cheerful certainty of eventual annihilation and the craving of a tiger in my vitals for one more drink So the months faded slowly into eter- nity, and one Saturday afternoon, I mechanically bent my way to the Nat- ural History Room of the great city, stupidly fumbled up the steps and aim- lessly wandered into the edifice. At last drifting into that portion of the build- ing devoted to Oological specimens. As I gazed wearily at the collection in an instant the thonght Hashed thi'ough my poor muddled brain of the previous vis- its and under what different circum- stances I thought of what I was when as a freehearted boy I roamed through the same structure, filled with natures treasures, more 'beautiful by far than anything wrought by the hand of man, and as I compared the present with the happy past, the tears trickled down my cheeks, and I resolved to kill the demon I had myself reared and regain if possible some of my bygone happi- ness. But it is far easier to resolve than to accomplish, and the days, weeks and even months that followed, recorded but a succession of unequal struggles and inglorious defeats. At length one evening, while under the influence of liquor, as usual, I was attracted by a light in the vestry of a church that I sometimes attended, so over I went and after going in, discov- ered that it was a sociable held under the auspices of the W. C. T. U., and that the main object of the affair was the inducing of those present to sign the pledge. Something seemed to whisper to me that this was my last chance, and 1 guess it actually was. Still I hesitated, finally I said to myself, picking out a THE OOLOGIST 35 young lady the farthest from me, now I'll leave it to chance. If she asks me I will sign, otherwise not. No sooner had I made this agreement with myself, than the lady wheeled round, walked straight to me, held out the pledge extended a pencil and said "sign it." I did so and a minute afterwards would have given anything to have blotted out the act. Notwithstanding all the misery, agony, and disgrace caused by the demon rum. I did not understand its power then, I do not comprehend it even now, but so it was. Suffice to say that although quite a number of years have passed since that eventful evening, I have never tasted a drop of liquor in any form, and I now have a pleasant home of my own, tilled with books, pictures and curiosities galore. Although I have some friends and a fair position I shall never be what I might have been had not King Alcohol and I joined forces. "Each loss has its compensaliou, There is healing for every pain; But the bird with the broken pinion Never soars so high again." Boys, profit by the lesson I have so bitterly committed to memory and re- member that should you seek forbidden paths you may not be "saved by a col- lection of eggs." God grant you may never need it! Why. The Brunnich's Murre as a Western New Yorker. Brannich's Murre [Uria lomvia) is a frequenter of the coasts and islands of the North Atlantic and eastern Arctic Oceans, moving southward in winter along the Atlantic coast of America as far as New Jersey, occasionally wan- dering inland to the more easterly of the Great Lakes. It seems to be only during the last few years that this wanderer from the North Atlantic has been observed in Western New York, but within the past few years, several individuals have been taken on the larger water-ways of this section. The writer has not observed in any of the ornithological publications of the day any mention of these occurrences, and it appeared to me that a mere men. tion of the visitations of this bird to this section might be in order, so that they might become matters of record. Mr. J. L. Davison of Lockport re- ports that two specimens were taken in Niagara River, Nov. 9, 1894, and that on Dec. 19, 1896, five specimens were taken in Niagara River. I am also rel- iably informed that at least one speci- men, and I am not certain but two, were taken during the past fall or win- ter on Lake Erie in the vicinity of Buf- falo. I recently saw in the collection of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, two mounted specimens of Uria lomvia, which had apparently been but lately placed there and it may be that these are the specimens referred to in the above information. An individual of this species was also taken during 1897 (in the fall, I believe) on Lake Ontario in the western part of Monroe county, and came into the hands of Mr. George F. Guelf of Brock- port, in whose possession I believe the specimen is now. Our little county of Orleans has its record also. During the first half of March, 1897, a specimen in winter plumage was taken on the ice of Sandy Creek near Murray, N. Y. (seven miles inland from Lake Ontario) and brought to Mr. F. A. Macomber of Murray for mounting. The bird was in a famished, exhausted condition, permitting itself to be taken alive by hand. Its body was considerably emaciated, and upon examination its stomach was found to be entirely empty. This bird is now in 86 I'HE OOLOGIST the possession of Mr. Macomber of Murray, and on the 22nd of December last, the writer paid him a visit for the purpose of seeing the bird as well as other "rare takes" which he has, and I felt well repaid for my walk of four miles from the Holley depot through a thickening snow storm to his home. It would prove interesting and in- structive to learn of other records of the occurrence of Uria lomvta in West- ern New York, if other records there are, in order that we may more nearly know of just how frequent occurrence it may be here. It would seem that it is cnly during the past few years that this Guillemot has extended its wanderings into this section. It is called Thick-billed Guillemot and Arr, and Mr. L. S. Foster of New York, upon whom I recently had the pleasure of calling, informs me that on Long Island, the bird is commonly called "Crow Guillemot," an epithet which can be fully appreciated when we observe the head of Brunnich's Murre, for the form and shape of its head is very much like that of the com- mon Crow. The resemblance is marked. Neil F. Posson, Feb. 9, 1898. Medina, N. Y. Additional Notes on Road-Runner. On pages 78-9 of the Oologist, Vol. XIV, No. 8, issued in August of the past year, were published a few desul- tory remarks relative to the niditication of the Road-runner and it was with gen- uine surprise that we noted the fact that our name was subscribed thereto. Retrospection, however, has convinced us that we are indeed the culprit. If our memory is good, that paper was written six or seven years ago, and why Editor Lattin finally liberated it from its cell in the file of rejected mat- ter, we are at quite a loss to know. It was by reason, no doubt, of a dearth of superior material, yet its publication has elated us to such a degree that we now make a few additional remarks, which, provided they are accorded a like deference, will be brought to light at some 'Period during the first quarter of the ensuing century. Since the writing of that sketch the hieroglyphics in those sections of our note books allotted to the fleet-footed O. 'calijornicanus have been augment- ed considerably. And furthermore in consideration of the fact that the time has come when most any old thing may, with impunity, make uglzfaces at Nancy Hanks we doubt not it wouid be wise .to substitute the name of Star Pointer or Joe Patchen in lieu of Nancy's in the sixth line of our former endeavor. So far as our information goes, the Road-runner is very generally diffused over all sections of our state with prob- ably the exception of the most northern counties, but we have never known it to exist in such amazing exuberance as it does in the most southern districts. In south Texas chaparal regions, few birds are more frequently found than the Paisano, by which appellation it is locally known, and which in English signifies, a country man. However, they are not gregarious and we have seldom if ever seen more than half a dozen in company. The diet of the Road-runner appears to be a vexata qucestio, some imputing to him the crime of cannibalism— claim- ing that small chicks and the young hopefuls of small birds are to him a favorite entre. A previous writer in the Oologist asseverates that he has personally witnessed the immolation of immature Mockingbirds upon the altar of the Road-runner's voracity and furth- er states, but does not give his author- ity for so doing, that he is also a de- spoiler of the chicken-house. Vide, Vol. XI, No. 8, p. 265. We will accept for true his first statement because he has THE UOLOGIST. 37 had scular evidence and so declares. But are not his conclusions upon the second head based upon hearsaj? Now we in no way attempt to refute his statement touching their chicken-eating pi'opensities, and it may be that we are not so i-onversant with the food habits of these birds as is the gentleman, but we have never met with a single cir- cumstance to confirm his theory. When removed from the nest at an early age, they may be partially do- mesticated and the birds that we have undertaken to "civili/e" have never evinced any cravings for a tender pro- spective spring chicken. So we must reiterate our former statement that "the principal diet of the Roadrunner consists of snails with an occasional small reptile," and will state in addit- ion that grasshoppers are devoured by them in large numbers. Even a super- ficial knowledge of the nature of their customary menu would persuade one that they are of great economical value to agricultui'e and worthy of the sedu- lous protection of man. In March of last year another and a greater vagary concerning G. califor- nianiis was promulgated by a writer in the Osprey Vol. I, No. 7, (A Peculiar Hybrid) a fallacy which was exploded in the following issue of that journal when one of its editors virtually de- manded evidence positive that would substantiate the remarkable assertion. That claim was, in brief, that cases of inter-breeding between Chaparral Cocks and common hens was of fre- quent occurrence, a union resulting in a hybrid having — to use the writer's words— "the general appearance of the hen, although possessing many of the peculiarities of form and disposition of its wild progenitor." Tis quite need- less to add that the desired proof was never submitted. The Roadrunner is but a mediocre ai'chitect at best but it seems to us that those resident in this section are moi*e careless and inartistic in nest-building than those of the west. Simply an in- terlaced platform of small twigs with slight or no depression and might eas- ily be mistaken for that of a small Heron. Placed but a few feet from the ground in thorny chaparral — again dis- similar to the western birds (West Texan we mean) who situate their nests in trees at various altitudes ranging be- tween 5 and 20 feet. We have taken many sets of these eggs but we have yet to discover a nest containing eggs exceeding seven in number. We have observed several different notes and calls of these birds but as we have never yet seen in print, a really intelligible spalling of bird-notes we shall not attempt to so describe them. One, however, is strangely similar to the cackle of the domestic hen, but omitting the long-drawn finis. James J. Carroll, Refugio, Texas. Bird Haunts, The owners of the land thought that the new clearing was a great improve- ment, but to me the freshly sawed logs and endless heaps of burning brush were melancholy sights, for although the Vincennes University is called my alma mater my real education was ac- quired in those Fort Knox woods. I have spent many a day there in shady hollow or airy tree top studying the varying aspects of nature. Leaving town in the early morning I would soon get beyond the zone of English Sparrows and reach the haunts of native birds. The first of these were the Blackbirds, gathering in swarms in the scattered trees in the open pasture and chattering noisily above the brows- ing cattle. Farther on where the meadows were swampy and almost impassible the Crows called their noisy councils in an isolated clump of gnarled water oaks 38 THE OOLOGIST. and planned forays to neighboring fields to gather their mixed stores of cutworms and seed corn. Following the railroact the lowlands were soon passed and densely wooded hills rose on one side while on the other a broad sweep of the Wabash brought the river close to the track. At this point I would leave the road and climb- ing the sloping hill, over a litter of mis- shapen, glaz9d bricks, the remains of old Fort Knox, where, it is said, Zach- ary Taylor once commanded, would tlnd myself in an open field, the clear- ing of which dates back to the time of the military possession. From this point Turkey Vultures could always be seen, soaring in mag- nificent curves and rarely deigning to flap a wing, but using their broad pin- ions mainly as sails to catch the fitful currents of the upper air in a manner which I could admire but not under- stand. These birds could be seen here all the year around, except now and then a few very cold days in mid win- tar. I had always thought that they avoided the excessive cold by making temporary visits to the South, but a native gave me an entirely different explanation of their disappearance say- ing, "When the cold snaps comes they jist scrooch down in holler trees an' waits till the clouds roll by!" Another constant resident of this place was the Chewink, the little "Ground Robin" that frequented the blackberry bushes around the field, running about on the ground and when molested dodging among brush heaps, hiding in thickets and taking ilight with extreme reluctance. The Black-capped Chickadee, the bravest of the brave, al.so lived here, nesting in such cavities in the stems and branches as could be found near the ground. Once when climbing the fence of this field I was startled by a Black-eap da!-hing herself against my hand. She was defending her nes which was in a knot hole in one of the rails. After that when passing that spot I always paid her a visit and when the half dozen little ones were fledged and had gone out in the world to begin their relentless warfare upon tent cat- erpillars I examined the nest. The fence rail was a large one and a rough knot made it extremely thick at one point. The knothole had been peeked out and made considerably larger at the bottom in a manner which seemed to hint that the owner had received the assistance of a Downy Woodpecker in preparing her residence, or at least that she had taken lessons of one. The nest cavity was neatly lined with quail feathers, rabbit hair and fine moss mat- ted together like felt. Sometime in June I was surprised to find that the nest had been renewed and that the lit- tle cavity was again the home of a fam- ily of young Chickadees. Once when leaving the railroad I found a fine Woodcock lying dead in the ditch. It had tlown against the tel- egraph wires and broken its neck. The Woodcock's beautiful eyes are too large for bright sunshine and it often comes to grief when flying in the daytime, but it is safe enough at night, unless dazzled by electric lights, and its migrations are conducted under cover of darkness. In the low ground between the hills I would often find the muddy banks of the little creeks and pools pierced with countless holes, as if some idle boy had been amusing himself by thrusting a switch into the ground. Sometimes I would see how these mysterious holes really were made. A Woodcock would saunter along with dainty, mincing gait, avoiding the water and stepping gingerly ou the mud and every few steps probing deep into tne ooze with his long beak, occasionally getting the reward of toil in the form of a fine worm. Even when he pierced deepest in the mud his fine eyes were safe and watchful, being placed so high up in THE OOLOGIST. 89 his head. These birds did uot. how- ever, confine themselves exclusively to the lowlands, for I have seen them wandering over the hills, turning over leaves and sticks in search of game. Sometimes 1 would lind a nest on the ground, a nest constructed of a few dead leaves and a little dried grass thrown together in a slatternly hap- hazard way that suggested the Whip- poor-will, but the four, smooth, clay colored eggs with their crowded spots of dark brown betrayed the Woodcock. On emerging from the shell the young Woodcocks were covered with a yel- lowish down, striped with brown or black and were the comicalist little things imaginable. Helpless as they were they bad no thought of remaining idly in the nest but began to toddle about, seemingly overloaded with their excessively large bills, as soon as they were hatched. Woodcocks migrate in heedless, go as you please style and I have seen some stragglers so late in the fall and others so early in the spring that I could al- most believe that a few stayed with us through the winter, though this is im- probable. Deep in the woods the little ■,,.,« has a decided bearing upon the co.uration. If por- ous the color will be absorbed 'giving the tint a softened appearance; if fine grained the pigment will be deposited upon the surface, imparting a bright- ness to the color which will augment the attractiveness of the specimen. Oologists, no doubt, have noticed that some eggs with tine te.xture, glossy ex- terior and red markings may be dam- aged when fresh by handling with wet fingers. Under these conditions the colors are liable to soften and come oft' when touched, leaving the marking considerably lighter in tint than origin- ally. For example, some of the beauti- ful eggs of certain species of Flycatch- ers are liable to this injury. These subjects and kindred studies which concern the particulars of the science of oology are worthy of the young student's careful consideration, and I should like to expatiate more ful- ly upon them at some future time. Octocoris in Western New York. FOR THE OOLOGIST BY B. S. BOVVDISH. It is now some eight years since Oc- tocoris took a prominent position in my ornithological interest. Whether or not the bird had always been abundant in Ontario Co. I will not say, but certain it is that the bird did not attract great attention on my part until about '89 or '90. It is a comparatively few years ago that Octocoris, or Eremophila as it was sometimes called, had not branched out into the numerous sub-species which were so suddenly developed, when com- paratively little had been definitely set- tled regarding its exact distribution and breeding range, students generally of that day regarding the bird of our locality as simply Octocoris alpestris, or Eremophila alpestris . For the past few years it has been my eft'ort to ascertain just what per- centage of the birds entering our limits (i. e: those of Western New York) were the true alpestris and what were praticola. So far all my efforts to include the alpestris among our birds have failed, save on the authority of E. H. Short who includes it in the "Birds of West- THE OOLOGIST 43 ■ern New York" as a winter resident, and whose term of visitation alternates with that of praticola. In 1884 when Langille presented his "Our Birds in Their Haunts" to -the public the division line between alpef;- iris and praticola had not grown up and the birds ranging from Western New York to Labrador are by him in- cluded under the one head of Eremo- phila alpeslris. He says, "Until very recently the breeding habit of this spe- cies has been assigned wholly to the far north, but it is now well undei'stood that it breeds abundantly in the lake ■counties ef Western New York and more or less to the eastward as far as Troy." Since the settling of the present code of nomenclature most writers have, I believe, considered our bird as prati- ■cola entirely. 1 have shot, measured, compared and studied specimens at various seasons in a vain endeavor to separate them into two varieties. The result has been confusion, worse con- founded. At last I am compelled to admit that I have secured no specimens which I could ascribe to other than al- peslris [? Ed ] and the result of ett'orts I submit for what they may be worth. Langille gives the measurements as 7-7.30 inches length. The length of a series which I took during the winter ■of '96-'97 were as follows; Jan. 9, male, length 6.56; Feb. 1, fe- male, length 6 65; Feb. 1, male, length G 68; Feb. 2, male, length 6.58; Feb. 2, male, length 6.58; Feb. 2, male, length 5.81; Feb. 4; male, length 6.80; Feb. 13, male, length 6.40; Feb. 16, male, length 6 75 (dark breeding plumage); Fee. 16, femiile, length G.40; Feb. 18, male, length 6.74; Feb. 18. V, length 6 60. As the above list were shot at i-an- •dom they probably represent very well the average length of specimens of this particular locality (these specimens were all secured in the town of York, Livingston Co.) ■It would also seem that at this season the males are decid- edly in the majority, as will appear from an inspection of the foregoing scale, and it appears v^ry probable that as the birds begin and become abund- ant preceding the breeding season that the males airive somewhat in advance of the females as is the case with many other species of birds. Langille gives the following descrip- tion of the Horned Lark, "7-7.50 inches long (as will be seen an average of my specimens is 6 56 inches), somewhat larger than our ordinary sized, its shape being about as peculiar as its voice. The bill is rather long for a song bird, quite pointed and a little curved; on its head are two tufts of erectile black feathers from which it receives part of its common name. As in -the case of other birds, but unlike the rest of song-birds, the scales of the leg extend around behind; and its is very long and straight. This Lark is always in a squatting position with drooping tail when at rest. With a long black patch on either .cheek; a somewhat triangular black spot on the upper part of the breast, reddish light brown above and dull white beneath, with yellow throat, long pointed wings tipped with black and a tail of the same color, a peculiar undulating flight often accompanied with a soft tseep or Iseej)- ses, whether sitting, walking or flying, this bird readily appeals to the eye of the observer." To this description I will add that the intensity of tints varies greatly in different individuals and at different seasons, the black ranging from a grey- ish, faded tint to jetty; the yellow from very faint to well defined; und the white from dirty sickly white to a much nearer approach to clear white; this largely irrespective of sex, but con- forming largely to seasons as the deep- ening of shades increases in general with the approaching breeding season and declines with its departure. Ten 44 THE OOLOGIST. stomachs which I examined contained tine sand or gravel. Without doubt insects are included in the bird's bill of fare when examined. Before the separation of alpestris and praticola the bird was given place as a resident. Since praticola became a separate individual, many have de- nied him this status claiming absence on his part during December and some during late November and early Janu- ary. That he is equally entitled to a place as resident with the American Goldfinch and Cedar Waxwing will be conceded 'from a glance at the follow- ing records for doubtful months during "97. Jan. 9th, one; 18th, four; Nov. 17, (raw west wind with flurries of snow) seven; 18th, ilock of about twenty (snowed and by noon of 20th was three inches deep, then thawed); 20th, two- 23d, [heard one; 2oth, two; D^c. 9th, three (weather bright, wind south); 10th six (weather mild); Uth, one (mild); 15th, six (mild); 10th, heard several (mild); 21st, (during the interval be- tween this and previous record there had been several snow storms and some quite severe weather) flock of four, and later amidst a heavy snow storm a flock of about ten passed over. 27th, four; 28th, flock of eight and one of fifteen flying southwest; 3lst, two. During the dates of the above records all kinds of weather prevailed and the result is much better than I could get with the Goldfinch which at best dur- ing the winter is very irregular throughout Western New York or with the Cedar Waxwing which is rarely seen at that time. nFrom the results I would deduce that the larger portion of praticobt pass south in winter, that the remainder while somewhat irregular are never far from us and are liable to appear at; any time without much regard to weather conditions. As an example of variition in plum- age of difi'erent individuals taken on the 16th of Feb. are thus described in my note book: "One, a male lacking cinnamon tinge on neck and shoulders being dusky instead and having the horns whitish; the other a male, being a dark bird with but very little tinge of the cinnamon, the breast-color a jetty black and th3 horns with conspicuous black upper edge, in fact, general plum- age thoroughly breeding type." In the matter of breeding, however, the weather very evidently does influ- ence the Prairie Horned Lark to a marked degree. Laugille gives dates of finding first nest April 2S, 1875, nest containing four young; April 7, 1878, female feeding young, which were able to fly (He concludes nest must have been begun early in March); April 9, 1880, four eggs about half incubated. He does not state what the weather was previous to finding of nests for two or three weeks and this I believe to ba an important, factor. In Oatario I took my first set of this species in '89, a set of three in which incubation had proceeded about one-third. This nest was found the first week in May and was unquestionably a first nest. Probably in Western New York nest building does not begin as a rule much if any before the 1st of April, often not until later, but exceptions to this rule produced by unusual weather are liable to occur as was evidenced by the spring of '94 when I took a nest of four near- ly fresh eggs on the lOth of March, an- other of three fresh the 20th, a set of three, incubation advanced, the 27th, and another of thrc^ advanced in iocu- bation on the 3d of April. The Avhjle of the month of March up to ab )Ut the 25th was most excejlioual, the grouad being free from sno.v and the weather more balmy tha:i we usually see it in April. During the last week of March a light sn-ivv fell but it was not sufll- cient to cause the birds to leave their nests, but ahout April lOth there was a riiE OOLO(JlST. 45 fall of a foot or more of suow aud all nests were immediately deserted, the birds congregating in small Hocks by the roadside feeding aud were often seen in small flocks subseqaeatly. Nor did I, during the remainder of the season note any attempt to renew ef- forts at nidifieation. The nests are usually sunken in the ground, their rim flush with the sur- face and nest and eggs ofrc-r so little contrast that they are by no means readily discovered. Mbre'over the bird in my experience, is bat seldom Hushed from the nest, usually skulking, while the intruder is yet somn distance from it. The nests are seldom as substantial- ly built as those of the Song Sparrow or Goldfinch. S*-! 2-4, Phelps, Ontario Co', N. Y , March 19, 1894, eggs four, incubation just begun, nest depth outside 2i inches inside Ij inches, diameter outside 3i inches, inside 2^ incl^ies; dry grass aud rootlets, outer lining plantain leaves, inner lining wheat straw, .situated flush with brim in hole apparently excavated by birds, in open clover meadow a short distance from barn on slope fac- ing east. On going to this field in search of nests as 1 climbed the fence two birds flew up. I marked both spots, search- ed the first without success and the second with above results. Set 3 3, Phelps, N. Y., March 27, 1894, eggs three, incubation advanced, nest depth outside 2 inches, inside 1.1 inches, diameter outside 3^ inches, inside 2i inches; composed of dry grass lined with wheat-chaff. About two inches of snow when found and bird flushed quite near me from depression in ground ia wheat stubble field. Set 4 3, Phelps, N. Y., April 3, 189i. eggs three, incubation advanced, nest depth outside 3J inches, inside 2i inch- es; composed of grasses, line roots and lined wiih same and wheat chaff. Ex- cavation by birds in meadow. Set 5-4, Phelps, M. Y., May 19, 1897, eggs four, incubation advanced, nest depth ox.2 inches, diameter 4x3. iuohes;. composed of fine grasses, lined with same, depression of grouad in clover pasture. A few sets of five eggs have been reported. I have never been so fortunate as to observe such. The gen- eral numb.isr for first sets is probably four but sets of three are frequent. The above is the result of eight years of as careful observation as other duties would allow. In view of the fact that I have failed practically in the first ob- ject of this study, may we not consider that there is room for investigation as to the respective status of Oetocoris al- pestris and Oetocoris alpestris praticola in Western New Yorkv Nests of the Wood Pewee. Editor Oologist: 1 noticed in last OiJLOGiST Mr. \V. S. Catlin, speaking of Wood Pewee's nests in his instructive article, "Exceptions,'^ sajs, "Out of a personal examination of over a hundred nests only one con. tained any lichens." Every nest that I have examined in this state, was as thickly adorned with lichen on the ex- terior as those of the far-famed Blue- gray Gnat-catcher. And furthermore under the head of "Exceptions," I might add that they were all neat and compact, and in beauty, nearly equal to the Gnatcatch- ers, instead of being "far inferior in de- sign to the poorest ne&ts of the Blue- gray Gnatcatcher, and Ruby-throated Hummingbird," * * ^ * nor do they "suggest a one story, flimsy pov- erty stricken home," as Mr. Davie says. Jacob Bastian, Jk., Statesville, N. C. I SOLD my Kagle through the adv. Adver- tising in the Oologist rays. F. W. COLLINS, Garden City, Kans. 46 THE OOLOGIST. The Oologist. A Monthly Publication Devoted to OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. Correspondence and Items of Interest to the student ot Bli-ds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited from all. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION: Single subscription soc per annum Sample copies 5c each The above rates include payment ot postage. Each subscriber Is given a card good for a Want, Exchange or For Sale Notice. 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Along the northern shore of Lake Erie, the Bald Eagle is perhaps one of the best known "Birds of Prey," both on account of his great size, and the liking he has for fish, which he obtains either direct from tne pond-nets or picks up along the shore where they have drifted. Between the Eagle and the Great Blue Heron, the fishermen lose quite a number of fish. It was my good fortune to hear of a nest of this bird, early in March. Ac- cordingly on Good Friday we started out. for the situation— Port Stanley — about twenty miles away. Arriving there we found that there was a climb before us. The nest was situated in a large red oak in the corner of a field,, with woods on both sides of it. About a mile west you could see the docks putting out into the Lake, at the Port, while half that distance to the south of us the water was breaking on the cliffs. The tree itself was six feet in diam- eter at the base, and tapered down to three and a half at the first limb which was seventy feet from the ground. The nest was situated 35 feet above that, on an upright branch out to one side of the tree. The bark was fast to the tree although it was partly dead, and as I afterward found out so hard that it was only with the greatest dilfi- culty that I could drive the spurs of the climbers into it. After a laborious climb I succeeded in reaching the nest — but then! there lay two beautiful fresh eggs — my reward. The nest was three feet deep by three and a half wide on top and tapering to where it was placed in a crotch, built of large sticks and quite hollow in the centre, where a neat nest of straw had been built on which the eggs x'ested. Having care- fully lowered these to the ground, I commenced the descent, feeling well repaid for the climb. The eggs were almost white with slight bluish tinge and measure 3.04x3.70 and 3.00x3.74 re- spectively. We learned from Mr. Himdley, on whose farm the nest was, that a pair of Eagles had nested on his place, every year for upwards of 50 years, during which time the nest had been bio vn THE OOLOGIST. 47 down four times. The first nest was built in a chestnut, the second in a white oak, this nest was 100 feet up, Mr. H. taking a pair of young birds by felling a tree against the one contain- ing the nest. The third nest was in an- other chestnut. Fifteen years ago the Eagles first built in the present red oak on the central limb, where it remained for eleven or twelve years, when it, too, was blown down, and they built the present nest. Some years ago one of old ones was shot. The other sailed away, returning next day with a mate. While building the nest the Eagles would fly along and seize a dead limb in their claws, thus breaking it off. The male does not allow any Eagle to rest near his domain and drives him away by a series of attacks. This led to the capture of two Eagles under pe- culiar circumstances. A farmer west of Port Stanley, while walking along the shore, came upon two Eagles with their feet bound fast in the long grass. They had been fighting with the result that they were both captured alive. One of our commonest Hawks is the Red-shouldered {Buteo lineaius). This large Hawk may be seen sailing in graceful circles, high above the trees, most any fine day. It is one of the "Hen Hawks' of the farmer, and often faces a victim to his vengeance on a charge of chicken stealing, a charge which he is seldom, if ever, guilty of, his food consisting almost entirely of mice and snakes among which it cre- ates great havoc. This Hawk builds its nest in beech trees almost without exception. I have taken several sets of eggs varying greatly in markings. The first set was ot three taken Apr. 28, 1896, with distinct blotches of brown on two of the eggs, the third being scarcely marked. Another set taken on the second of the next March, were also well marked and were perfectly fresh. May 24, 1897, I took a set of five high- ly incubated from a nest 60 feet up in a maple. This is the only set, so far, that I have taken from any tree, ex- cept beech. Some of the eggs are heavily marked, the small ends of two of them being almost uniform brown. Another set of four on the 28th of the same month had two eggs without a distinct blotch, the other two are only slightly incubated. But for Red-should- ereds a set of four taken on the 12th of last April surpasses them all. They are nearly uniform in size, 1.73x2.13 and of a very light background heavily blotched with dark brown. The sur- faces of two of them seeming to be half brown, so thickly are they marked. The last set taken April 80th contained four highly incubated eggs, four of which are heavily marked, the fifth having no distinct markings. The Red- tail {Buteo borealis) is an- other large Hawk which seems to be quite plentiful. Its favorite position is setting on a dead tree in the edge of the woods or in a field, watching for mice, which form a large part of their diet. The nest is built of sticks and bark, is of a large size and placed in any large tree, generally in an elm .or beech. The eggs, two or three in number, have a whitish background with markings of brown and lilac. A set of two taken April 23, 1897, measure 1.72x2 35 and 1.80x2.40 respectively. Cooper's Hawk {Accipter coojjeri). This destructive Hawk is well' repre- sented in numbers, and many are the geese, chickens and small rodents that fall a victim to his dexterity. A set taken May 7, 1897, contains four blueish eggs: one of them being blotched with lilac on smaller end. I have also found Swainson's Broad- winged and American Sparrow Hawk breeding here, while I shot a female American Rough-leg while collecting Hawk's eggs in April. The American Osprey occurs along the Lake shore, and in fall and spring 48 THE OOLOGIST. the Pigeon and Goshawks are some- times seen, the former quite often. There are also two or three others that are here in fall and winter, which I have not as yet bad a chance to indentify. The Owls are lepiesented by the fol- lowing: Gt. Horned {Bubo virginian- us), Am. Long-eared Owl [Asio wilson- ianus), Screech Owl and Short-eared Owl. The first three I have found breeding. The Gt. Horned is quite common in all the larger blocks of woods, one nest found April 28, 1898, contained two young about one-third grown. On the edge of the nest were part of four large rats. The Owls had taken possession of an old Red-tail's nest which was situated in a maple 70 feet up. I Avas surprised to find a nest of Bubo in such an open place, as you could see right through the woods, and it did not contain a single-evergreen. On May 4th while botanizin,<- in the edge of a large swamp,' I discovered a full-grown young Bubo sitting in a sec- ond growth maple: A little search found the other young one in a hollow pine stub. At the foot of the stub were the remains, of some previous feasts — the hind quarters of a "Cotton tail," the feathers of a Crow. The old ones came quite near iu their anxiety for their young. I have found three nests of Asio wilsonianus this year. The first nest April 25th contained three young and two eggs. The second nest found same day, four fresh eggs. The third nest May 9th contained five fresh eggs. In every case they had taken posses- sion of old Crow's nests, in second growth pines. The Short-eared Owl is often seen in the fall, generally in pairs when disturbed circling around in their peculiar tiight. The Snowy Owl [Nyc- tca nyctea) is often shot along the shore of Lake Erie during the winter, and I have record of one being caught in a steel trap in June, while extracting young chickens from a coop. He had been visitiuff the coop night after night. R. T. Anderson, Aylmer West, Ontario. A Correction, Mr. W. Liud.«ay Foxhall in the Feb- ruary issue of the Oologist, page 27, states that the Chickadee, Panis] at- ricapU/us, i- a common resident of Edgecombe County, N. C, which is in th(! eastern part of the state. 1 want to ask if this is not a mistake, for this bird is con.sidered a rare and irregular win- ter rf'sident in this locality; and while I am aware that it breeds in the moun tains of Nor.'h Carolina. I have never .'•een the breeding range given so as to include the eastern part of the state. I presurne he refers to the Carolina Chickadee [Pums carolincnsis), a very similar bird. Hoping you will conect this error if it should be one, I remain, J. Harvey Riley. Eg-gs of Greater Yellow-legs. On April 27th, a female Greater Yel- low-legs (locally called Tell-tale or Prai- rie Tmkej), was shot-near this village. It was observed that she was quite plump and a slight pressure brought to light a pel feet and finely marked egg. The ground color is light grey, prof- usely marked over the entire surface with dots and heavy blotches of deep lavender and dark brown. The egg measures 1.30x1.67 inches and is somewhat similar in shape to the egg of our Bartramian Sandpiper. The larger and heavier splashes of rich brown, add a pleasing color and serve to readily distinguish the egg, from those of our resident Sandpipers. Question:— Did this bird intend to nest in this vicinity? Does the species ever nest so far south as this, the 40th parallel v Isaac E. Hess, Philo, Ills. The Oologist. VOL. XV. NO. G. ALBION, N. Y., JUNE, 1898. Whole No. 14 A Collecting- Trip in California. For a long time I had been trying to fiad the principal nesting place or places of the myriads of Hummingbirds seen in the valley during the rainy season. At last I hat" found it, and here I was with my ftet turned toward a small pass through the foot-hills, known locally as Brea Canon. The day was all that could be desired a perfect ''day in June." High over- head in the cloudless blue soared a sin- gle Vulture, mute witness to the end of all things. From every fence-post a Meadowlark poured forth his bubbling song, while from every hillside num- bers of Western Lark Sparrows rose in small coveys. Here and there a Bur- rowing Owl regarded me with great, round eyes from the doorway of his subterranean home. Road-runners and Towhees now and again appeared at the border of some dense thicket or clump of cacti. All the world was alive and making the most of that life while the cool hours of the morning re- mained. Bat I must hurry over the events of my trip, only stopping to notice the taking of three eggs of the California Thrasher [Harporhynclms redivivus]. I considered this remarkable only in that the eggs were fresh and the date rather late for this species. The nest as usual was merely a platform of sticks and the eggs a beautiful pea- green spotted with brown. At last, about eight o'clock, I arrived at a place which to my mind seemed to be the home of every Hummingbird in Southern California. The brushy sides of the canon formed excellent nesting sites for the Towhees, Thrashers and Western Yellow-throats; from an old sheep "corral" came the musical call of the Valley Quaii; but down where the little stream wandered along among tall willows and knotty oaks there were the Hummingbirds. From under a leflge of rock darted a Black Phoebe ( Sayornis nigricayis). Soon her tiny nest, placed so snugly under the sheltering rock, was found, and the five slightly incubated eggs, pure white in color, packed safely away in my box. Glancing upward I saw not ten feet above me a nest, from which only the tail of the parent bird could be seen. A few minutes' climb revealed to me a female of Cassin's Purple Finch [Carpodacus cassini). This nest contained four badly incubat- ed eggs, but as they were my tirst set of this species I took them together with the nest. Sitting down under the spreading branches of a live oak 1 heard the pe- culiar note of a California Bush-tit. Long and diligently I searched and at last found — her empty nest. A pair of Costa's Hummers (Trochilus costm) seemed to be very much excited, the female repeatedly darting at my head. Finally, after standing immovable for nearly half an hour, I was pleased to see Mrs. Trochilus settle down on the tiny white nest. The nest together with the two pure white eggs it con- tained soon found its way into my col- lecting box. A little further on an- other nest of the same species contain- ing one highly incubated egg, was found. This I did not take as the shell these eggs in this conditicn is about as tender as wet blotting paper. In a small clump of "tules," cover- ing perhaps a square rod, was a pair of Marsh Wrens, but no nest could be found. Far up in the top of a tall wil- -50 THE U0LO(il81 low, swung a pensile nest, ownership unknown. A vigorous shaking of the tree sent a female Bullock's Oriole (Ic- terus buUocki) off the nest in short or- der. Four young birds nearly ready to fly rewarded my climb. Walking slowly along the banks of the Arroyo 1 was surprised to see a Cal- ifornia Chickadee leave an old stump in response to a hearty rap with my cane. For the first time in my life J had found the home of Partes rufescens neglectus, I was almost afraid to open the nest for fear that no eggs would be found. Much to my delight five half incubated eggs were lying on a mass of fur, feathers and seed down, fitted so closely together that no possible cold could come to the young, when hatch- ed. These eggs do nf t differ at all from those of the common Chickadee {Parus atricapillus) so well known to Eastern collectors. Passing under the spreading branches of a live oak I heard the sudden whirr of tiny wings. Just on a level with my eyes I found the nest, and a few min- utes' waiting showed me the parent birds. The cmnamon colored throat and metallic crest plainly showed them to be Rufous Hummingbirds. The nest contained two fresh eggs and was well hidden on the extreme tip of a small limb. The eggs seem to differ from those of other Trochilickr only in being more oval, and the nest larger than us- ual with Hummingbirds. On the oppo- site side of this tree was a nest of Costa's Hummer [Troehilus costie) containing two eggs nearly fresh. Further on, in the top of a tall Willow was found a nest of Cassin's Kingbird ( Tyrcmnus vociferans). To my surprise the nest contained four eggs i:H*ubation about one-half. This is liin only nest of this species I have ever found placed on a horizontal limb. Usuallv a fork is taken and the nest placed on a more solid foundation. By this time 1 was quite ready for my lunch as it was past two o'clock. While eating I noticed a pair of Cassin's Vireos but was unable to locate the nest. Perhaps' however, their house- keeping was over for that season. By carefully watching a pair of Violet- green Swallows I found two nests high up in the face of a limestone cliff. They had chosen two cracks in the face of the stone, but by dint of hard labor had so filled them up that a sort of shelf was formed, on which the eggs, three and five respectiuely, were laid. Gen- erally these birds prefer a hollow tree or else a "lunuel" into the face of the cliff; rather than an open nest. The eggs were pure white and fresh. I think the set of three was incomplete, as they generally, in this section at least, lay from four to seven eggs. There were at least fifty nests of the common Cliff' Swallow ' (Pe^rocMiVZon lunifrons) on the same cliff', but these I did not disturb as my series of this spe- cies was full and probably most of the nests contained young. For the next hour my search was un- rewarded. Then I took a fine set of California Towhee (Pijnlo fuscus cris- scclis). The nest, firmly woven and well lined, was placed in a white sage bush which overhung the stream. It contained four eggs incubation slight. While these nests are large and bulky and their owners very familiar, still they are not so easily found as might be supposed. But it was now time to start for home, so retracing my steps I went slowly down the canon. Walking care- lessly along I brushed my hand against a tall "nettle weed." This brought an exclamation from me and a sudden "whir-r-r" from the bush. Looking down I saw not over two feet from the ground a Hummingbird's nest contain- ing two eggs. The return of the birds at once identified the eggs as those of Troehilus alexandri — the Black-chinned Hummingbird. Packing these in my case I started once more on my return THE OOLOGIS'I 51 journey, aniviug at home tired but well pleased with the day's trip. Hakry H. Dunn. FuUerton, Orange Co., Cal.- The Photographing- of Birds. Their Nests and Eg-g-s. To me a trip after birds eggs is in- complete without the taking of a few photographs. Not only because they recall to mind many of the delights of the trip but because they are of the ut- most scientltic value. It is impossible in writing out the data for a set of eggs to give all the particulars of the loca- tion of the nest and the locality, and yet these are perhaps the most import- ant things next to the dale. In the following article I purpose to give a few hints, a suggestion to collec- tors which I think will be found of con- siderable value, both to the beginner and the moi'e advanced student. THE CAMERA. First of all get a good camera. There are many on the market and you will find no trouble in getting one tha.t is suited to the purpose. It should be ai-- ranged for both time and instantaneous exposures The size of the pictures should be 3Ax3i inches or over. 1 find the 4x5 size the best for all round work. Either plates or films can be used, but the latter on account of less weight are much better. A film camera weighs w^hen loaded less than one half as much as a plate glass camera. This will be found of the utmost importance as extra weight is always to be avoided on a collecting trip. A large picture is of course the best. There are two ways of arriving at this point, one is by using a 5x7 or over camera and the other is by enlarging. The latter is preferable as a 5x7 camera is unweildy and a good negative from the smaller camera can be enlarged up to 30x40 inches, or to any intermediate size desired. Of course the larger camera does away with the extra work of enlarging, but it is a question wheth- er this makes up for the greater handi- uess of the smaller one. Better pictures can be obtained b^' the use of a tripod as most of the pict- ures will have to be time exposures and few, if any, can hold a camera steady enough for this purpose. Of course the tripod adds extra weight and is not a very convenient thing to carry, but there is one that comes which folds up into a staff about four feet long which will be found a very acceptable aid in walking as well as being always ready for use. FOCUSING. The next thing to be considered is focusing. If any reader will take the trouble to look through some of our il- lustrated Ornithological Magazines he will tind that in eighty per cent of the pictures either the entire picture or some part of it is more or less indis- tinct. This arises from two causes, tirst, the camera has been placed too near the object, and second, the camera has not been held steady. Let me say right here doii't get too near the object. The nest or bird may appear very small in the tinder but it will be twenty times the size on the plate and if you intend to enlarge you can make it plenty big enough. The 3ix3i inch camera will be found to make the best pictures as it is known as the fixed-focus type. That is, all objects are in the same focus. The larger camera are of the acromatic-type and have to be focussed. Never get nearer than eight feet of the object to be photographed, if you do the picture will be blurred and con- sequently worthless. Always keep your camera horizontal otherwise the pict- ure will be slanting. In certain cases the camera can be pointed downward. Endeavor to get your photo when the sun is shining from behind, but you can also take it when the sunlight comes 52 THE UOLOGIST from either side in which ease you must prevent the direct sunlight from striking the lens of the camera. It will sometimes be found advanta- geous to use a mirror and by means of it tirow a beam of light on the object while photographing it. However, there is another way of reaching the same end. Make the exposure longer and when developing as soon as appears the part which is lightest in the object photographed will appear tirst. As soon as it is distinct take the plate out of the developer and wash it off with clear, cold water. Then take a fine, soft camel's hair brush and paint over that part of the surface which appeared tirst with a ten per cent, solution of Bromide of Potassium. Repeat this several times according to density of the diflt'erent parts of plate. Replace in developer and develope until fin- ished. The bromide restrains that part of the plate treated and allows the other part of the plate to come up. TIME AND INSTANTANEOUS EXPOSURES. Nests in the open fields and large nests on isolated trees, nests built on the seashore and on rocks can be pho- tographed instantaneously but nests in the thickets and deep woods must be time exposures. The length of time for exposures var- ies according to the brand of plates, amount of light and size of stop used. I advocate a quick plate. The small- er the stop the sharper and better the picture but the exposure must be lengthened accordingly. Where there is a fair amount of light four seconds is about the proper time using the largest stop. If using the smallest, ten times as long is required or forty seconds. To those who may not know what the stop is the following explanation will suffice. In the better make of cameras a small circular diaphragm of steel is used. It is placed either in- front of, or between the lenses and is perforated with circul- ar holes of different sizes and can be moved so that the different holes are brought opposite the lenses The largest stop must always be used for snap shots unless the picture is tak- en over water upon which bright sun- light is falling in which case the next size smaller is used. DEVELOPING AND PRINTING. Any good developer will do and the plates are developed the same as others. A few drops of a ten per cent, solution of bromide of potassium will be found useful in retarding over exposed nega- tives. If you intend to publish your photo- graphs albumen paper is the best to print on. Print carefully and tone so as to obtain clear whites The picture should be careful!}' mounted and highly burnished. I trust that the few hints which I have given will be found useful and if this does not reach the editor's scrap-basket I will give a few pointers on enlarging and photographirg of wild birds in their haunts, in the near future. Robert C Woodhouse, New York City. Davie's ''Nests and Eggs of North American Birds,'' is out and ready for delivery— in fact has been for two months, but ovving to some sort of a complication between printer and pub- lisher the edition is held up pending a settlement. An early untanglement of affairs is most siucei-ely to be hoped — if possible; urgently demanded. Until then interested parties must wait with best possiljle grace. Ripans Tabules cure dyspepsia. THE OOLOGIST. 53 The Oologist. A MonlWy Publication Devoted to OOLOGY, 0RNITH0L0G7 AND TAXIDERMY. 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This handsome little Warbler tirst came under my observation in 1888, while out looking for Downy Wood- peckers' eggs. I was out in the bottom lands of the Missi.-sippi River working my way along the edge of the pond, among the willows and birch, when out flew what I at first thought was a Yellow Warblei-, but on getting a bet- ter view, saw it was a new bird to me. Did not tiud any nests that year itit in 1S89 found a set of six handsome eggs on Jnub 15th, iu an old Downy Wood- pecker's hole, 1 laced in a rotten stub. The nest was a mass of moss, some of which still had the roots and dirt ad- hering, tilling the cavity almost to the top, lined with a few strips of the inner bark of grapevines, some hair-like roots, and a feather. Since then I have taken many nests and eggs ranging from three to seven in each nest. Some heavily marked with large spots and blotches, others thinly and evenly marked with small spots and specks, of a reddish or brownish color, with lilac shell mark- ings iiLderneath. Some years the bulk of the nests were found in stubs standing at the edge of or in the water, other years from ten to one hundred feet back from it, and in thick woods. They were the most numerous iu the marshy bottom land at the head of Lake Pepin, where there were many stubs, dead trees and stumps standing in and at the edge of the water. This year I went down there with Willis F. Hill of Lake City, Minn., and we cnly found one set of four and another nest con- taining one egg. T.ae action of the ice in spring and heavy winds having torn and blown down nearly all of the suit- able nesting places, causing them to seek nesting sites somewhere else. The height of the nesting season was from May 30th to about June 15th, in some years, and others from about June 5th to about the 25th. The height ranged from one foot above water (one nest) and two feet ta thirteen feet, averaging from four to six feet up. One dead tree contained a Prothonotary Warbler's nest six feet up, autl two feet higher a Tree Swallow, and about six feet higher a Downy Woodpecker's. All containing young. Nearly every nest found was in an old 54 THE OOLOGIST. and sometimes broken out Downv Woodpecker's hole. Very frequently we could tear away the rotten wood all around the nest and take it out whole. The oldest and rottenest holes seem to be preferred. In all the books and papers that I have, none mention this Warbler as a summer resident, except G. G. Cant- well's list of the birds of Minnestoa. It certainly should be classed as fairly common in .suitable localities along the Mississippi River in southern Min- nesota. C. B. Johnson, Red Wing, Minn. Nesting of the Short-eared Owl in Western New York. On April 7th while on a trip for Hawk's eggs I had the good fortune to find a set of Short-eared Owls. As I am unable to find anything about this bird in such back numbers of the Oc'vLO- GiST as are in my possession I thought it might interest your reader's to know something about this find. The nest was in a low swampy tract of land on the outskirts of a tamarack swamp. The land had at one time been plowed and parallel ditches dug about 20 feet apart, but it had evidently never been cultivated for it was overgrown with weeds and cat-tails. I had just jumped one of these ditches when the old Owl flew up not 10 feet ahead of me, and began circling around me snapping her bill and giving a pe- culiar cry resembling very much the "yowl" of a cat when you step on her tail. A hasty examination of the clump of flags from which she had flown dis- closed seven (7) eggs in all stages of dirtiness from the worst {probably the hrst one laid) which was stained a dark drab, to the best which was a pure white. The nest was simply a slight hollow in the ground, id the center of a bunch of last years Ihigs, it was lined with flags from the clump in which it was located and contained a few feathers. It measured 6 inches in diameter hy 2i inches deep. Beside it lay a little ball consisting of the fur, bones ami teeth of some small animal, probably a mouse. Before disturbing the nest, however, I turned my attention to the bird and by the aid of my opera glasses 1 was able to get a very good description of her while she was hovering over me, and finally when she gave up and alighted on a small tree near by I was able to get a good stationary view of her from all sides. 1 then returned to the nest (which I had marked by sticking my climber in the ground near it), packed the eggs and started on. On blowing, the eggs were found to be slightly incubated. They measured 1.51x1.30, 1.53x1.26, 1 68x1 25, 1.53x1.31. 1.56x130, 1.58x1.29 and 157x1.28. I had no trouble in identifying the bird from the noies. The location of the nest would have almost proven the species. I think that there must be several pair in the vicinity for there was hardly a stump or an ant hill in the whole marsh that did not have one or two of those little balls of fur and bones on it. While passing through a marsh near the river two days later I saw another pair of the birds but was unable to find their nest. I find that Short in his list of birds of Western New York has this bird down as, "Common fall or winter visitant and possible rare breeder." I am glad to be able to prove that his supposition was correct. FR.A.NK S. Low, . Buffalo, N. Y. I SOLD my Eagle through the adv. Adver- tising in the Oologist pays. F. W. COLLINS. Garden City. Kans. THE OOLOGIST. 55 Nesting- Habits of the Red-breasted Nuthatch. The Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitla can- udensis is generally distributed through- out this State, occuring as a resident of varying abundance in that portion which is embraced iu the Canadian Fauna, and as a winter resident in the southwestern part. The species is most abundant in spring and fall, and when resident, is moi'e common in summer than iu winter. Though oc- curing at all seasons they are somewhat migratory, moving southward in the fail and returning in the spring, but whether the winter birds are individ- uals that do not take part in the mi- gratory movement, or are migrants from the north 1 am unable to deter- mine. The past winter I found these birds wintering quite commonly in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, along th9 shore of the Bay of Fundy. The call-note "quank'" "qiiank"' *'quank'' is well known, but the numer- ous conversational notes of which they have quite an extensive command, are not so often heard. Many of these are uttered in so low and soft a tone that one must be quite near the birds to hear them. I think their notes are more varied than those of their White- breasted relative which is much less common here, but are not as loud. I have never seen the two species asso- ciated, though the Red-breasted gets along very amiably with the Chicka- dees and Brown Creepers, and are usually found with them in the spring and fall. In their quest for food most of their time is spent on the trunks and limbs of the large trees, searching the in- terstices in the bark and the bunches of moss for something edible, working with much assiduity, all the time on the go, often clinging head downward, and with much conversational chatter. In the fall they frequently ascend to the tops of the spruces, woi'king about over the limbs and searching the cones closely. In rare instances I have seen them come to the ground and scratch around among the leaves for food. In this locality the birds usually com- mence nesting operations late in April and the full complement is generally in the nest by the 20Lh of May, though the date varies somewhat accoi'ding to the earli- ness or lateness of the spring. The locality chosen is in old growths, prin- cipally of soft wood, in which dead and decaying tir stubs are numerous, and where the ground is rather low and damp. Fir stubs are most frequently chosen and the nest cavities are excavated at heights varying from five to forty feet. Most of the nests I have examined were between fifteen and thirty feet from the ground. The slender bill of the bird is hardly strong enough for dig- ging in sound wood and the nests are nearly always in wood so rotten that it is easily broken away with the fingers, or can be cut away with a jack-knife. The nests are easily found. I generally go into the woods about the time the birds are excavating a nest cavity and listen for their note. They are usually near the nest and once they are located the nest can be found by observing the birds. The tapping of the bird in the nest-hole can be heard some distance away and is easily located. I have never seen the birds sharing the work of excavation a^ is done by the Chickadees, Mr. Nuthatch allowing his better half to do it all, though he is near and offers encouragement in the way of song and occasionally a dainty morsel is brought and presented for re- freshment. The female (distinguished by her paler coloration) enters the cav- ity and taps away for a time, then brings out the bits of wood she has de- tached. Usually she comes entirely out of the hole standing head downward 56 THE OOUGIST. and ssattering the contents of her bill by a flirt of the head, turning around to enter again Soiuetimts only the head is protruded from the hole, the wood being scattered iu the same way. The entrance is an inch and a half in diameter and the cavity is Ave to six inches in depth. The nests, of which I have several before me, are all precise- ly alike. They are rather slight struc- tures composed entirely of fine brown- ish shreds of cedar bark, placed in the bottom of the cavity. I have never known the birds to use a cavity other than of their own con- struction and a new cavity seems to be made for every nest. Usually some feathers become detached from the bird and are attached to the wall of the cav- ity and mingle with the nest material. The eggs are live to seven in number, six being most freq lenty found; pure white, dotted with red, more heavily at the larger end where the spots some- times tend to form a wreath. A typi- cal set measures in inches, .63x.47, .60X.48, .65x45, GIkAI, .61x.47, .61x47. They are not distinguishable from eggs of the Chickadee but the nest is entii'e- ly diti'erent and could not be mistaken. There is always a quantity of fresh tir pitch about the entrance to the nest, frequently entirely surrounding it, the greatest quantity being directly below the entrance and often extending down some inches. I have never been able to satisfactorily determine its purpose, but it is invariably present. The nest is about as easily found after incubation commences as when it is being built, as a few raps on the stub is sufficient to cause the bird to leave the nest. If one knows a pair of Nuthatches are nesting in a certain block of woods, a careful examination of the suitable stubs, rapping on each, will be quite certain to reveal the nest. The parent birds display considerable solicitude whenever the nest is disturbed, remain- ing near, uttering notes of anger and distress. The female is especially bold,, coming close to ihe dispoiler of her- home and uttering those protests which are the hai'dest part of collecting even though we knovv the distress we are caasiug will be soon forgotten and an- other nest and eggs replace the ones we are taking. C H. Morrell, Pittstield, Maine. April Contest. Twenty-two subscribers sent in their opinions as to the value of April OoLO GIST. Seven articles were mentioned. The wiauiug one and credits and pre- miums to which each is entitled follows : 1st pri7.e, $3 00 cash. -"The Summer Home of Vireo SoUtarins Cassini and Other Notes." 46 credits, j 2d priz^, $5.00 worth of books 'Red- head and Ruddy." 39 credits. 3d prize, $5.00 worth of premiums. "Prairie Horned Lark in Illinois." 37 credits. Six judges nameil the winning arti- cles in their correct; order, hence the piize> were awarded in the order in whie'a their decisions were received. 1st priz3, $1.00 cash. No. 1, E. A. Doolittle. Painesville, O. 2d prize, $1.00 worth of books. No. 4, F. B. Mclvechnie, Dorchester, Mass. 3d prize, $1.00 worth of premiums. No. 9, V. L. Beed, Hampton, Iowa. Inasmuch as the three following named the winning articles 50 cents, worth of premiums were awarded each. No. 14, R. P. Smlthwick, Merry Hill, N.C. No. 15, Ralph W. Clayton, Galesburg,. Ills. No. 19, R. H. Beek, Berryessa, Cal. A portion of the Mss. received in. June contest appears in May and June OoLOGisrs. The balance will appear in July issue at which time an oppor- tunity will be given the readers of the OoLOGiST to decide on the merits of the articles iu the three numbers. The OoLOGisT. VOL. XV. NO. 7. ALBION, N. Y., JULY, 1898. Whole No. 146 A Day With the Parulas. L\ke A more bt^auiiful .-^pot is hard ro tinrl It is one :«l tree eight ,feet high. Four slightly incubated eggs were the contents. From this spot the nests became fairly common, being placed in a variety of situations. Some were over ten feet up while others were not five. One was hung right over mid stream and without the boat could not have been examined. The male birds in all cases were singing about three hundred yards away, and unless the nests held sets, the females were not observed. The majority of nests were empty, being about completed and others held two or four eggs, the latter number being the set. Only twice while taking eggs was any alarm displayed ■ and then the females simply uttered a few chirps after leaving the nests, and then flew oft'. We urged the skiff along in this way till past noon when aiTiving at the bridge our progress was stopped. Here we ate lunch and then started back to look for the inlet to the lake. This we found in much the same way as the outlet. The inlet which we called "Usnea Creek'" is only navigable for a short distance where it broadens into a thick swamp. The Parulas were not so abundant here and we found but three nests. A pair of Chickadees were singing loudly about, so a little search found us the nest in a paper- birch stub leaning over the water. It contained young almost ready to fly. The afternoon was now well spent, so , turning towards home we slowly rowed along looking for more nests in the moss which still continued to be thick about the hornbeams. Three more nests were seen, one containing two eggs, the rest empty. A Green Heron called from a cedar clump near and arose splashingly. We entered and found a nest containing young about hatched with the broken shells beneath. A few Black-throated Green Warbler's were singing their quaint songs about the cedar tops, but we failed to find their nests. We reached the shore in an hour or so, and pulling up the boat, with a last THE UOLOGISr 59 look at the lake over which the suu was now beaming, left. A pair of Spotted Sand-pipers tlew noisily before us and in the pasture above a Vesper Sparrow flushed from her nest and three eggs. Chats flew passionately into the air pour- ing forth their medley of songs, and Bob White's called from the brush. It was a long-to-be-remembered scene. Our last Parula's nest was found as we were passing thi'ough an old moss grown orchard, it was entirely dift'erent from all of the others. The general shape was that of the lower half of a Baltimore orioles nest, straws were sticking through the moss and it was almost entirely composed of the disk shaped usnea, 'Usnea barbata." Four eggs slightly incubated was the com- plement contained. The male was singing from the woods near. The illustration shows a typical nest as we found tnem. It was photo- graphed at home and showed fairly well the shape and situation. With the ex- ception of the last nest found, all of our nests were entirely composed of the moss with the addition of a few fine straws or pine needles which constitut- ed a flrmer lining for the bottom of the nest. The average egg measures .63x .40 and is glos.^y white dotted with claret brown and lilac, often wreathed about the larger end. The size of the nest of course varies with the bunch of moss selected, but the entrance has a diameter averaging about three fourths of an inch. Frank J. Birtwell, Dorchester, Mass. Purther Remarks on Ornithological Photography. Editor Oologist: Noticing the remarks of Mr. R. C. Woodhouse in the June issue dn this subject I beg to submit a few suggest- ions along this line, which difler mater- ially in many respects from the above writer's experience. Doubtless every collector who has made use of the cam- era in the tield will agree as to its in- estimable value, and each artist has probably marked out his own methods of photographing birds and nests, and consequently what I may oS'er is simp- ly individual opinion. The collector who goes afield should not expect to gain valuable results without some trouble and pains, and many of the best ornithological views are the results of continued patience and perseverance on the part of the artist. If 50U have a subject worth taking do not mind a little extra weight or trouble in getting your apparatus to the spot. Select a good camera and a large one if necessary and you will not regret your troulde when the finished print lies before you. I would advocate using at least a 5x7 camera, as it gives the test all-round satisfactory results and is not as un- wieldy as one who has not used it would be led to believe. I have used a 5x7 camera entirely' for several years and never find it a burden when I have bird photography in view, and espec- ially if the subject is to be one 01 inter- est. My present camera is a "Midget," manufactured by the R. O. Co., and can be folded up to a thickness of about 2\ inches and the lense and shutter dropped into my pocket. The plate holders can be packed next the camera and the whole wrapped in a focusing cloth and carried by a strap, making a convenient package, and when in use is transformed into a very neat bellows camera. I should by all means recom- mend a focusing camera and not one of the fixed-focus type, the results with the former being eminently more satisfac- tory. Use a tripod and take time to care- fully focus on the bird or nest you wish to take; then use the "stop" you con- sider will gl\-e the best results and time accordingly. In such cases with 60 THE OOLOGIST. a focus camera, good results are almost certain to follow. No hard and fast rules can be given as to timing photo- graphs, there being many factors nec- essary for consideration in each sub- ject. I prefer a time view wherever possible, even in the sunlight, when with a moderate stop and quick expos- ure the reuslts seem superior: to an in- stantaneous view. A small stop and long exposure will give great detail, but a moderate stop and quicker ex- posure produces a greater contrast of light and shade. Mr. Woodhouse recommends that you ''never get nearer than eight feet from the object to be photographed." By using a focus camera and p roper stops a nest can be perfectly photo- graphed at a much less distance, and without any part of the picture being out of focus. There are many subjects which we meet in the field which re- quire unusual treatment to secure and many of the rules usually followed must be disregarded if the object is to be photogi'aphed. This summer while in the mountains I found a nest of the Hermit Warbler 45 feet ap in a pine tree, which I wished very much to re- cord in situ. The nest was on a hori- zontal limb, resting on the pine needles not over five feet from the top of the tree. There was no opportunity to use a tripod or stand for the camera so I was obliged to straddle a small limb, hold on to the tinink of the tree and hold the camera tightly against the tree until the proper focus was gained. Then, owing to the sun shining indi- rectly ou the nest, it was necessary to make a quick time exposure. The nest was not over four feet form the camera and is almost in perfect focus, as are also the limbs about it. I made four negatives of the nest, one instantaneous one being undertimed in the shade and the others slightly blurred by the vi- bration of the limb. But the one per- fect negative is a pleasing reward for all my trouble. Nests and birds taken at four and five feet distant almost al- ways come out well if properly focused and a suitable stop used. I also use occasionally an"extension" which fits into the camera in place of the front board, the latter fitting into the front end of the extension, and thus giving about six inches greater focus and making small nests and ob- jects almost natural size. Small nests may be photographed at a distance of from one to two feet but should be giv- en a longer exposure than is necessary wifh the camera proper, and the small- est stop should be used which will usu- ally cut a sharp picture. I use Stanley "50" plates, which give excellent results and are rapid. The matter of finishing the pictures rests with the individual and his taste; per- sonally I prefer the Aristo gelatine fin- ish, and dry my prints on ferrotype tin, which imparts a high polish. Finally the worker who expects interesting re- sults must prepare for and endure often considerable trouble before his object is attained, but the greater the work necessary to secure a good photo- graph, the more will it afterwards be appreciated. C. Barlow. Santa Clara, Calif. A Collecting- Trip in the Thousand Islands. There are many quarters in America known as the "Thousand Islands," and in every case they are interesting to ob- servers and tourists. I have had the pleasure of winding about, and in and out among the islands of several of these picturesque groups, from a steamer trip through the celebrated group in the beautiful St. Lawrence river to a canoe cruise among the mangrove-lined edges of the low isles in Florida. One April not long since two other collectors and myself were rusticating at a small hotel at the southern part of NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 107 is said to breed in the large marshes. Here the eggs are usually laid on a tussock entirely surrounded by water, and so near it that the female sometimes sits with her feet in the water. On the islands of Franklin Bay and on those of the Arctic Ocean, the Whistling Swan constructs a large nest of moss, grass and herbage of various kinds. According to Nelson this fine bird arrives on the shore of Bering Sea in the vicinity of St. Michael's early in May, and in some seasons by the 27th of April. At Nulato, Dall found them laying eggs by May 21, but on the sea coast the earliest date Nelson records is May 30. The ordinary number to a nest is three to six. The nest is usually upon a small island in some secluded lakelet, or on a to a clutch is usually two, sometimes only one and very rarely three. When three are found in a nest it is generally believed that the third has been laid by another female. According to Mr. Ingraham's observations the nests in our illustration must be considered correct except in height. They are simply small mounds. The old story of the Flamingo bestriding its nest in an ungainly attitude while incubating is absurd fiction. The eggs are one or two in number, elongate-ovate in shape, with a thick shell, roughened, with a white flakey substance, but bluish when this is scraped off. It requires thirty-two days for the eggs to hatch. Size 3.57x2.20, with considerable variation. 183. HOSEATE SPOONBILL. Ajaja ajaja (Linn.) Geog. Dist.— Southern Unfted States and southward into Southern America. Formerly north to Southern Illinois. The Rosy Spoonbill, of so handsome plumage and singular form, is distributed throughout South and Central America, Mexico, and in all favorable localities of the Gulf region of the United States. In Florida it was formerly abundant, but its num- bers have greatly diminished by the constant persecution of the "plume hunters." Rare as far north as the Carolinas. Marshy or muddy borders of estuaries, the mouths of rivers, shrubby islands of tropical seas, or some dense marsh, are the favorite breeding resorts. Mr. R. E. Rachford visited a smaii colony of these birds in Southwestern Louisiana, June 2, 1886. The birds were found nesting in a clump of cypress trees in a low marshy place fully twenty miles from habitation. Here also nested the Snow, Louisiana and Little Blue Herons, and the Snaive Bird. The nests of the Spoonbills were placed from eight to eighteen feet from the ground, dnd the usual number of eggs found in the nests was three or four; althougu from one nest seven eggs were taken, and five or six from several others. The nests were platforms of sticks, and for the most part were built close to the trunKs of the trees; they were usually more massive than the Herons' nests. The general shape of the eggs is ovate; and their color is white, or buffy-white, blotched, spotted and stained with various shades of brown; sometimes a pure white egg is found in a nest with spotted or marked examples. They measure from 2.50x1.70 to 2.60x1.77. 184. WHITE IBIS, diiard alhn (Linn.) Geog. Dist.— South Atlantic and Gulf States southward to the West Indies and Northern South America: casually on the Atlantic coast to Long Island; in the interior to the Lower Ohio Valley and Great Salt Lake. The White Ibis or Spanish Curlew is distributed in summer throughout the South Atlantic and Gulf States from the Carolinas southward, throughout Mexico. Central America, and portions of Northern South America. It breeds in communi- ties by thousands in the tangled marshes of the southern coast; fastening the nest to broken down or upright living reeds; it is composed of reeds, compactly woven 108 i?.n NE8T8 AND EGOS OF European Spoonbill i From Brehm). together, is deep and much hollowed, which is unlike the frail platform nests of the herons. Mr. Stuart says the White Ibis breeds abundantly on the low mangrove bushes on the islands of the Gulf coast. There is a large rookery in Charlotte Har- bor. The nests are usually made of the green twigs of the mangrove. The eggs are laid in June. At Cape Sable eggs are deposited after the 10th of April; these are from three to five in number, ashy-blue, spotted and blotched irregularly with yel- lowish, reddish and umber-brown of varying shades; two or three in number, and measure about 2.25 by 1.50. [185.] SCARLET IBIS. Guam rubra (Linn.) Geog. Dist.— Eastern coasts of tropical America, north casually to Florida, Louisiana and Texas; southward to the West Indies. An exquisite bird of the richest scarlet plumage. There is probably no well authenticated instance of its having been taken within the United States. Wilson was not correctly informed concerning its abundance in the Southern Scates, and Au' NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 109 dubon only saw a flock of three in Louisiana. The bird is said not to be an uncom- mon visitant to Jamaica and Cuba, and very common on the Island of Trinidad, where it formerly nested. Mr. Warren observed the Scarlet Ibis breeding in im- mense colonies on tiie banks of the Amazon, in dense, impenetrable thickets of bamboo canes, several kinds of thorny cactus and Spanish bayonets, besides numbers of small mangroves and palmettos, all interlaced and tangled with huge vines. In one place every bush and tree had on it from five to twenty nests; tney were about a foot and a half in diameter and perfectly flat; the materials used in their con- struction were twigs, fibrous roots and leaves. Mr. Warren states that the Ibises, being disturbed, rose in immense numbers, and a more striking spectacle than a 185. Scarlet Ibis. large flock of these splendid birds floating through the air, like a crimson cloud, cannot possibly be conceived. The rookeries are only tenanted during the dry season. The eggs are two or three in number, grayish-white in color, marked with spots and blotches of brown of varying shades, and distributed variously over the surface, but generally more profusely at the larger end. The average size is 2.15x1.46. 186. GLOSSY IBIS. Pleyadis (ititiim- valix (Hasselq.) Geog. Dist. — Old World, West Indies, and Eastern United States. This species occurs irregularly in the eastern portions of the United States, and has been known to breed in Florida. It has also been found breeding in Nevada. In Europe the course of its migrations for the summer is said to be chiefly in a line from Lgypt, to Turkey, Hungary and Po- land, and to the southern parts of Russia. In its passage from Africa iC is occasion- ally seen in the Grecian Archipelago, in Sicily, Sardinia, Genoa, Switzerland, l^:ar.co, Holland and Great Britain. The nesting of the Glossy Ibis is like that of the ne.xt species. Ibe eggs are of a deep greenish-blue and average 2.01x1.47. iss. glossy Ibis. 110 NESTS AND EGGS OF 187. WHITE-FACED GLOSSY IBIS. l'k's yuurauna (Linn.) Geog. Dist. — Western United States (Texas, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, California, etc.), south- ward to Mexico, West Indies, Central and South America. This beautiful, lustrous Ibis inhabits southwestern United States and south into tropical America. It is found as far north as Kansas, west through New Mexico and Arizona to California. It is especially abundant in southern Texas, and in some localities along the banks of the Rio Grande swarms by thousands. At this place Dr. James C. Merrill, in company with Mr. G. B. Sennett, on the 16th of May, 1877, visited a large patch of tule reeds, growing in a shallow lagoon about ten miles from Fort Brown, in which large numbers of this Ibis and several kinds of Herons were breeding. The reeds covered an area of perhaps seventy-five acres or less. Be- sides the Ibises, the Great and Little White Egrets, Louisiana and Night Herons, and several other birds were breeding here. The reeds grew about six feet above the surface of the water, and were either beaten down to form a support for the nests, or dead and partly floating stalks of the previous year were used for that pur- pose. Dr. Merrill states that it was impossible to estimate the number of the Ibises and different Herons nesting here. "Both nests and eggs of the Ibises were quite un- like those of any of the Herons, and could be distinguished at a glance. The nests were made of broken bits of dead tules, supported by and attached to broken and up- right stalks of living ones. They were rather well and compactly built, and were usually well cupped, quite unlike the clumsy platforms of the Herons. The eggs were nearly always three in number, and at this date were far advanced in incuba- tion; many of the nests contained young of all sizes. Fifty eggs now before me average 1.95x1.35, the extremes being 2.20x1.49 and 1.73x1.29; they are decidedly pointed at the smaller end, and are of a deep bluish-green color." 188. WOOD IBIS. Tantalus locidator Linn. Geog. Dist. — Southern United States from Ohio Valley, Colorado, Utah, California, etc., south to Buenos Ayres; casually northward to Pennsylvania and New York. The American Wood Stork, as it is called, is distributed over a large portion of South and Central America, Mexico and Southern North America. It is found in all the Gulf States, and is most abundant in Florida, where, Mr. Stuart informs me, it nests in the interioi in dense cypress swamps, on the tallest trees, which are often more than one hundred feet in height. In these rookeries are also found nesting the American Egret, Ardea ajretta; Great Blue Heron, A. lierodias; the Anhinga and others. The nests, like those of the Herons, are platforms of sticks loosely arranged, with a lining of long moss. The same rookery is occupied each year, and the nests are repaired and augmented until they often become of immense size. The eggs are chalky-white, sometimes spotted with pale reddish-brown; somewhat elliptical. The shell is rough, with a flaky substance. Two or three is the number laid, but almost invariably three. Size from 2.70 to 2.75 long by 1.70 to 1.75 broad. [189.] JABIRU. Mycteria americana Linn. Geog. Dist. — Tropical America, north casually to Southern Texas. This singular bird is known as the American Stork. It is found in portions of Central America and throughout most of South America, but occurs rarely farther north. One specimen is said to have been taken within the limits of the United States, and that near Galveston, Texas. The bird is said to have the same genieral habits peculiar to the White Stork of Europe. The nest is a large platform of sticks built in the highest trees. An egg is described by Dr. Brewer as rounded-oval in shape, and of an olive-green color; size 3.33x2.20. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 99 i .•■■•■:■ SSI m , •>';2i^':-t.'^- >S^: C!^--^*/''^"^^'-'-!^ ■ ■•^•■:5.'viu^^^^ "'m ^&iM^^f--'^- ^v-''^^iife^ i >* IH ^'^ji^^f^'-^'^^ ! irai^i 1 1^ 1 172. Nest and Eggs of the Canada Goose. (Photo, by W. Raine.) they were six daj's old, and this was in early morning and evening, at which times the old birds would float off from their island with their well-known honk, the young following single file behind them, feeding at the extreme end of the lake. This was kept up until August, when the young could fly and take care of themselves. The eggs were always seven and never more than eight in number. What is most remarkable about these birds is that they would go south every fall and return every spring; their number always being diminished by the time they returned; some probably being killed by sportsmen. Mr. Vergon says the geese often strayed away from "home" as far as ten and flfteen miles on the Olentangy River and other waters in the neighborhood. He fed them on a high ridge near the lake and on this ridge they were always first seen in spring when they returned. Mr. Vernon says he thinks they always came at night and is very sure they always departed in autumn at night. While the flocks that departed in the fall and returned in the spring had often been diminished in numbers, yet as many as twenty-two new ones came with them and stayed at the lake. Out of thirty that departed the fall of 1886 only three returned in the spring. The birds were very much afraid of strangers, but with Mr. Vergon they were very familiar, allowing him to handle and caress them at pleasure. Dr. Merrill found this species breeding on the Upper Missouri, Yellow- stone, and Big Horn Rivers, where their favorite nesting sites were on the numerous low sandy islands in these rivers, covered in the higher parts with a growth of young willows. Their nests were simply a hollow in the sand, around which was placed a few sticks and twigs, and the eggs lay on a layer of gray down. Nests were found on the tops of broken trunks of trees; one on a rocky ledge three hundred yards from the river; another was made on a pile of brush that had collected in the top of a fallen tree that had floated down and lodged near the middle of the river; some nests 100 NE8T8 AND EGGS OF were placed on the high banks among high grass, or on piles of drift wood. By the first of May the nests contained the full complement of eggs, generally five in number. Dr. Merrill says: "When these geese nest among the branches of a tree I do not think they ever construct the nest entirely themselves, but take possession of a deserted nest of the Fish Hawk, and repar it witii twigs and a lining of down. They have been seen to carry small sticks to the nest for this purpose." The color of the eggs is a pale dull greenish, and their size is about 3.50x2.50. 172a. HUTCHINS'S GOOSE. Brania canadensis hutcMnsii (Sw. & Rich.) Geog. Dist. — North America, breeding in the Arctic regions, migrating south in winter, chiefly through the Western United States and Mississippi Valley; Eastern Asia, This bird, which is like canadensis in color, but of a smaller size, breeds in boreal regions. Its length is about 24 to 34 inches. Its general habits are the same as those of the common Canada Goose. Breeds abundantly along the Yukon River and on the islands on the coast of Alaska. Nests have been found on the Islands of the Anderson River and on the Arctic coast. In these regions eggs of this species have been taken from Hawks' and Crows' nests built in trees. It nests usually on sand- beaches, depositicg from four to six eggs in hollows in which there are more or less leaves, grasses, feathers and down. In his paper on "The Birds of the Western Aleutian Islands," Mr. Dall states that it does not breed east of Amchita Island, but some nest on Amchitka, Kyska and other islands there, '^ts nesting habits, notes, and general mode of life are identical with those of the Cackling Goose. The eggs are white, and measure 3.18x2.10. In the Arctic regions the eggs are laid in June and July. Eggs of this jird taken at the mouth of the Yukon in June measure' 3.02x2.10, 3.08x2.11, 3.04x2.00, 3.00x2.11, 2.90x2.07. There is a great variation in the size of the eggs of this bird and those of minima. 172&. WHITE-CHEEKED GOOSE. Branta canadensis occidcntalis (Baird.) Geog. Dist. — Pacific coast region, from Sitka south, in winter to California. A larger sub-species than Hutchins's Goose, length about 35 inches. Mr. Nelson states that during his residence on the coast of Bering Sea this bird was not seen, as hundreds of the two other related forms were examined both at St. Michael's and at the Yukon mouth it appeared evident that either the White-cheeked Goose proper never reached tlioee localities; if at all, merely as a straggler. Mr. Dall recorus specimens having been taken at Sitka during the Western Union Telegraph expedi- tion. The nesting habits and the eggs are more than likely like those of the Canada Goose. 172r. CACKLING GOOSE. Branta canadnisis jiiinima Ridgw. Geog. Dist. — Coast of Alaska, migrating southward into Western United States east to Wisconsin. The length of the Cackling Goose is about 24 inches. Nelson states that this is the most common and generally distributed goose found breeding along the Alaskan coast of Bering Sea. From the sea shore its breeding ground extends along the courses of the great rivers far into the interior. While descending the Yukon, Dall found their eggs laid upon the bare sand banks, as were those of the White-fronted species. The last week of May finds many of these birds already depositing their ccgs. Upon the grassy borders of ponds, in the midst of a bunch of grass, or on a\ email knoll these birds find a spot where they make a slight depression and line it' v.'ith a scanty layer of grasses, after which the eggs are laid, numbering from five to eight. These eggs, like the birds, average smaller than those of the other geese. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 101 The following measurements, taken from a large series of eggs, show about the average sizes: 3.00x1.90, 2.90x1.90, 2.80x2.00, 2.75x2.00, 2.70x1.92. As the eggs are deposited the female gradually lines the nest with feathers plucked from her breast until they rest in a bed of down. When first laid the eggs are white, but by the time incubation begins all are soiled and dingy. 173. BRANT. Braiitfi hcrnkla (Linn.) Geog. Dist. — Northern portions of the Northern Hemisphere; in North America chiefly on the Atlantic coast, rare in the interior or away from salt water. The Brant Goose is almost cosmopolitan in its distribution. It is found on the sea coasts of Europe and eastern North America, breeding only within the Arctic circle. Hagerup records this bird to be common as a migratory species along the southern shores of Greenland, and says it breeds possibly in the northern part of Danish Greenland. While being more maritime than United States geese generally are, it is also found inland occasionally on lakes and rivers. During the migrations it is abundant, and seeme to prefer the coast to the interior, seldom passing over large tracts of land, following the windings of the shore, and nearly always keeping over water. The Brant is a particular favorite with sportsmen, and many are shot from points of land which project out into the sea. 1 he common Brant Goose is said to breed in immense numbers in Spitzbergen and on the islands about the coast. The nest is constructed on the sandy beaches, of grasses, moss, feathers and down, the birds depositing from four to six eggs. In some parts of Greenland where this species is known to breed, some of the birds make their nests on cliffs. The eggs are grayish or dirty-white, and average in size 2.70 by 1.80, according to Saunders. 174. BLACK BRANT. Braiita nUjricans (Lawr.) Geog. Dist. — Arctic and Western North America; rare in the Atlantic States. The Black Brant is very closely allied to the common Brant Goose; it is found on the Pacific coast, where the latter does not occur. Its summer home is in high latitudes, and in Alaska, the mouth of the Yukon, is said probably to form the ex- treme southern limit of this bird's occurrence in the breeding season. At Point Barrow, according to Murdoch, a few remain to breed in June. The nest is placed in rather marshy ground and is a simple depression lined with down, with which the eggs are completely covered when the birds leave the nest. Breeds in abundance on islands northeast of the mouth of Anderson River, in Liverpool Bay on the Arctic coast, on the shores of Franklin Bay, and on various other parts of the coast, especially in regions west of Anderson River. In these regions, according to Dr. Brewer, nests were founu by Mr. MacFarlane on small islets in fresh water ponds; others on islands in tne Anderson near its mouth; many were made on the shore or on islands in Franklin Bay, and in various parts of the Arctic Sea. Some of the nests were nothing but mere depressions lined with down, while in others the quantity of down was quite large. The number of eggs in a nest v/as generally five; but in one case as many as seven were seen, and, in six or seven instances six. The eggs are grayish-white, and range from 2.75 to 2.90 long by 1.80 to 1.85 broad. [175.] BARNACLE GOOSE. Bnnita Inirdp.^is (Bechst.) Geog. Dist.— North- ern parts of the Old World; casual in Eastern North America. The Barnacle Goose inhabits the northern portions of Europe and is occasion- ally found on the Atlantic coast of North America. But many of the specimens taken on this side of the. Atlantic are birds that are supposed to have escaped from con- 102 NESTS AND EGGS OF finement. In Great Britain it is a winter visitant. During ttie migrations it is said to be found in great numbers along the coast of Norway, and at these seasons it is stated to be abundant in Holland, France and Germany. It is said to occur during the breeding season in Northern Siberia. The shores of the White Sea to the eastward are supposed to be the great breeding places of this bird.* The eggs are grayish-white and measure 3.71x2.38. 176. EMPEROR GOOSE. Philacte camCffica (Sevast.) Geog. Dist.— Coast and islands of Alaska north of the Peninsula; chiefly about Norton Sound and Valley of the Lower Yukon; Commander Islands, Kamtchatka; casually southward to Hum bolt Bay, California. Among the various species of birds more or less peculiar to Alaska, says Mr. Nelson, this goose is perhaps the most noteworthy. This author and naturalist lay camped on a lonely islet in the middle of the Yukon delta for the purpose of gaining some knowledge of the habits of these geese and other water fowl during the last of May and first of June. The birds arrive about those periods. Early in June the 176. Emi'eror Goose. Emperor Goose begins to deposit eggs on the flat, marshy islands bordering the sea. On June 5 a female was found setting upon her eggs on a little knoll, near by a small fragment of bleached driftwood. The nest contained three eggs. They rested in a depression with no sign of a lining. Other nests were found and the birds each time betrayed them by flying off with a startled cry. The majority of the nests con- tained from three to five eggs, the full complement usually ranging from five to eight. The eggs are absolutely indistinguishable from those of the White-fronted Goose, and in form and measurements present a wide range of variation; some are much elongated, while others are slightly pyriform. As usually taken from the nests they are of a dirty brownish-white, but when fresh are nearly pure white. As the com- plement of eggs approaches completion the parent makes a bed of leaves, fine grass and feathers plucked from her own breast. The eggs vary in size from 3.28x2.22 to 3.03x2.00. * Yarrell, III, p. 74. THE OOLOGIST 61 that so-called river, the Hillsborough, which with the Halifax and Indiau x'ivers, all long, narrow lagoons of salt water forming a peculiar coast line for nearly three hundred miles along the Atlantic seaboard in this sub-tropical region. We had all done some collecting both the season mentioned and in previous years, and naturally when we consult- ed we decided to join and try our joint forces in this, to us, comparatively newer field. Now it is a fact that col- lecting in any form costs money when you are away from home, and I can say in all sincei'ity that southern col- lecting is the most expensive of all, for the residents of that region are on a warm trail after the coin of the winter tourists. Well! passing over preliminaries, with the dickering and delays— we at last started on our trip in a sloop-rig- ged craft manned by a crew of two col- ored boys, or plain ruggers as they are invariably called south of the Mason and Dixon line. The little cabin was nearly eight feet wide and over eleven feet long and four and a half high. The table was with drop leaves, and on the center-boax'd, with a berth on each side, while lockers and space forward gave room for most of our baggage. One of us slept on the floor, and the crew bunked in the cockpit protected by a tarpaulin. Tha weather was perfect, and after victualing our craft with eggs at 35 cents a dozen and canned goods: and everything else in proportion, we start- ed out with intentions of a week's trip on Hillsboro, Halifax and through the Haulover to Indian river, with the Thousand Islands as a center of opera- tions. Our yacht only drew seven in- ches and we could run her anywhere, and the darkeys were excellent as workers and good natured to a fault if well fed and properly praised. A full account of this trip would take fifty pages; so I will only give a short account of our work and takes, with- out entering into details or describing date and locality. Our tirst stop after running onto a shoal in a wide but shallow channel was to anchor along- side of a low island literally covered with herons. It was difficult to keep the boys and crew from shooting ten times more than we had use for, but I had previous experience and headed them off. As it was, skinnina; was in order until midnight in our crowded quarters and then not one-thiid of the supply of three species of Herons was in shape. Next morning we made a raid on the nests and during the day we secured at that place and two other heronies over 300 eggs and could have taken 500 more. In only a very few instances were posi- tive identifications secured, and I would give but very little for the entire lot for my own private collection. This is the usual manner of collecting, and as the nests are massed together and sev- eral species of Herons breeding in one tree or group, it is next to impossible to secure perfect identification. If ac- cnrate notes were taken and the parent bird secux'ed, the time consumed would make the prices much higher than they are at present for Herons' eggs. During the trip we secured a few sets of accurately identified Louisiana, Snowy, Little Blue and Great Blue Herons. We felt confident that some of our eggs were those of the White and Yellow-crowned Night Herons a& the birds were shot, but they were not good enough for an honorable collector to offer in exchange. Let me tell of the condition of one of these heronies whether in cypress swamps around fresh water or in srubs or mangroves about salt water. I have seen hun- dreds af nests in one group in a space not over ar acre in extent. As many as fifty nests are seen in one tree. In most cases the nests are built low and I 62 THE OOLOGIST have often looked into the nests of the Louisiana and Little Blue Herons built in the low mangroves from the steamer deck as we passed near the shore. Often as many as three species of Herons are found nesting in one group, sometimes five species will be found occupying a space of an acre or less and generally two kinds and in the tan- gle it is very difficult to secure the-par- «nt bird as the Herons leave the spot and give but litcle opportunity to shoot them near the nest. Many nests were not above twelve feet while some were not over six or seven feet up. The average of the lot of Heron's nests seen on the trip was not above twenty feet. The greatest elevation was in the case of the Great Blue Heron a few of which were over fifty feet up, but many of them were at only ten or fifteen. Of course an attempt was made to secure only good fresh sets, but the eggs were often mixed and the waste was large in the preparation. The Great Blue Heron nearly always lays three or four, more often three in Flor- ida, as my notes show, while at the north this species lays five and six and occasionally seven. The Snowy, Lou- isiana and Little Blue Herons varied from three to five and one nest con- tained seven eggs but from color and shape two hens had evidently laid in one nest. We took all sorts of trips on shore away from the boat and secured many of the smaller birds but few of their eggs. We changed our location daily and often several times a day and fish- ed, fiddled and fussed to our hearts' content. One of the boys had a violin and one of the darkies a banjo and we all sang (yelled). It was not a rare thing to go bounding over the lagoons or rivers, while one or two would be skinning birds in the cabin or blowing eggs, another trolling for southern weak-fish or channel bass, someone picking on the banjo and the whole lot grinding pretty fair musie with the aid of the colored crew who sang well. It was really essential to catch fish to supply the craft and as it was we had to run back for more supplies in four days although we thought we had enough to last a week when we started. Eat! Did you say'? There was never anything like it, and I defy anyone to cite a parallel instance. When we pulled into port we made extra provis- ion also for the care of specimens, as the confined quarters made it rather close .work to cook meals and skin birds, etc., in one little cabin and there was not room to house the specimens, especially the skins. Then one of the boys was a conchologist and collected hundreds of shells. So we added a lot of u y goods boxes which we placed on deck. But things were just as clut- tered up inside of two days as ever. It was not a fashionable quarter you may be sure, but we kept the oiigs scrubbing and things in fair shape and as long as the arsenic did not get in the pancake batter it was O. K., no matter if some little alligators and a lot of hermit crabs wei-e crawling about the tioor and we were a dirty crowd. We were in perfect health and spirits and en- joyed life and the outing amazingly. When at last, after eleven days of vagabondizing we returned to partial civilization we had secured over 200 skins and nearly 3,000 eggs. We had noted 86 spectes of bix'ds and found 32 species nesting. I took very few of the eggs as my share as they were mostly unaccompanied with proper data. In conclusion I wish to say a word in regard to this form of collecting. It is to be deplored that more attention is not given to careful notes and less at- tention to the greedy gathering of spec- imens. Many coltectors look to the amassing of a collection rather than to the true-blue worth of the studious and thoughtful ornithologist. THE OOLOGIST. 63 Am sorry there is not space to de- scribe the trip and specimens more elaborately, but it is not compatible, so I have given this form of description to our little trip feeling that many will be intei'ested in a yacht trip for specimens in Florida. Picus. An Imitation that Imitates. THE REDSTART READILY STARTLED. [Patent applied for. All rights reserved.] One of the things which an ornithol- ogist often desires to do and which proves as difficult as anything he may attempt, is to reproduce, with any de- gree of similarity at all to the original sounds, the songs of our feathered friends. Nothing puzzles ornithologi- cal writers more than to coin such wordings and phrasings and arrange such intonations and accentatious as shall serve to represent and describe somewhere neai'ly, the songs of the birds they may be treating. It is difficult busiires.s as all will agree but the writer desires to state that in so far as the song of the American Red- start {Setophoga r^iticilla) is concerned, he has secured a corner on the market and is prepared to furnish on short no- tice, Redstart songs of his own manu- facture at so much per song. Said manufactured Redstart songs are guar- anteed to be as good as theioriginal and in no wise distinguishable from the real thing; in fact I may add that so perfect is- my reproduction that I have actually deceived, many times, the Redstarts themselves. While, as I say, this invention of mine is patented and all I'ights to it are vested m myself only, the editor of the Oo.MOGiST has finally, after much nego- tiating, prevailed upon me to lease to him (at an exorbitant price) the right to tell "the boys" about it through his paper. So listen! Take two of the small roofing tins commonly used by roofers in attaching felt or paper rooting. Place them with their concave surfaces together and putting them thus in your mouth between-your teeth and lips, tin- whistle fashion, blow through the cen- tral hole alternately with an inhaling and'exhaling breath, beginning with an inhaling whistle and ending with an ex- halation,—four of each. Blow gently, not loud-ly. This I have found to be a I'emarkably exact imitation of the Redstart's song, so much so that on a recent occasion, by repeating it at intervals, I led a fe- male Redstart clear through a sizable piece of woodland, she answering all the time; and then returning, I made her follow me all the way back through the woods again. Try it. If you are not convinced and if you do not find it an entirely correct representation of the song, your money will be refunded. Neil F. Posson, Medina, N. Y. Two-storied Nest of Phcebe. May 6, 1888, I found a nest of Phoibe under the ovei'hanging bank of a creek, which contained three eggs of the Phoebe and two of Cowbird. I took the Cowbirds and left the others. May 13 while passing by the nest in my boat I noticed the Phoibe fly to the nest. I went to it, put my hand in and it appeared to be empty but I felt something break and on removing the lining I found the three Phoebe's eggs broken. They had been entirely cov- ered over. 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Nesting of the American Dipper. The Dipper, or as the Mexicans call it, " GallinUa tie la agua''' literally "little chicken of the water" is one of the com- monest birds of Northern New Mexico, from 6,000 feet up to timber line, breed- ing most commonly at 7,000 feet. Here at Porvenir, at an altitude of 7,400, in the midst of thick pine forests and mountain streams is an ideal place for the Dippers, a pair of which can be found every quarter of a mile. When I tirst came out here in February the- Dipper could be seen at every open place along the streams, but as soon as the ice had all 'broken up, by the first of March, the birds began to pair oS and commence looking out for suitable nesting sites. On April 13th I found my first nest, only a few pieces of raud and moss on a ledge of rock, three feet over a regular torrent rushing around the corner of a huge boulder. The old nest was about twenty feet to the left of the new one much higher up. On the 14th the foundation was completed and the walls and roof were entirely finished on the night ot the 17th. The 18th the lining was begun and not finished until the 23rd, when nothing was done to the nest until the first egg was laid on the 29th. When at work on the nest the male always kept watch, the female fiying about a hundred feet for ma- terial. I never saw the male assist in any way whatever. On the morning of May 3rd I collected the set of five eggs and nest, the birds being nowhere in sight. The nest was composed of mud and moss, lined with dry pine needles, grass, and the eggs resting on a bed of dry oak leaves. The nest measures 18 inches long, 9 high and six and a half in width, the roof being over an inch in thickness. In the afternoon of the 3rd while walking further up the canon I found another nest almost inaccessible, being 9 feet over the water on a ledge. The stream was about 12 feet wide and six deep and a huge rock rose seven feet out of the water right opposite the nest, and about nine feet from it. I felled a pine tree near by and rested one end on the boulder and the other on the ledge, a few inches from the nest, and by careful balancing secured the set of five all right. Both sets were perfectly fresh, and measured as fol- lows. Set L .97X.68. .97x.69, .98x.70, .96X.68. .96X.68. Set 11. l.OOx.74, l.OOx- .71, 1.02X.76. l.OOx.75, .98x70. Walton 1. Mitchell, Porvenir, New Mexico. The OoLOGiST. VOL. XV. NO. 8-10. ALBION, N. Y., AUG. OCT., 1898. Whole No. 147 Bachman's Sparrow. {Peucoea cestivalis bachmanii.) Several years ago I was asked by a bright looking little negro about eleven years of age, "What little bird is it that can't fly good but runs along on the ground like a rat; and makes its nest in a bunch of sage, laying four little white eggs." Being very much puz- zled and at the same time astonished to be told that a bird having wings could not fly but only used them to flutter and tumble along the ground with, I began to question him about this phen- omenon of a bird, and brought out the fact that it resembled very closely a Field Sparrow, also that when he chased it for some distance it would fly several yards, then run again but he still thought that it couldn't fly good. After- wards he told me that he knew whore a nest with four eggs was, so I immedia- tely set out with him to find the place. I was naturally very anxious to se- cure the set and find out something concerning this peculiar bird as I had never before heard of one acting as he told me this one had done, but am afraid then that I was after the eggs just because they would be a new set to add to my collection. This seems to be the impression with too many of our coUectoi's of the present day. .^Soon we came to a field which was covered with sage, a few pines and thickets were scattered throughout it, a very suitable place for this species; here the boy said the nest was situated. We had not gone very far when he stopped and pointed to a tussock of gi'ass and said that the nest was under it on the other side. So I very cautiously went around and sure enough there was a little nest of wii-y grass placed under the tussock. Slowly advancing I managed to see a little bird on the nest which resembled very closely a common Field Sparrow. I got within a few feet of her before she slipped ofif the nest and ran along through the grass for nearly one hundred feet then she hopped up on a low limb of a tree and uttered a chirp very similar to a Field or Chipping Sparrow. In a few minutes her mate appeared and they kept chirping continually as long as I was there . When I took up the nest I found that a slight hollow had been scratched out by the birds, into this they had put pieces of coarse grass; then as a lining which was very thick, fine grass tops were used. On the whole it was put together rath er substantially and was roofed over or domed, the entrance of which was about two or three inches from the ground, being nearly two and one-half inches in diameter. Capt. Charles E. Bendire very ably describes its nests and I think that a much better idea can be gotten con- cerning them by reading what he says than any description that I can offer, so I will quote it in full, as follows: "All the nests of this bird vary totally in structure from those of the other species of the genus Peuccea, as far as known to me. They are all distinctly roofed-over or domed, a feature only found in the nest of a closely allied species, Embernagra rufivirgata, the Texas Sparrow, which constructs a somewhat similar nest. They are cy- lindrical in shape, about seven or eight inches long by three inches in height and four and one-half inches wide. The inner cavity it from three to four 66 I H.K t'OHMflSI . CALIFORNIA VULTURE. Pseudographus colifornianus. THK UOLOGIST 67 inches in length, about two inches wide and one and three-quarters inch high. The rear wall of the nest is about one and three-quarters inches thick, the sides about an inch, and the roof a. lit- tle over half an inch in thickness. These measurements xavy somewhat in different specimens. The nests are all constructed out of dry grasses exclus- ively, and are lined with fine grass tops only. Some are much more artistically and compactly built than others, the roof projects somewhat over the en- trance in all cases." So far I have neglected to say much about the contents of this nest. It con- tained lour eggs, of a dead white color. [ knew the eggs must be of a kind of Sparrow but what species I could not positively tell. Took nest and eggs and started back home but as luck would have it, when I was going through a strip of woods a twig turned the nest over and out rolled two of my beauties, one smashed up while the other fell in some grass and was saved. I reached home with the thi'ee others which measured as follows: 77 bv 60, 79 by 5!) and 78 by 57. Searched through Davie's 'Nests and Eggs of North America Birds" and came to the conclusion that I had found a nest of Bachman's SpaiTow which he said came as far north as North Cai'olina but to be certain 1 sent one of the eggs to the editor of Oologist, receiving a reply that it was certainly this species that I had foand. I am now going to tell as best I can, what I have learned of this bird since then although I have never had an op- portunity of watching a pair very close- ly as I have not found a nest near home. Whether they remain with us the whole year I am at present unable to say. During the summer it seems to be a common breeder in certain loc- alities but they are very hard birds to locate and their nests being so difficult to find have not had very good luck in collecting their eggs. Only five nests have come under my observation though I know of others having been found but was not able to secure the eggs. The only^ nest that I found myself was accidentally. A friend and myself were walking through a sage field which was covered with old field pines and when nearing the edge about ten yards from a cultivated field a Bach- man's Sparrow started from under my feet, fluttering and tumbling along the ground, as though its wing was broken, uttering a slight chirping sound, seem- ing all the time to be in great distress, My first inclination was to give chase and catch the wounded bird but I had been fooled before, so we began look- ing for the nest. We searched for over five minutes in vain and were about disgusted with her when my friend saw a small hole in one side of a tussock of sage, and he said to me that he thought he had found her nest. We carefully pushed away the grass and to our delight found that it con- tained four eggs. I knew that they were badly incubated but being such a rare find we took them. The next day when an attempt was made to blow our eggs, our delight was turned to disgust when the drill smashed through the shell of the first, as though it were tis- sue paper. Though we felt pretty bad about not being able to save the eggs and also to have deprived the mother of the four little chicks which she would have inevitably had the next day. It was a good find anyhow for the nest was roofed over more than any I have ever seen; the eggs not being visible until we had partly removed the roof. A large amount of coarse grass was used in the construction of the nest, being lined with fine wiry grass. The entrance was not over half an inch from the ground. The date of the finding of this nest was May 12, 1894. Later in the summer along about the THE OOLOGIST. tenth of June, a little boy said to me that he knew of a nest of a little ground sparrow which contained three white aggs, so I told him to wait until the four were deposited then I would go with him to the nest. On the fifteenth I looked up the boy and he started out with me; bringing along a dog which had helped find the nest. On entering a sage field, the dog, which had gone ahead, flushed the bird and seemed to enjoy chasing her around; for the foolish bird (foolish I may say in one sense but in another exceedingly wise) kept flying around sometimes almost touching the ground until pretty well tired out when she alighted in the top of a small pine to see what would become of her eggs. All the time chirping very loudly. There were four slightly incubated eggs in the nest and the sun shining as it was upon them gave to them a beau- tiful pinkish appearance, bringing viv- idly to my mind the scenes surrounding the taking of my first set of the Flicker which showed the yolk through the translucent shell, beautifying them so much. It seemed very strange that the bird should have selected such an open place, in which to build her nest when all around was thicker sage. With the exception of the tussock within which the nest was placed, there was not a bush or much grass nearer than six or eight feet. It might have been that she could find it easier more probable though because an enemy could be seen very much sooner. The materials used in building the nest were wholly of fine grasses. It was very slightly domed and was a rather frail structure when placed ' be- side my other nests of this species. A hollow of about an inch deep was scratched out by the birds for the nest. The next nest I examined was placed in a graveyard, only a few feet from a walk. When we came in. the female, which was on, allowed us to come with- in a few feet before leaving and this time only ran a few yards before taking flight. Four fresh eggs were what the nest contained. A few week's later another nest was found within ten feet of a sidewalk. over which several hundred people passed daily. It was on the campus of Guilford College, N. C, between the atheletic fields and one of the dormit- ories; hence the birds must hsve been disturbed very much by the boys run- ning across the field, sometimes almost stepping on it. The Young Men's Christian Association Hall was within ten yards also, which was undergoing repairs at this time, so 1 think that the birds must have had quite a noisy place in which to live; yet, they built their nest and deposited the eggs which would have hatched in a few days if one of the boys had not -disturbed it. Both of the last two described nests were found in May. The first [time I ever saw a young bird was one morning when I was going through a pea patch, a sage field bord- ering this, in which a pair had succeed- ed in raising a brood. My dog had gone ahead and suddenly a little bird that could hardly fly, flew up (uttei'ing a sound something like chee c/iee), which passed me; the mother was right after it and as soon as the little fellow came to the ground, she quick as a flash dart- ed down to the same place, soon with wings spread and dangling legs she arose flying a few feet then ran along as if wounded or in great distress, only to rise again keeping this up for several yards. I at once began chasing her, thinking all the time I was after the young bird and had gone quite a dis- tance before finding out my mistake. Upon discovering that I had been de- ceived, I hurriedly went back to where the bird had stopped and found him snugly hid among the peas. He allow- ed me to almost touch him before tak- THE OOLOGIST 69 ing flight but as he could not go very far, T easily made him a prisoner. I hoped very much that I could raise him but he died in two or three days, al- though I fed him butterflies, worms and common house flies. He was exceed- ingly noisy, mostly I think on account of the lack of his mother's tender care; for every two or three minutes during the day he would give forth an utter- ance which sounded something like chee, chee, chee, (the same as when I flushed him though faster and some- what louder) continuing until he had said it eight or nine times. A pair of English Sparrows which had had a nest of young near by came to the cage and brought food to the young bird several times. I secured two others later on but they died also. Most writers give four as the number of eggs deposited by this species, while this is the number generally laid by them, five are sometimes found. I was for a time of the opinion that sets of three would probably be taken late in the season but Irom my observations this year I find that sets of three are as common at the first of the season as sets of four. The earliest nest I have ever taken was in the first week of May, while a nest with three eggs was found on July 16th incubation far advanced; and on August 3d, took two young from a nest in a clover field, on hillside. From this it stands to reason that two or thi'ee broods are reared in one season. I know of only one article ttiat has been published in your excellent jour- nal on this species, and that was in The Young Oulogist for October, 1884. Let us hear more on this inter- esting and peculiar bird. H. Gould Welbokn, Lexington, N. C. The Oologist. A Monthly Publication Devoted to OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. Correspondence and Items of Interest to the student of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited from all. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single subscription 50c per annum Sample copies 5c each The above rates include payment of postage. Each subscriber Is given a card good for a Want, Exchange or For Sale Notice. (This card is redeemable at any time within one year from date thereon.) Subscriptions can begin with any number. Back numbers of the Oologist can be furnished at reasonable rates. Send stamp for descrip- tions and prices. ll^"Remember that the publisher must be noil- fled by letter when a subscriber vTlshes his paper stopped, and all arrearages must be paid. ADVERTISING RATES : 5 cents per nonpareil line each Insertion. 12 lines in every Inch. Seven Inches in a col- umn, and two columns to the page. Nothing Inserted for less than 23 cents. No "special rates," 5 cents per line is "net," "rock bottom," "Inside," "spot cash" rate from which there is no deviation and no commission to agents. If you wish to use 5 lines or less space It will cost you 25 cents; 100 lines, $5.00; 1000 lines, $50.00. "Trade" (other than cash) advertise- ments will be accepted by special arrangement only and at rates from double to Ave times cash rates. Due Bills and Cards payable in advertis- ing will be honored only at regular rates In force at the date of Issuance of said bill or card. Remittances should be made by Draft, Express or Postofflce Money Order, Registered Letter or Postal Note. Unused U. S . Postage Stamps of any denomination wiU be accepted for sums un- der one dallar. Make Money Orders and Drafts payable and address all subscriptions and com- munications to FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. WTEREO *T THE POST OFFICE AT ALBION, N. Y., AS 8EC0N>CLAS9 MATTER, The Homed Lark in Western New York. {Otocoris alpestris.) The article in the May Oologist by Mr. B. S. Bowdish regarding the status of the Horned Lark [0. alpesiris) and the Prairie Horned Lark {0. a. pralicola) in Western New York, was read with much interest by myself, and ever since then I have been trying to find time to send the 0<")LOGISt a note 70 THE OOLOGIST •on the subject from my own \;7"ffirward pen. This seems to be the first *>ppor- tunity I have found for doing so, Mr. Bowdish states that his research- es of eight years hare failed t) tia(f for him any occurrences of the true tforn- ^d Lark (alpestris), and his artiale seems to tend towards pliminating the bird from our Western New York ari- fauna. Personally, I have not had the- opportunity to determine what propor- tion of our Larks are nlpestria, ioas- "much as I have been away from home almost continually duriua; the past five years: but that the true Horned Lark {Olocoris alpestris) does occur in West- ern New York is conclusively evidenc- ed by the facts which I here append. 1 have in my possession an interest- ing letter from my friend, the eminent ornithologist, Mr. J. L. Davison of Lockport, N. Y., written under date of Jan. 20, 1891, in which he informs us that on the 13th of April, 1889, he sent two specimens of Otocoris (taken near Lockport) to the American Museum of Natural History at New York and two specimens to Dr. A. K. Fisher of Washington. Of the two sent to the New York Museum and ex- amined by Dr. Jonathan D wight, Jr., one proved to be alpestris and the oth- er 2^raticola. In The Auk for April, 1890, is an exhaustive article on "The Horned Larks of North America'' by Dr. Dwight, and in this article mention is made of the Lockport specimen of alpestris. The Lockport specimen hav- ing been taken on the 13th of April it would appear that alpestris overlaps praticola and remains with us after praticola has commenced breeding. Further, there are in a private col- lection connected with the collection of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, several specimens which I consider and which, indeed, are considered by the owner and other ornithologists con- nected with the Society as referable to the true Horned Lark, O. alpestris The opinion I have held for \.h^ past eight years eoncerning tke status of the Horned Larks in the lake coun- ties of Western New York remains un- changed, and may be bvietiy stated as follows: 474. Otocoris alpestris (Linn.) Horned Lark. Winter resident, not common, arriving from the North in December or earlier and lingering until into April. 474b. Otocoris alpestris- praticola. (Hensh.) Prairie Horned Lark. Com- mon summer resident. Breeds Ar- rives about February 1st or sometimes a few days earlier and departs in No- vember, thus being nearly continual. Sometimes individuals or small flocks may spend the entire wiuter with us. Should the facts and theories herein related prove of interest to any of the 0<)L0Gist's readers it will be a source of satisfaction to Neil F. Posson, Medina, N. Y. Cuckoo and Other Notes. The American Cuckoos exhibit many peculiarities, but I have lately noticed two circumstances that are new to me though I have collected their eggs for 11 years, examining hundreds of nests. We have both the Yellow-billed and Black-billed species in Westei'n New York, the latter much more common. On the 28th of May this year I flushed a Black-billed Cuckoo from her nest in the usual situation, a thick bush in a second growth tract. The nest then contained one egg, evidently fresh as indicated by the bright color and clean- ness of the shell. On returning to the nest one week later, June 4th, I found four eggs, I thought this strange as two eggs is the usual complement of the Black-bill with us and over three I had never found. Imagine my surprise on i-eaching home to find three eggs on the point of THE OOLOGIST. 71 hatching and one egg almost fresh. Now the question arises, did she bring those three hatched eggs from another nest of hers, or did she steal them from one or more of her kind? In either case, how did she get the ejjg'? to the nest, for she certainly never In-ought them to the hatching point in seven days allowing her a day to lay each egg- Now for my second discovery, on the 11th of June I foand a tj'pical nest of the Black-billed Cuckoo; they build nearer the ground than the Yellow- bill, containing two eggs of Black-bill and one of Yellow-bill. The eggs ex- hibit all the characteristics of typical eggs of the two species as to color and size. Now did the Yellow-bill lay in the others nest or did Mrs. Black-bill take to theiving. The eggs were not incubated and probably deserted as they were sinking somewhat into the nest. Adding these facts to the Yellow- bills habit of laying her eggs at inter- vals of about three days, sitting con- tinuously and often having fresh eggs and young birds in the same nest, and the habit of sitting on the nest for days before any eggs are laid, which peculi- arity seems to belong to both birds, with the parasitic habits of the Euro- pean bird and 1 think they may safely be called one of the odd birds. I note Mr. Low's article in a recent OoLOGiST, confirming my suspicions in regard to the Short-eared Owl, thus adding another breeder to the list. In regard to Mr. Posson's statements about the Horned Lark, I would say that I shot one in company with Long- spui's a short time before moving into Orleans County, but have never seen one since to my knowledge here. All taken by me in Orleans County have been of the Prairie variety. I have in my possession an incom- plete set of Mourning Warbler taken June 13th in same locality as set of five taken last year. They are of an en- tirely distinct type of coloration, blotches being larger and entirely in a wreath, closely resembling some sets of Black-and-White Warbler but slightly smaller. They are a tritle larger than the live eggs taken last year. Unfortu- nately there were only two eggs and the collector did not leave them for a complete set. Ekxest H. Short, Orleans County, N. Y. Purple Grackle. The first Grackle colony I ever visit- ed was about twenty miles from New York City in Bergen Co , New Jersey. It was in some spruce and pine trees surrounding a farm house. On May 16, 1893, I made my first visit. The place was full of nests, but only one in each tree-, and that was placed in the top. Most of the nests contained young, some had four, others five and there were two with six. I saw four sets of eggs, two of four, one of five and one of six. I visited it again April 28, 1894. This year I was a little early but found two sets of four and two of five. The way they build is this: First they get a lot of rags, straw, paper, etc. (In one nest there was a rag about three inches wide and three feet long.) This is collected for the found- ation and is placed on one of the branches and against the central main branch near the top, often the very top. This is in the spruce trees, but in the pines they build out on the branch es, or they often use last year's nest for the foundation. After they get a firm foundation they cover it with horse-manure and mud and on this they build an almost perfectly round nest of grass and mud, lining it with plenty of fine grass, also a few horse- hairs. The nests measure inside ^\ inches in diameter and 4i inches in depth, so the 72 THE OOLOGIST. eggs could hardly roll out even in a high wind. The eggs four to six in number vary in size, color and mark- ings. In some the ground color is light greenish-white and others it is rusty- brown. [Sometimes there are a great many markings which almost obscure the ground color and often there are very few markings. The eggs are usually pale blue, blotched, spotted and lined with brown and umber in a circle around the large end. The average size is about 1.18x.84. J. C. M. E. The Slate-colored Junco in Western New York in Summer. Editor Oologist; On the afternoon of August 25th just past, flitting about through some un- derbrush near the ponderous rocks at the famous Rock City, near Olean, N. Y., I observed some three or four Slate- colored Juncos [Junco hyemalis), both males and females being in the group. I was first attracted to them by hearing their familiar twitter, and after expend- ing considerable time, patience and si- lence, 1 was rewarded by having two individuals come out from the brush into full view, alighting only a few feet from me. I relate this incident, not because it is anything new, for the Junco is re- ported as breeding in Cattaraugus county, but because it was so new to me to see the bird in midsummer, and then besides, I thought the note might tend to corroborate the fact that Junco hyemalis is a summer resident in some parts of Southern New York, if indeed any corroboration is necessary. I am also reminded that nine years ago, back in 1889, the last week in July, in the days of high weeels, while taking a bi- cycle tour through southwestern New York a Slate-colored Junco flitted across the I'oad in front of my wheel as I was spinning along in the vicinity of Beaver Lake, Cattaraugus county. Dismounting, I chased the little fel- low over through a grove on the right of the road until I made my identiflfca- tion complete. At that time, nine years ago, I was greatly surprised to find the Junco here in midsummer — it was a new discovery for me, but I pre- sume to say that its occurrence as a summer resident in Cattaraugus coun- ty is not now considered unusual. Neil F. Posson, Medina, N. Y. We are requested by Mr. Edward S. Schmid, 712 Twelfth Street, N. W.. Washington, D. C, to announce that he will give absolutely free to all readers of the OoLOGiST who wish it a copy of his large illustrated catalogue of his Birds, Poulti'y, Dogs and Taxidermy. This oft'er only holds good until the 15th of December. Mr. Schmid's catalogue is conceded to be the finest one of its kind ever issued. It has 106 pages, ov- er 200 illustrations, and is handsomely bound in blue-tinted cover. It is valua- ble reference book and is fully worth twenty-five cents to any one interested. You can get it free if you will write him as above. We would like to see every reader of the Oologist have a copy of this book. Many Subscriptions to THE OOLOGIST have expired, or will expire with this issue. In the future the Publisher re- quires CASH IN ADVANCE. Hence, if you are one of the delinquent sub- scribers, your subscription should be forwarded by return mail, if you wish the Oologist continued to your address. CRANKLIN i,7^v^f^^ MICH. Kates, »1.50 to $2.00 per Day. Only one block from "Woodward and Jefferson Aves, Elevator Service, Steam Heat, Electric I^ights, Tile Floors, Etc H. H. JAMES & SON, Prop'rs. ' r HOUSE The Oologist. VOL. XV. NO. n. ALBION, N. Y., NOV., 1898 Whole No. 148 A Day in a Swamp. Not twenty miles from the State House at Boston, is a long belt of rich swamp land. A narrow river winds its crooked bed throughout the entire length and combined with the numer- ous tributary streams, probably forms the basis of the swamp. The growth is varied. Along the banks clusters of dark green pickerel weeds flourish with perhaps a bright cow lily blooming near. Tall grass and bull rushes fringe the edge of the ri\'er, the rushes grow- ing in well defined tracts. The short quill grass is found in another place and serrated triangular grass in others. These growths ai'e strangely pro- nounced, although the general con- ditions appear to be similar. For ex- ample, at one part of the marsh I may find the triangular grass with the pur- ple swamp Geum blooming profusely among it. In another an entirely dif- ferent form takes the place of both grass and geum. This is characteristic of the entire swamp. Dividing the marsh into two portions is an active railway, the river taking its course on the left. Bordering the dry land are woods of oak, maple and cedar, alder and willow growths, fields and cow pastures. A few island like gi'oves of cedar are present on the right side of the place. During the time in- tervening from August till April the marshes are quite frequently visited by gunners after rail, snipe, muskrats, etc., but happily the breeding period of the birds finds them seldom intruded upon, unless by collectors after speci- mens in various branches of natural science. On the 11th of June 1898, I visited the above locality in compan3' with a very desirable friend, after a few eggs of the Long-billed Marsh Wren, and orni- thological recreation in general. We procured a small gunning skiff and started uff. The day was cloudy and at times decidedly threatening but no drops of rain disturbed the surface of the stream throughout the day. This, however, mattered little to us- we were wet as possible when our landing was reached toward dusk. The air was full of the delightful sounds of nature and our spirits were at their best. What new unexpected glimpses of life might not gladden our eyes before ihe day was past! It is perhaps these fine surprises which con- stitute much of the charm of a trip like ours. Birds were all about us. Red- wings rose from the dark green grass, Bitterns boomed at regular intervals throughout the day. Swamp Sparrows trilled gaily from the dry grass patches and the twitterings '^f countless Tree Swallows circling about tended to pro- duce a beautiful medley. Even the air was more than ordinarily fresh and the shrill pipings of the little Hylodes were the loudest of ail. We found the vivacious Marsh Wrens very abundant along the river side and succeeded in finding plenty of nests, only one of which held eggs. The Wrens were chuckling and chattering even while we secured this and were at it when we left. At every bend in the river we landed and splashed about through the dense grass, and at one point while thus en- gaged I ran right upon a Virginia Rail which was carefully guarding six eggs. The bird left and splashed out of sight as I bent down toward her and re- mained so until I had left, once making a loud croaking sound. Three eggs •74 THE OOLOGISI, were sterile, the others badly incubated. The nest was a small irregular plat- form of broad grass blades, placed close to the water in a large coarse bunch of -grass. The river was a few rods dis- tant. Just above here the river makes a wide curve and passes for a half mile along the railroad bank. As we round- ed the curve a Least Bittern rose silent- ly from a patch of rushes and a female followed. Investigation showed a nest about ready for eggs, constructed of fresh blades of the rushes woven to- gether. The nest was subsequently deserted as was proved a week later. I wished to secure a few pitcher plants which bloomed on the opposite side so we landed and were soon waist deep in fthe delightful warm mud and water of the right swamp. Here tufts of swamp azalia in bloom were making the air still sweeter. Bees were humming in abundance about the crimson petals of •the pitcher blossoms. I was crossing a ditch when a Sora took flight from the sparse grass not ten feet away. Nest- ling down in a scant bunch of pale green grass was a well shaped nest literally full of eggs. There were four- teen, the eggs being piled one upon the other. Their condition varied from fresh to quite badly incubated, and mixed m at the very bottom were some of the most recent laid eggs with well incubated ones beside them. After the >first splashing as the bird left I saw her /no more. I was returning to the boat with my arms full of plants. My friend was just ■behind. In front a small circle of six cedar trees not three feet tall grew. Just as I was passing this a jii ■ lU splash was heard and a mallard > nek {Anas ■boschas) darted off like a rocket. Now in this vicinity the mallard is rare even in imagination, so j lost no time in ex- amining those cedars. The sight was well worth any amount of trouble in :getting there. Nine eggs were grouped in a nest sunk between the stems of the cedars. The nest was a well shaped mass of damp and decaying weeds, marsh grass and a very little green cedar. A few breast feathers flecked the rim. The eggs were very badly in- cubated, almost on the verge of hatch- ing and were preserved only by using repeated injections of 20 per cent, solu- tion of caustic potash. The tough membranes prevented serious injury to the shell. The eggs were discolored to dark dirty green which was well worked into the shell and the nest smelt rankly. The bowl of tho nest was four inches above water and an equal number of inches in depth. The outside diameter measured 20i inches and the inside 10. Before taking the set we retired for at least half an hour. By that time the eggs had cooled and the bird was still away. When visited a week later the empty nest wa^ as we left it. Owing to its loose composition and disagree- able odor I could not collect it. The average egg of this set measures 2.26x 1.70 inches, and when cleaned is of a clear brownish color. I have but twice before recorded a mallard in my dis- trict, the last time being in March 1898, when a pair male and female, were seen in a marsh four miles from this one. Frank J. Birtwell, Dorchester, Mass. The Effect of Storms on Birds. I will give some incidents that have come under my notice in the last few years, along the line of which I am try- ing to describe. In the very cold win- ters of '93 and '94 many birds perished of hunger and cold. It was no more than usual to find dead birds lying around on the ground. Among those who suffered most were the Bluebird and the Mourning Dove. This change was noticed by all, not THE OOLOGIST. 75 only by ornithologists but by all-, every man had something to say about the scarcity of Bluebirds in particular. It was mentiori,ed in newspa^ ers as well as in scientific ones. The absence of the Doves was not so marked as that of the Bluebirds, on oc- count of their not being so numerous when the cold began, but the student of nature was not long to discover that they were almost entirely wanting in some sections where they once were numerous. Their gentle cooing was not heard by the roadside as it had been in former years. The cold had entirely swept them from the places where they were once plentiful, not numerous, but could be heard by the roadside and on the edges of the tields. They have become frequent in some places since the time I am talking of. Another of our birds that suffered greatly was the Bobwhite. Covies of those innocent little birds would all huddle together to get warm, and some- times be found all frozen to death in a bunch; how cold they must have gotten to huddle up in a bunch and froze to death. It looks as if they had taken to their wings for a spell they might have gotten warm, but the weather was so cold from day to day, and the ground frozen so hard, that they could get but very little to eat, so it would seem as if they died of hunger as much as of cold. One day while walking along a road through a piece of woods, I saw a Caro- lina Wren in a slight hollow in a pine stump standing by the side of the road; on investigation it proved to be dead, and appeared to have been there for sometime. I left it in its silent and elevated grave to sleep the sleep of natures rest. One day after a thunder storm I was walking across a field in which were small pine bushes growing here and there, as it happened, I stumbled on an overturned nest a Chipping Sparrow with its contents, four eggs, laying on the ground below unbroken, and buried in the mud about half. The parent birds were nowhere to be seen. In the latter part of April 1898 there came a rain storm with some snow, and the wind blew hard and steady all the while. The nests of birds were blown out and the eggs destroyed. Walking through the woods you might see over- turned nests of various kinds, and once in a while a young bird was seen, wet and cold if not dead. One nest par- ticularly noticed by me was one of the Pine Warbler, placed on a pine limb at the height of twenty-five feet from the ground. I found it lying on the ground, with egg shells in and around it. I had calculating to get a set of eggs from it as soon as I could catch the bird on the nest — to know for certain it was ready to take — and not have to climb up and run the risk of causing the birds to leave the nest before a full complement was to be obtained. I found nests of Pine Warblers, Chip- ping Sparrows and the White-breasted Nuthatch destroyed. One touching scene came to my eyes, it was the dead body of a young Caro- lina Wren, wet and cold he yielded to the grim hand of death. How many more followed? Surely many of the young of all the earlier species perished in the rain and snow; draggled and wet and cold, I saw some that looked as if they would die in a few more hours R. P. Smithwick. Merry Hill, N. C. THE OOLOGIST. The Oologist. A Monthly Publication Devoted to OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. Correspondence and Items of interest to the student of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited from all. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single subscription 50c per annum Sample copies 5c each The above rates Include payment of postage. Each subscriber Is given a card good for a Want, Exchange or For Sale Notice. (This card Is redeemable at any time within one year from date thereon.) Subscriptions can begin with aoy number. 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Remittances Ehouid be made by Draft, Express or Postofflce Money Order, Registered Letter or Postal Note. Unused U. S. Postage Stamps of any denomination will be accepted for sums un- der one dallar. Malie Money Orders and Drafts payable and address all subscriptions and com- munications to FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. Cuckoo Notes from Yates Co. N. Y. It seems to me a singular coiacident that Mr. Short should be having some strange experience with Cuckoos at the same time that I was. I refer to the incubation of their eggs. My method of ascertaining the state of incubation in eggs that I leave for complete sets is to hold the egg between my eye and the sun, for if the weather is dry it has been my experience that eggs are not stained to any great extent so incuba- tion might be thvee or four days along and the eggs look fresh especially in a dark tangle of foliage. On May 30,1898, I found a nest— in a thorn bush— of the Black billed Cuckoo containing three eggs and as they usually lay four and knowing that the first egg laid was liable to hatch before the fourth egg would be laid I was very careful to ex- amine each egg, the result being that two eggs proved to be fresh, while one egg gave evidence of containing a tiny embryo, so J decided to leave them. I visited the nest every day and the fourth egg was laid on June 1st, yet I left them for a possible set of five, but as there were no more eggs laid on June 3d I took the four eggs. Upon blowing them I found that incubation in three eggs ranged from a little bloody to small embryos, while the other e^g contained a ftdly developed embi'yo that probably would have hatched in a few hours, so I could not save the egg. Now, as there was an interval of two days between the laying of the third and fourth eggs, and as- suming that there was the same inter- val between each i;%g, it would indicate that the first egg; was laid on May 26th, so my conclusions are that the Black- billed Cuckoos incubate their eggs in nine days. Regarding above set I noted the following in my data book. "The eggs were fresh on Decoration Day, in- cubation of Cuckoos eggs must be re- markably short." Another Cuckoo incident came to my notice on June 5th of this year, when I found a Black-bills nest with the moth- er bird sitting upon three ycuuig ones and a slightly incubated egg and a typical egg of the Yellow-bill, also on same day I foun-1 a deserKd Robins nest containing an unmistakable egg of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo. In January '93 or '94 I shot a speci- men of the Horned Lark from a flock of fhp: oOlogist 77 about 50 that were feeding ia a bare wheat ti-^ltl. The. skin is iu uiy collec- tion but as my notes are rather scant regarding the larks I shall try to tiud out the status of Otocoris alpestrU in my loitallty the cniiiiug winter. C. F. Stone, Branc'hport, N. Y. The Humming- Bird. Most of the hummers sip honey i'."om the flowers. Poised on wings that move so rapidly that they appear like a semi- circle of Aim around their swaying bodies, the birds insert their long beaks into the tubes of flowers and extract nectar with relish. It is true that some of the warblers and kinglets will some- of th warblr shrdluntaoin .shrdluncf times poise in this way before a leaf and peck an insect from its surface, but this occurs rarely, and it is not a regular habit of these birds. The .susurrus of the hummer's wings as he balances in the air or darts from flower to flower has given the birdling his name. One of the most wonderful features of hummer flight is the bird's ability to move back- ward while on the wing — probably the only instance in which a bird is able to accomplish this feat. Mr. Ridgway says that this movement is greatly as- sisted by a forward flirt of the bird's expanded tail. There are, however, a few exceptions to this rapid manner of flight, even in the hummer family. One of the most striking is that of the giant humming bird, which flaps its wings in a slow, leisurely way as it hovers over a flower much like the desultory vibrations of a large butterfly's wings. During flight its tail is constantly expanded and closed like a fan, and its body is kept, in an almost vertical position, and seems to be suspended from a central point. It is not to be wondered at that the humming birds are sought for decora- tive purposes. Their rich colors and bright ornaments make them a tenipt- 'ng prize to the lovers of gaudy fash- ions. Vast numbers are slaughtered in Mexico and South America, being killed with fine shot or caught with nets and line. On account of this ruthless de- struction some species are said to be on the verge of extinction, and of course it will be the most beautiful kinds that will be exterminated first. At a sale held in London on March 21, 1888, more than 12,000 hummer skins were disposed of and in one week 100,000 hummers and other American birds were sold in London at auction. A brilliant hummer, flitting airily amid the foliage and flowers, is "a thing of beauty and a joy forever." On a woman's bonnet such a decoration is little short of garish. All the colors of the spectrum, with many inter- mingled tints, are combined in their ' ;)lumage, so that some of them seem to be truly kalelidoycopic. One of the most striking ornaments of many of the hummers is the "gorget," as it isj called — that is, a gleaming throat patch of imbricated feathers. In the common ruby throat it is ruby, as the name im- plies; in several speciesi, like Costa's humming bird, the tips of the feathers are purple and the baaal portions snow white. In others they gleam in the most metallic red or violet. Sometimes the feathers of these gorgets are elongated into a beautiful ruff on each side of the neck, or into a bearded tuft reaching down from the chin. Still more wonderful are the crests worn by a number of the species. There for instance, is Guerin's helmet crest, whose head is surmounted by a tall, slender top-knot that looks like a mini- ature pyramid, while a pointed beard of almost the same length depends from Its chin. Princess Helena's coquette has a double crest, both parts running to a sharp point, making them look like two tiny horns, while its gorget is decor- ated at its base with a semi-circle of elongated feathers that stream out like pennants. The spangled coquette has a crest of the finest spray spread out in the form of a round fan, dappled with metallic black spots. No less varied and wonderful are the tails of the hummers. Robert Ridgway says: "The shape and development of 78 THE OOLOGIST. the tail feathers of the humming birds vary to a degree that has no parallel among other birds, many of the forms assumed being also entirely unique. There arc deeply forked and scissor- shaped tails, wedge-shaped tails, double rounded and doub'e emarginated tails, tails and streamers of ourious forms, tails with raquette-shaped feathers and tails whose quaint and elaborate struc- ture defies description by any spesific term. Several spec.es have long feathers that sweep around in graceful lestoons, either ruh.ning parallel or else crossing each other. These pennants are often free of vanes, save at the end, where there is a broad, fanlike expan- sion. 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Mounted Birds, Shells, Minerals, Opals, Curios, Gems &c The following articles will be sold at auction, December 5, 1898. All bids must be received by mail by 4 p. m. on that day. The highest bidder in each case will be noti- fied of his purchase and can remit or have goods sent C. O. D. I have placed a reserve price on each lot and no lower bid will be considered. Parties not wishing the whole of any lot can bid on any part of it. Address all bids to irOBKRT BlTRTxmA]^, 143 Gallup St., PROVIDENCE, R. I. 1 1 specimen Arcadiolite, N.S., 2x3, fine I lo 2 1 " '• " 4x4 " 25 3 10 lbs. Agatized Wood, Ariz., " 2 00 4 lOOlbs.Actinolite, Mass., good 6 00 5 100 lbs. Alabaster, Italy, fine 10 00 7 100 lbs. Albite, N. H., tine 5 00 1 specimen Allanite, N. H., 2x3, fine 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 1 " Analcite, N. H., 2x3, fine 1 ' ' Amber Baltic Sea 1 " Ankerite, Penn., 2x3 1 " Andalusite, Mass., good.. 1 '■ " '• fine.... 1 " Antumony, Japan, 2x2, fine 1 " " •• 3x4,fine 25 1 " Asbestus, Mass 10 1 " '■ "3x4 25 1 •' Azurite, Col 05 1 ■' " " 2x3. fine 15 1 " Barite, Eng., 2x3, good... 10 1 " '• •• 3x4, fine 35 100 lbs. Beryl, N. H., good 6 00 1 specimen Biotite (15 lbs,). Mass., Matrix 100 1 specimen Biotite, Mass. , 2x3 05 1 " '• " 3x4 10 1 " Black Spinel, N.Y., mat. .. 25 J .> .. .. .. IQ 1 " Bowenite, R. 1 10 1 '' Bornite, Col 10 1 " Brookite. Ark 10 40 lbs. Brown Spar, R. I 2 40 1 specimen Brucite, Pa * 10 40 lbs. Buhrstone, France 3 00 1 specimen Calamine, N. Y 15 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 .53 54 .55 56 57 58 a59 60 61 62 63 64 65 40 lbs. Calcareous Tufa, N. Y 40 lbs. Canrlnite, Me 1 specimen Catlinite, Minn., 3x5 . . 1 " Cerargyrite, Nev., 1 oz. 1 " Chabazite, N. S 1 Chalcedony on Coral, Fla . . . lOlts. Chalcopyrite, Col 1 specimen Chlorite, R.I 1 ■■ ChrysocoUa, Col 10 lbs. Cinnalar, Col. , fine 1 specimen Columbite, Conn 400 lbs. Coquina 1 specimen Copalite, Africa 1 " Cyanite, Conn 10 lbs. Cyanite, Conn 1 specimen Diamond, Africa 15 lbs. Diaspore, Mass 15 lbs. Elaeolite. Ark 40 lbs, Emery, Mass 40 lbs. Epidote, Mass 1 specimen Flint, Eng 1 " Franklinite, N. J 100 lbs. Galenite, Col 10 lbs. Galenite, Mass., rare 200 lbs. Granite in Matrix, Mass 400 lbs. Quartz, R. I 200 lbs. " Geodes, 111 100 lbs. Chalcedony Geodes, 111 1 specimen Graphite, Europe 1 '• Bloodstone, Europe 1 " Heulandite, N. S 100 lbs. Hornblende, Mass 200 lbs. Hematite, R. I 40 lbs. Pyrite, Col 1 specimen Lava, Ves r " Leopardite, N. C 1 " Malachite, Chili 10 lbs. M&rgarite, Mass 1 specimen Masonite, R. I 1 '• Pearl spar, N. Y 10 lbs. Petrified Wood, Ariz 10 lbs. Phylite, R. I 1 specimen Pyrolusite, Col 10 Quartz Christals, N. Y. and Ark. 10 10 10 " " " " . 2 40 4 00 30 35 10 20 75 10 10 4 00 •10 16 00 10 05 1 00 2 00 3 75 90 3 60 3 60 10 10 10 00 1 00 18 00 20 00 16 00 10 00 15 25 10 8 00 16 00 800 10 25 15 1 50 10 10 «0 70 15 20 30 50 1 00 THE OOLOGISr. 79 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 i:« 13J 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 J 49 150 151 152 153 154 155 158 100 lbs. Rhomb Spar, R. 1 5 00 10 lbs. Scapolite, Mass 60 1 specimen Selenite Crystal, Ark 10 10 lbs. Seyberite, Me 1 00 4 specimens Silver Ore 1 00 1 spec. Smoky Quartz Crystal, Col ... 05 1 •' •■ - Col 15 1 " Sodalite. Me • 10 1 '• Specular Iron, 2x2 Ala 10 10 lbs. Sphalerite, Mo 70 1 specimen Splene, N. Y 50 10 lbs. Stilbite, N. S 50 5 lbs. Spodumme, Mass 40 1 specimen Sulphur, 4x4 30 1 ■' ■' Crystal 15 1 '■ Tourmaline, Mass 25 1 ■ ■ Tremolite 25 1 •• Troosite Matrix Xtal . 25 1 •• Obsidian (10 lbs. )Mex. 2 25 1 •• Wollastonite 10 1 •• Zlncite, N. J 10 10 Zircon Crystals 35 10 lbs. Zoicite, Mass 80 1 specimen Nuttalite,4x5, 2 lbs., Mass. 15 1 '• Pink Wemerite, 4x5, 2 lbs. Mass 15 4 " Boltonite, 3x3, 1 Ib.Mass.. 12 1 EpidoteinActinolite,4x5.31bs.,Mass. 25 1 GreyEpidote, 4x4, I'a, Mass 2."i 1 Grey Epidote, IXxm 25 1 specimen Kyanite, Conn., 4x5, 3 lbs. 25 1 " Selenite, Mich., 4x6,4i^lbs. 25 1 " Magnesite, Greece 25 1 '• Porphyretic Granite, N. H., 5x5. 5 lbs 20 1 specimens Apatite Crystals, N. B.. iK3M T5 1 specimen Pearl Spar, base, 4x5, 2 Galenite Crystals, 2x2'/4, 1'^xm cut by large Calcite Crystals, beauty . 1 00 1 specimen smoky Quartz, R. 1 15 4 •• Stilbite, 4x4, N. S 150 1 •■ Smoky Quartz Crystal, 5x5, N. C 75 30 Arrowheads, different States 90 10 •• " ■• 75 10 ■■ Obsidian, Mexico 2 50 10 " " Mexico 5 00 10 •' •• " 7 50 10 '• " '• 10 00 1 Obsidian Knife, Mexico 25 1 '• " " 25 1 •• " " 40 1 ■■ " " 50 1 •• '• '■ 75 1 " •• •• 1 00 Mounted Birds on Stands. Cooper's Hawk pouncing on Quail ... 5 00 American Golden-eye (see Duck) — 3 00 Murre, Common Guilemot 1 50 Rocky Mountain Screech Owl 5 00 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 00 Black and White Warbler. Crossbill (Am.) Che wink, Towhea Red and Yellow-shouldered Blackbird. Red-shafted Flicker. Yellow-headed Blackbird. Wilson's Tern. Blue Jay. Least Sandpiper. Meadow Lark. Sparrow Hawk. laeadow Lark. Great Blue Heron. Fresh Water Shells, polished. 1 pair Unlo Solidus, rare 75 I •' Unlo Alatus, Wis 150 1 '■ Unlo rectus '• 75 1 " Unlo gibbosus " 75 1 '• Unio Llgamultines, Wis 85 1 •• Unio Plicatus, Wis 95 1 ■■ Unlo Metanever, •' 75 157 1 " Unio Trigonus " 1 00 These shells are polished and shine like a mirror. 153 1 dozen Scalloped shells, pierced and polished 25 159 1 Hermit Crab and Shell 10 160 1 Horse Shoe Crab, small 10 161 1 " •' " 81nch 20 162 1 Sea Urchin (sand dollar) 05 163 1 dozen Skates eggs 10 Ifri i4 dozen Sturgeon plates 20 165 >4 '• Sea Clam, 4x6 for painting.. 25 166 V4 gallon mixed Shells 30 167 1/2 doz. White Murex 58 168 X '• PinkMurex 68 169 14 " Conch Shells 50 170 Yz '• Helmet or Queen Shells 100 171 1 doz. large Alligator Teeth 35 172 Large Turtle S.hell, (gopher) Fla 75 173 1 Saw-flsh-saw, 11 inches, Fla 15 174 1 Trunk Fish, 7 " " 30 175 1 Porcupine Fish, 5 " '■ 25 176 Pistol used 5u years ago 50 177 1 piece Mexican Onyx. 8 square in 25 178 1 " •• ' 16 " "fine. 1 00 179 10" Fo&sil Coral, 50 sqaure in., fine. 2 CO 180 11 '■ black and white Agate, 45"good 160 181 10'- redand white Agate, 40" '• 150 182 1 " Moss Agate, Brazil, 4 inch " 2.t 183 1 " " '• '• 3 •• •• 10 184 1 Epidote, Mass., 5 inch, good 25 185 1 doz. Opals (fine) Mexico 50 186 Idoz. " " •' 1 00 187 14 doz. 1 00 183 1/2 " precious Opals, Australia 1 00 190 i^ " •' " 1 EO 191 1^ " " " 1 50 192 2 " " 2 CO 193 1 " •' 2 CO 194 1 " " 3 CO 195 1 •• " Mex. orAus... 5 00 196 1 .... .. 10 CO 187 1 Tourmaline, S.Paris, Me., tine JiKt 8 CO 198 1 " " " " % Kt. 12 CO 199 1 " " '• " 1-16" 6 CO £0J 1 " " " goodK " 2 00 201 1 Aquamarine, •• •' fine5^8Kt 6 00 •ZOi 1 •■ 3-'^ " 4 00 203 1 " " " " 313 " 3 50 204 1 Red Carbuncle, 10mmxl4mm fine . . 1 50 205 1 Amethyst Carbuncle, 8x12, tine 150 206 1 " " Faceted,8xl2fine 1 CO 207 1 American Turquoise, ^Bin.x9-16,tine 2 00 208 1 •• " 3 1-16in.xX" ■ 1 00 209 1 Topaz, faceted, 3-8 in fine 1 tO 210 1 pr. Sardonyx for sleeve buttons, fine 75 211 1 pr. Onyx, do 75 212 4 oz. Rough Opals, specimens differ- ent colors to show all kinds and conditions 25 213 4 oz. better quality 50 214 4 oz. still better 100 215 1 Topaz specimen Crystal 20 216 iRuby '• 20 217 1 " " large 60 218 1 Emerald " 49 219 1 Sapphire " 15 220 1 Diamond 2 00 221 1 Skookum Stone 25 222 1 Maple Desk 1.50 years old. Can send drawing. Perfect proof of age and history will be sent on request 40 00 223 2 Chairs, solid mahogany, very old. In good repair, eacli 5 00 224 1 Table cloth 6 yards long, 6 napkins. These were the property of Maxmillian and used by him in Mexico. Have the coat of arms of Austria. Are very heavy linen 75 00 225 1 doz. fine hand-painted calendars, 1899, each 15 026 1 doz. photo views of Providence 15 227 1 doz. books flowers of New England, hand-painted, each 50 228 1 Arctic Fox skin, white 5 60 80 THE OOLOGIST. Annual Holiday Sale. Birds Eggs in sets with data. For $1.00 you can select $2.50 worth. For $2.00 you can select $6.00 worth. All orders of over $3.00 can select three times the amount sent. No discount on orders of less than $1.00. Everything sent prepaid. With all orders of $5 or over will be shipped free a uitable tray for every set purchased. Figures following the name give the number of eggs in each set. Western Grebe, 4 |2 00 5 8 50 Holboell's Grebe, 3 1 50 St Domingo Grebe, 4 - 1 40 Tufted Puffin, 1 75 1 20 Large-billed Puffin,.! 1 00 Horned Puffin, 1 2 00 Cassin's Auklet, 1 1 50 Black Guillemot, 2 50 Pigeon Guilemot, 2 1 00 Murre, 1 20 California Murre, 1 20 Pallas's Murre, 1 60 Razor-billed Auk, 1 25 Skua, 2 1 00 Parasitic Jaeger, 2 1 00 Kittiwake, 3 1 20 Iceland Gull, 2 1 50 Herring Gull, 3 60 American Herring Gull, 3 60 Mew Gull, 2 (1 dam) 50 Gull-blUed Tern, 3 75 Caspain Tern, 2 70 Royal Tern, 2 60 CabofsTern. 3 1 20 Common Tern, 3 24 Arctic, 3 30 Roseate, Tern, 3 4a Least Tern, 2 16 Sooty Tern, 1 25 Bridled Tern, 1 1 00 Black Tern, 3 - 30 White-winged Black Tern, 3 1 50 Noddy Tern, 1 - 35 Black Skimmer, 3 36 " T 4 -18 Fulmar, 1 75 Manx Shearwater, 1 75 Audubon's Shearwater, 1 1 50 Stormy Petrel, 1 50 Leach's Petrel, 1 20 Yellow-billed Tropic Bird, 1 2 50 Booby. 1 1 7.5 Gannet, 1 35 Cormorant, 4 1 00 Double-crested Cormorant, 4 1 00 Farallone Cormorant, 4 2 00 Pelagic Cormorant, 3 3 00 American White Pelican, 3 1 05 Brown Pelican, 3 60 4 80 California Brown Pelican, 3 2 25 Man-o-war Bird, 1 1 00 Red-breasted Merganser, 6 4 50 Mallard, 8 l 60 Gadwall, 5 3 75 Widgeon, 8 2 00 Baldpate, 5 3 75 European Teal, 7 1 40 Blue-winged Teal. 8 1 60 Cinnamon Teal, 9 3 15 Shoveller, 10 3 50 Pintail, 8 2 40 Red-head Duck, 7 2 45 9 3 15 Canvas-back Dnck, 7 8 75 Lesser-scaup Duck, 5 3 75 American Golden-eye, 8 6 00 Harlequin Duck, 5 5 00 Northorn Eider, 5 2 00 American Eider, 6 1 50 Whitewinged Scoter, 7 17 50 Ruddy Duck, 10 5 00 Canada Goose, 5 7 50 American Flamingo, 1 1 00 Wood Ibis, 2 2 00 American Bittern, 4 _ 3 00 Least Bittern, 4. 80 1 00 1 75 90 Great Blue Heron, 5 : European Blue Heron, 4 ■ American Egret, 3 Reddish Egret, 3 1 05 4 1 40 Louisania Heron, 4 48 Green Heron, 3 36 4 48 Black-crowned Night Heron, 4 48 Yellow-crowned Night Heron, 4 80 6 1 20 King Kail, 7 l 40 Clapper Rail, 10 1 20 " 12 144 Virginia Rail, 8 1 20 Spotted Crake, 4 1 20 Sora Rail, 6 60 " 12 1 20 Corncrake, 8 i 60 Purple Gallinule, 8 2 00 Florida Gallinule, 7 70 European Coot, 6 90 American Coot. 5 40 " 12 96 Northern Phalarope, 4 3 00 Wilson's Phalarope, 4. 3 00 American Avocet, 2 1 00 Black-necked Stilt, 3 1 50 " 4 2 00 European Snipe, 4 1 00 Spotted Sandpiper, 3 45 Lapwing, 4 60 Golden Plover, 4 1 60 Killdeer, 4 80 Ring Plover, 4 80 Little Ring Plover, 4 100 Snowy Plover, 3 1 50 Wilson's Plover, 3 75 Oyster-catcher, 3 75 Bob-white. 12 1 SO Texan Bob-white, 9 90 California Partridge, 7 70 Valley Partridge, 17 9 55 Sooty Grouse, 5 4 25 Ruffed Groused, 7 1 tB Oregon Ruffed Grouse, 9 3 60 Rock Ptarmigan. 6 3 00 Prairia Sharp-tailed Grouse. 10 ,,, 6 00 6 ^ 3 00 English Pheasant, 13 „... 3 25 " " 10 3 50 The OoLOGiST. VOL. XV. NO. 12. ALBION, N. Y., DEC, 1898. Whole No. 149 Ring-necked Pheasant in New Jersey. This year's report of the New Jersej' Fish' and Game Commission contains an exhaustive and interesting review of the work undertaken to stock the State with the Ring-necked Pheasant. Owing to our limited space we are able to give only a few of the more interesting par- agraphs and reports: In many of the States of the Union the Ring-necked Pheasant has been in- troduced with success, although in nearly every case its introduction was due primarily at least to private enter- prise. There is perhaps no State better adapted to this bird than New Jersey, especially in the southern part, where the sparsely settled yet cultivated coun- try seems to offer them a home where they may propagate their species with- out assistance from human kind. For it must be remembered that in most places where the Ring-necked Pheasant has been introduced it was propagated by the eggs being placed nnder the common hen, the parent bird declining to sit long enough to hatch out the young or to take care of ihem after they had left the shell. Experiments tried in this country show that the female bird makes a better mother in this country than it does in England, and many instances are recorded of the bird rearing its own young. Scientists attribute this to the more prolific insect life in this country; they argue that in Europe and in England especially, in- sects are less numerous than they are here, and that consequently there the Pheasant has enough to do to provide for its own subsistence without troub- ling itself with a numerous progeny. Be the facts what they may, it is well established that the Ring, Pheasants in this country take care of their own young. All these facts having been taken into consideration your commission con- cluded to try the experiment of intro- ducing the Ring-necked Pheasant into New Jersey. For this' purpose a num- ber of birds were sent out two years ago, care being taken to provide homes for them where there was a probability of their being looked after for some time. Everywhere they were received with pleasure, especially so in farming communities. The inhabitants had ob- served with regret the diminution in the numbers of the indigenous Ruft'ed Grouse and they welcomed the beauti- ful stranger. No argument could be ad- duced against the bii'd, for it destroys no growing crops, pilfers little of the fallen grain and far more than compen- sates for the loss of the grain by the destruction of insects. The result of the experiment was closely watched, and it was so encouraging that your commission was induced to continue its efforts toward the better introduction of the bird. Last year the number put out was increased over that of the pre- ceeding year, and although failures are reported in a few instances, a perusal of the subjoined letters will probably bring the careful reader to the conclu- sion arrived at by your commission, that the bird may be introduced into New Jersey, and that with a close seas- on for a few years, and proper care, it will soon become more numerous here than the Ruffed Grouse. Your com- mission has no desire whatever to per- sist in the experiment of introducing the bird unless thei'e is at least a prob- able chance of its ultimate success and in order that youi-self and the public generally may know just what degree THE OOLOGIS'l. of success or failure has attended the experimeat, letters were written to those who had received birds, inquiring as to what had been the outcome. Some answers to these letters are here- with reproduced, both for information as to the experiment itself and for the purpose of guiding such persons as may in the future feel inclined to assist in the introduction of the bird. Ring-necked Pheasants have been dis- tributed to counties as follows: Atlan- tic 6, Bergen 37, Burlington 63, Cam- den 6, Cape May 12, Cumberland 98. Essex 0, Gloucester 24, Hudson 0, Hun- terdon 12, Mercer 18, Middlesex 18, Monmouth 24, Morris 42, Ocean 24, Pas- saic 18, Salem 54, Somerset 0, Sussex 6, Union 6, Warren 6; total 464. From George W. Dunham, fish and game warden, Flemington, Aug. 25, 1898: In April, 1897, you sent me twelve Pheasants— three cocks and nine hens. They were turned out in differ- ent localities, between Flemington and the Delaware River, a distance of about ten miles. Wherever they were placed the farmers promised to protect them and prohibit gunning that year. This was done, and so far as I can learn but four birds were shot. Three of the hens, however, were killed by mowing machines, leaving but six to hatch. Last December, after careful investiga- tion, I found that there were at least sixty birds in the vicinity where they were released. I have visited these farms recently and find the result most satisfactory, the farmers having taken pride in pro- tecting the birds and feeding them dur- ing the winter. Many of them fed with their fowls all winter. S^-v^ral have been killed by mowing m ichines this summer, as they nest in the tall grass near the underbrush, and cannot be seen. 1 attach hereto the names of some of the farmers upon whose lands they have hatched, and do not hesitate to say there are at least 300 birds in the immediate vicinity where they were first released. There is exceptionally tine cover for them in that locality. This, together with the protection afforded them, ac- counts for the increase. A few of the young birds scattered, but I do not learn of any nesting far away, and the old ones are still on the ground where vhey were turned out. Other broods are reported, but I am unable at this writing to say positively that the in- formation is true; these farms are situ- ated in three adjoining townships. The old pheasants on them number at least 100, and quail are abundant throughout that section. The report is made upon personal examination, and the numbers are not exaggerated. From Mr. M. L. Hoagland, secretary of the White Meadow Club, Rockaway, Aug. 27, 1898. In addition to the three cocks and six hens received from you, we purchased six hens, making twelve hens and three cocks in all; these were put in coops separately, with one cock and four hens to a coop; they began lay- ing on April 16, and averaged nine eggs per day till they had laid in all 308 eggs up to about the latter part of July, and then they stopped. The eggs we hatched under hens and found that bantam hens are far superior to any other kind; in fact nearly all we lost were with large hens, so there is no question but that bantam hens are the best to mother the chicks. We also found the first eggs were by far the best, producing stronger chicks and a larger percentage than those laid later in the summer. Out of the 300 and odd eggs received we hatched about 280 chicks; these we kept in runs made of 1 inch mess wire, 4 feet wide and 8 feet long, with a tight coop in one end for the mother hen. All the birds we hatched out at first died from different causes, but T think the most fatal of all was the lice, which seem sure death to little pheasants; it was not till we had lost by I'HK OOLOUIST 83 far the greater number of those hatched that we found out how to care for them, so we could raise them with any degree of success, and by that time our old hens had stopped laying. Of the 230 chicks hatched out we have only suc- ceeded in raising to maturity thirty-six, which we have recently liberated. This seems a very poor return for all our trouble and expense, but I am cer- tain that next year we can raise seven- ty-hve per cent, of those hatched; when we began last spring no one knew any- thing about raising them, and we went by such instruction as we could gather, with the result that we lost nearly all oar birds, and it was not till we began to follow the dictates of common sense that we succeeded in raising any. I would advise any one trying to raise Pheasants to burn up all printed matter he may have on the subject and go at it to reproduce, as near as possible, the natural conditions as the bird would tind them in the woods, giving them all kinds of insects and plenty of fresh water. There is no reason why they cannot be raised if they are properly cared for; the last hen we had come off hatched eleven birds from thirteen eggs, and we raised nine of the birds, and let them go, so you see if we had been able to do anything like that at first we would have had a tine lot, but experience is absolutely necessary, and when we began we had none; however, we propose to keep our old birds over till next year, and fully expect to raise a good lot of birds. I hope that those who like us have tried to raise them and failed, because of inexperience, will not get discouraged and quit, but will keep at it till our State is well stocked with them. We hope for some good results from-^the thirty-six young birds we turned out this summer, and if they breed at all and we raise some more next year we will soon get the country stocked with them. From Colonel J. Howard Willets. Fort Elizabeth, Aug. 29, 1898: The pheasants sent last year did splendidly, and if they had not been killed by law in the fall we should have had hundreds of them for breeding this spring. The last consignment this spring also did well. I placed two hens and a cock from last year's birds in a pen; one hen laid twenty seven eggs and the other thirty-two, but neither hen would set. I took the eggs and placed them under a bantam chicken, and they hatched out two broods. These lived'and did well, and this spring I turned them loose, so we had them to begin with. This spring's consignment of one dozen I turned out at once. I located four nests, and they all hatched out well, one of thirty-one, one of twenty-six and one of twenty-two. The last nest had only nine eggs; as they were very late I judged that something destroyed the first nest, and that the hen laid only nine on second laying. A farmer mow- ed over her nest, and as they were all "piped" and the workmen kept the hen from returning to the nest, he no- tified me, and at noon I went over and got the eggs, placed them under a hen, and the next morning they were all hatched. I took them back, found the old bird (with my -dog) and I let the voung go. Their "peep" soon brought the mother, and she has the whole nine, save one, now. I saw them yesterday, they are the size of quail. A farmer told me last week that he had found a nest of thirty-one eggs a few weeks ago, and watched them until they hatched every egg. The only reason I can see that will prevent the plan of introduc- ing them here is that they will go to the open fields of grass and especially meadows to breed, and as the the law permits shooting and they in the open they will all be killed as fast as they breed, and before they become numer- ous enough to be compelled to take to the woods. The three farms upon which we have seven broods that we 84 IHE OOLOGIS'l . know of we shall be compelled to "post" this year, and keep everybody ofif in order to save the birds. Our loc- al sportsmen we can control, and they will not kill them, but the reed and rail bird shooting here brings so many strangers that they follow it up when the quail season comes in, and we can protect the pheasants in no other way. The "out" birds in the woods will no doubt, many of them, be killed. I know of at least a dozen broods in the woods within ^wo or three miles, which shows that they will soon spread ever a large area of territory, and I think enough of them will escape this fall to insure the success of their introduction They breed such large broods, take good care of their young, stand the winters well and will no doubt multiply. If we had only had last year and this year, while they were gaining a foothold, a close season, we would have made a complete success of their introduction, and would probably after that never had need of anything. From Mr. Julius Munch, Preakness, Sept. 15. 1898: The half-dozen Ring- necked Pheasants sent me gave me a desire to attempt the raising of these birds on a more extensive scale, and I accordingly secured two dozen more, and I am glad to say that I am more than gratified with the result. I was wholly inexperienced, and to this I at- tribute the loss of many young birds. I first attempted to induce the hen pheasant to sit, but did not succeed. I watched the bird very closely aud thought she showed a determination to sit, as she was most of the time crouch- ed on the ground in a nest she had made in the sand. I permitted her to keep her own eggs, and added others to it, but the bird never sat more than five or ten minutes at a time, when she would get up and run away for several minutes, after which she returned to her eggs. 1 saw she would not hatch, and so I took all but two of the eggs away from her. aud sl2c, only 13c; set of 11 Austrian stamps, 1 to 50kr, catalogue value 26c, only 9c; 10 varieties of old paper money 2.5c to $100, genuine originals, only 30c; a $10 bill and catalogue of over 150 varieties 8c; 2 Indian arrows from N C. 8c. J. E. HAND- SHAW, Smithtown Brancli, N. Y. N3t PUBLICATIONS, EGGS, BOOKS WANTED: I v/ill allow 50c each for any back number of the ''Auk'" vou may have, if in good condition and sent prepaid. You to take your full pay In Eggs, Shells (showy or scientillc). Corals, Echinoderms, Fossils. Minerals, Stamps, Hand- books, Curios or Novelties, (Books, Instru- ments and Supplies will be given in exception- al cases by special arrangement) as Jisted in the Premium List Supplement. I can also use on same terms the following numbers of the OoLOGiST at prices quoted: June, 18S8, 2.5c; July-Aug , 18S6, 20c; Jan.-Feb , 1887 or Dec, 1886 with same attached, 10c; June-Sept., 1887, 15c; Apr.. 1889, 15c: Jan-Feb.. 1888, 10c: Jan., 1895, 5c; March, 1897, 5c: May, 1897, 5c. All must be complete, clean, and in good condition. I will also accept back No's of Ornithologist and Oolo- gist. Becreation. Insect Life, any issue and in any quantity at 5c per copy on same terms. (I will allow a.-cfor Oct., '93 and Feb., '94 "Mds," also for October and December "96 Osprey.) If you have other publications along my line. Write and state what is wanted. I can also use books on subjects pertaining to Natural History if in good condition and cheap, also A No. 1 sets of eggs with data at !^"Stand- ard" rates. Lists of books and eggs must be submitted for mv selection or approval before sending. Address at once FRANK H. LAT- TIN, Albion, N. Y. The White City Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens, $3. 50 smaller size, $2. 50 ama- teur size, $1. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $3. 100 Fossils, including fine Fish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several tine Ferns, etc., only $8. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from 35c to 81, very showy. Taxidermy in all its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIERS, Natural- ists Agency. 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago. 111. "THE STORY OF THE FARALLONES." Text by C. Barlow, arranged and published by H. R. Taylor. A beautiful brochure filled with charming descriptions and illustrations in halt-tone of the wonderful bird rookeries. Appreciated by all who see it and doubly fascinating to the Oologist. In all there are 379 SQUARE INCHES of costly illustrations on enamel paper. Dr. Coues says of the work: "It is very handsomely gotten up— a credit to all con- cerned, either in the text or illustrations, and gives a great deal of information in an enter- taining manner." The elegant Souvenir, worth more than twice the money, will be sent for ONLY 30 CENTS, POSTPAID, Or Two to one address for 50 cents. Remit in any form to H. R. TAYLOR, Publisher, ALAMEDA, CAL. MINERALS '""'^"'^ "" TtlE OSPREY Now Published from NEW YORK. Carried hither by result of its successful publication. Among the features of the coming months are interesting articles and photographs by well-known natura'ists, relative to Cuba, Greenland, Alaska, IMLexico, etc. In the Boobvs of Revillegigedo Islands," Mr. A. W. Anthony tells of the Red-footed. Blue- faced, and Brewster's Boobys as he met with them on his expeditions into Mexican waters. Six wonderfully interesting photographs pic- tures to us the curious birds as they are, alive, on the far off Pacific islands. Mr. Geo. G. Cantwell has resisted the eold excitement long enough to .'end The Osprey some excellent photographs of Alaskan birds. Also many other photographs of nature are to appear— in numbers and quality equalled only by those found in The Osprey. Articles are constantly appearing by the best ornithological writers ar^d men of nation- al reputation, besides articles and notes by field naturalists, adequate in themselves to sustain The Osprey's reputation as the repre- sentative monthly of bird students. Portraits of Great American Ornithologists in THE OSPREY. Subscription, 51. Sample copy lOc. THE OSPREY CO., 141 East 25th St., New York City. Ttie Oregon Naturalist. The Oregon Naturalist is the only magazine on the Pacific Coast devoted to Natural Sci- ence. A sample copy free. Address, JNO. W. MARTIN, Palestine, Oregon. »i— oivers. Rifles, QFINF^ NETS, TENTS, and Every description of Guns, R3volvers, Ammu- nition and Sporting Goods at very lowest pric- es. We have something of interest to you. We have some com- pound Folds in rock, and a few Banded! Sandstone Faults, both very interesting to Geologists, and a quantity of polished material for sale. We make a specialty of cutting and polishing cab- inet material at our Steam Lapidary Shop. John G. Buxton, Milo Centre, N. Y. fOLDS THE OOLOGIST. Dr. Miles' Nervine A REMEDY FOR THE Effects of Tobacco. THE excessive use of tobacco, especially by young men is alv7ays injurious and undoubtedly stiortens life materially. Mr. Ed. C. Ebsen, compositor on the Contra- Costa Kews, Martinez, Cal., writes; "I have used Dr. Miles' Kestorative Nervine and re- ceived much benefit from it. I was troubled with nervousness, dizzy spells and sleepless- ness, caused by the use of tobacco and stim- ulants. I took Dr. Miles' Nervine with mar- velously good results, allaying the dizziness, quieting the nerves, and enabling mo to sleep and rest, proving in my case a very beneficial remedy." Dr. Miles' Kestorative Nervine is especially adapted to restoring the nervous system to its normal condition under such circumstances. It socllicn, heals and strengthens. Dr. Miles' Ecmedies I are sold by all drug- gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money re- funded. Book on dis- eases of the heart and nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart, Ind. New Mineral Store. If you want good and cheap Mineral Specimens write for Circular and particulars. ANDREW HARTMAN, 4515 Parrish St., Philadelphia, Pa. GEORGE G. CANTWELL, JUNEAU, ALASKA. The spoils of an eight months collecting trip among the Islands of the Alaskan coast are now offered for sale, consisting of rare Sea Birds and Eggs, Puffins, Auks, Murrelets, Cor- morants, etc. , and many interesting curios of the SIWASH INDIANS. Full line of Ex8 views of the route to the Gold Fields. Juneau, Dyea, Skagaway. Chilkat Pass, Yukon river, etc., 50 cents each. $5 per assorted dozen. Send for Price List. N6t THE ODELL ^ -^ ^ "WmXER. with 78 characters.war- ranted to do as good work as any machine made. It combines simplicity with DURABrLiTY, SPEED, EASE OF OPERATION, wears longer with- out cost of repairs than any other machine. Has no ink ribbon to bother the operator. It is NEAT, SUBSTANTIAL, nickel-plated, perfect, and adapted to all kinds of type writing. Like a printing press, it produces sharp, clean, legi- ble manuscripts. Two or ten copies can be made at one writing. Any intelligent person, can become an operator in two days Reliable Agents and Salesmen wanted. For Pamphlet giving Indorsements, etc.,, address 139 ODELL TYPE WRITER CO., 358-364 Dearborn St., CHICAGO, ILL. THE ANTIQUARIAN. The single journal in America exclu- sively devoted to the study of Prehis- toric Man, which aims to occupy the ground between the scientist and the student. Quite a feature made cf late i\ discoveries and other news in Arch- ^ aeology. Excellently illustrated. Sam- ple copies to Archaeologists and Students. Issacd monthly at $1.50 per year. Special terms to workers. PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. THE LANDON PTG. AND PUB. CO. COLUMBUS, 0EI3. •^r»o<^-<*<»oo<^^=r»^<^0<*» This montli's OOI.,OGlSX -was mailed subscribers Eeb. 9. THE OOLOGIST New and Second-hand BOOKS PRICES GOOD UNTIL APRIL 1, 1898. Starred (*) titles are second hand copies, but as a rule the inside pages are "good as new." Many are practically new. but previous ownei's' name has been written within. The unstarred titles are for new books, in a few instances the covers are slightly shelf-worn. Many volumes and sets cannot be duplicated— hence the necessity of sending your order ear- ly. When ordering always S'tate whether you have a second choice, or whether you wish money refunded, in case books ordered have been sold. Many of the volumes offered in this list are taken from my private library and 1 otter them for sale: First, because 1 need the room for other books, and Second, because I need the cash to purchase these "other books." IMPORTANT! Lack of time and space prevents my listing more books this month. I have hundreds of other puolications in stock and can procure auyihing obtainable. - Write your wants. Remit in most convenient manner, but do not send sums of $1.00 or over loose in your letter. All books are PREPAID at prices quoted. Address all orders plainly and in full to FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. Ornithology and Oology. A. O. U. Check-list, abridged edition (50).$ 30 A. O. U. Check List of North American Birds. Last edition, cloth 1 90 A. O. U. Supplement for '88 20 Apgar, A., Pocket Key of the Birds of the Northern United States East of the Rocky Mountains (50) 40 Chamberlain, New and revised edition. Nuttall's Land. Game and Water Birds, colored plates and many illus- trations, 2 vols ^5 30 *Chapman, Frank M., Birds Found within Fifty Miles of New York City (50) 30 Chapman, Frank M., A Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North America 2 85 Earl, Thos. M., Pets of the Household. Their Care in Health and Disease (.50) 24 Goss, Col. N. S., History of the Birds of Kansas (7.50) 5 40 McIlwraith,Thomas, Birds of Ontario(2.00) 1 65 Ridgway.Robt., Manual of^North-Amer- can Birds (7..50) 6 32 Stearns, ^N . A.. Bird Life in Labrador (75) ,58 *Morris, Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 2 vols. 151 colored plates 7 33 Wilcox, Common Land Birds, of New En- gland 60 Maynard. Birds of Eastern North .Ameri- ca. 296 pages of orginal 533. bound in card board covers, 3 plates 1 62 Eliot, List of Described Species of Hum- ming Birds 13 Louck's, Life History and Distribution of the Prothonotary Warbler in Illinois.. 31 Ingersoll, E. Birds' Nesting 1 05 Maynard, Chas. J. Eggs of North Ameri- can Birds 1 90 Coues, E. Key of North American Birds.. 6 98 Check List of American Birds 8 95 Langille, Rev. J. H. Our Birds in their Haunts 180 Merriam, Florence A. Birds through an Opera Glass 68 Raine, Walter. Bird Nesting in North- west Canada 1 SO Barrow's, The English Sparrow in North America, 4(X)pp - 65 *Brewer, North American Oology, Part I, 74 colored eggs 2 92 Ridgway, Catilogue Of Old World Birds in National Museum 10 *Warren, Birds Of Pennsylvania, 100 col- oied plates 3 24 Short, Birds of Western New York, '96 ed. The Wilson Quarterly and Semi-Annual, the official organ of the Wilson Or- nithological Chapter. Six issues, viz: Vol. I. No. a; Vol. n. Nos. 1 and8;VoL III, No. 1; Vol. IV. No. 1 and 2. Nearly 300 pages of valuable contributions to Ornithology (1.70) Cook, A. J., Birds of Michigan. This copy Is the 1893 report of the Michigan Board of Agriculture which contains 526 pages and is bound in cloth, 165 of these pages, illustrated with 115 en- gravings, are devoted to the Birds of Michigan in addition to which and the annual report the following Bul- letins are a Isopublished in the volume : "Vegetable Tests" 27 pages; "Spurry, Spergiila anieiisis."^ 6 pages; "Flat Pea, Lalhyrus silvesMs, 5 pages; Fruit Notes and Spraying 17 pages; Potato Experiment, .59 pages; Honey Analy- sis. 13 pages; Insppctionof Fertilizers, 12 pages ; Locust and Horn Fly, 6 pages ; Soils of Michigaa. 13 pages; Eighty New Strawberries. 13 pages; Report of exhibit at Columbian Exposition, (Entomological, Botanical, Chemical, &c), 37 pages; Forestry, 21 pages Shufeldt, M. D., R. W., "Scientific Taxid- ermy for Museums." 71 full page plates, 67 pages, text, unbound Ornithological and Natural History Publi- cations can furnish back No's of al- most anything published iQ America during the past 25 years. Write wants, "Voung Oologist, Vol. I and II, cloth bound Oologist, Vol. Ill and IV, cloth bound Vol. IX. 92. 300 pages, cloth bound Thirty ii ck numbers, issued from 1890 to 1890. inclusive, my selection 07 59 63 Oologist and Young Oologist. Eighty back numb rs. All different. (4.00). Lot ■prepai I only 1 40 Twenty IK ck numbers issued prior to 1890, \i." selection, prepaid Almost :> V back i*suecan he furnished. Send ai 1 up for list and prices. Natural Scie ice News. Vol. I complete, 52 num' rs, only six complete vols, left. W.U send you one for only 1 Vol. II complete, 14 numbers, only 41 THE OOLOGIST. Fill your gaps while you cau. I can now turnish odd numbers, complete volumes and In some eases complete files of the following and dozens of others: Auk. Nidiologist. Osprey, Ornithologist and Oologist, Science, Popular Science Monthly Sat ure.'Canadian Entomologist', Insect Life, American JVaturalist. Archaeologist, Nautilus. Microscopical Bulletin, Microscope, Microscopical Journal. Hoosier Naturalist, Ore- ■gon Naturalist. leva Ornithologist Sunny South Oologist. Taxidermist, Mineral Collector. Hawk- eye Ornithologist and Oologist, Wisconsin Nat- uralist, Old Curiosity Shop. Ornithologist and Bolanist, Bay State Oologist, Collector's Monthly . &c.. &c. Zoology and Natural History. Buffon's Natural History For Children, Cloth and Gilt, 32 Colored Plates 36 Colton, Practical Zoology (90) 65 Heilprin, Angelo, Animal Life of Our Sea Shore (I.aS) 1 10 Jordan, D. S., Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States (8,50) 2 25 Manton, V^. P., Primary Methods in Zool- ogy 41 Mivart, St. G., The Cat, A Study of Back- boned Animals (3..50) 2 29 Orton, Comparative Zoology. Structural and Systematic, 350 engravings 1 07 ♦Packard, A. S., Brief Course in Zoology 76 Stearns, W. A., Notes on the Natural His- tory of Labrador (l.OO) 41 •Wood, J. G., Illustrated Natural History (1.25) 58 White's Natural History of Selbourne 86 Vol. n, Letters 18 Ballard, World of Matter 95 Allen, Monograph of North American Pin- nipeds 2 34 Coues, Fur Bearing Animals 1 53 Living World, A. popular Natural History devoted to Fish. Reptiles Insects, Birds, Mammals and Lower Inverte- brates. Over 1300 good, engravings— 350 of mammals, 300 of birds, &c. Over 700 pages, good type, good paper, ele- gantly bound in cloth and gilt, size, 8x10 In 1 78 Jordan, Science Sketches (1..50) 99 Bilby, Young Folks' Natural History 40 Gill, Catalogue of the Fishes of the East Coast of North America 16 Fauna of Death Valley, Expedition. Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, Mollusks, Trees and Shrubs, Cactuses and Yuc- cas. Localities 1 13 Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burmah. Birds, 2 vols., 270 cuts Moths, 1 vol., 330 cuts Mammals, 1 vol., 20Jcuts Fish. 2 vols , 340 cuts Reptiles and Batrachie, 1 vol., 140 cuts.. Seven volumes, 4.000 pages, 1,300 Illus- trations . 15 30 Burroughs, Kiverby (1.2.5) 81 Penikese, The 23 Issues of Natural Science News. This valuable serial on Agas- slz's famous summer school at Penik- ese Island, written by an eminent Professor who spent both seasons at the Island 25 Penikese, book form, paper covers (.50)... 35 Lydecker, Royal Naliu-al History, 6 vols, complete in 36 loose parts, profusly il- lustrated, many colored plates 12 15 Bailey, The Prairie Ground Squirrel or Spermophlles of the MississippiValley 66 Allen, The American Bison, living and extinct, maps and 12 plates 2 34 Conchology, &c. *Dana, Jas. D., Corals and Coral Islands (5.C0) 2 67 Pilsbry, H. A., The Manual of Conchology. Issued in 8vo form in quarterly parts. Each part contains 64 or more pages of letter press and 15 to 20 plates. Of Marine Univalves, 15 vols., 60 parts, have appeared Of Terrestial Mol- lusces. 9 vols., 36 parts, have been pub- lished, completing Helix with Index. Fine edition, both colored and India- tinted plates, per part f8 GO; Sample part of flne edition on "Tree Snails," cost $8.00 3 65 •Chenu, Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paleontologie Conchyliologique, Vol. I— Univalves, 3707 figures 7 56 Clarke, Common Sea Weeds 36 ■Wood's Common Shells of the Sea Shore 45 Tryon, Strepomatidae, American Melan- ians, 838 figures 2 81 •Woodward, S. P., A Manual of the Mol- lubca, 350 pages, 23 plates, over 800 figures I 80 Miscellaneous. •Agassiz, A Journey in Brazil 1 56 Livingstone's Explorations, Africa, and the Herald Stanley Expedition (1.75). . 86 Chute's Physics (1.25) 81 Taxidermy, Guides, &c. Ballard, H. H., Three Kingdoms, Hand- book of Agassiz Association (75) 65 Goodale's, Few Common Plants (20) 14 Hyatt's Sponges (29) 16 Bowditch's Physiology (20) 13 Hornaday, W T., Taxidermy and Zoolog- ical Collecting (2.50) 2 10 Lattin. Frank H., The Oologista' Hand- book, 18a5 (2.5) 18 The Standard Catalogue of North Amer- ican Birds Eggs, 1896 (2.5) 05 Hyatt's About Pebbles 10 Tassin, How to Collect Minerals 03 Bert, Primer and Scientific Knowledge 42 Standard American Stamp Catalogue, '94 22 • Davie, Naturalists' Manual 24 Naturalists' Directory of the U. S. and Canada. Nearly 6000 classified names and address. Edition of '90 (2.00) 80 Edition of '95 (2.00) 1 00 International Directory. '95(2.50) 90 Microscopy. Manton, W. P., Beginnings with the Mic- roscope (.50) 40 •Wythe, The Microscopist; A Compen- dium of Microscopic Science (8.00) 3 20 Entomology. Eberhart, N. M., Elements of Entomology 30 Economic Entomology. 30 VIU THE OOLOGIST. Hyatt's Insects (1.25) 81 Manton, W. P., Insects, How to Catch and How to Prepare for the Cabinet (50) .... 36 Thomas, Synopsis of the J.crJdi(i« of No. America 1 60 Geology, Mineralogy, &c. Dana, E. S., Mineralogy and Petrography (2.00) $ 1 75 *Dana, Geological Story (1.15) 81 Dana, Minerals and How to Study Them.. 1 35 *SteeIe, J. D., 14 Weeks in Geology (1.00)... 51 Winchell, Alex., Geological Studies (2.50).. 1 71 *Hitchcock's Elementary Geology 50" Jordan's Elementary Crystallography, with series of nets, for the construc- tion of Crystals (1.50) 52 Botany. Burgers, J. T., English Wild Flowers 36 *Wood, A., Object Le.ssons in Botany(1.17) 75 *Class Book of Botany (2.92) 1 13 *Gray Asa, School and Field Book of Bot- any (1.80) 112 Manual of Botany, rev. (1.62) 1 45 *L.essons and Manual, rev. (2.16) 1 12 Manton, W. P., Field Botany (50) 40 Apgar, Pocket Key to Trees 41 Address, Frank H. Lattin, Albion, N. Y. TAXIDERMISTS' GUNS, ^G°u^n"s^,* Pistols, Gun Cases, Shooting Shot Shells ; also l^.^s% SPECIMEN HUNTERS. All kinds, all prices from $l.')i to $'2.i.OO. List free. Write for TaxidermisVs free list. JAMES H. JOHNSTON, =»I'rXSBURO. PA. FRANK B. ARMSTRONG, TAXIDERMIST, and Collector and Dealer in Bird and Mammal Skins, Birds Eggs in fine sets. Mounted Birds and Animals. BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS. CABINETS. Send 10 cts for photo of our speciality— Self Locking. T perches -Oak sam- ples by mail 8c, 10c and 15c: also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels. &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 58MOtf Shells, Marine Curios, &c. I am now readv to supply first-class stock at low prices and should you wish anything from this section, let me hear from you. All inquir- ies will have a prompt reply. mtf J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. Come to Florida. A fortune can be made in a few years in pineapples and tomatoes; vegetables raised the whole year. An ideal home. For particulars write R. P. Osier, Avon Park, Fla. 29&Otf SHINE? Minerals, Fossils and Shells cut and polished at our .Steam Lapidary Shop, recently fitted up on the most improved plans where we do first-class work at reasonable prices. Cabinet work a specialty. Polished material for sale. JOHN G. BUXTON, Milo Centre, N. Y. Iceland, Lapland, Spain. A large stock of Birds Eggs— last season's collecting has just arrived from the above lo- calities. Descriptive price-list sent free upon application. A. KRICHELDORFF, Naturalist, etc., No. 535 Oranien-Strasse, Ber- in, S., Germany. CALIFORNIA CURIOSITIES. Mounted Horned Toads, Tarantulas, Scorpions, Trap-Door Spiders, 5 Specimen Collections, etc. Also Trap-Door Sp'der's Nesis. Headquarters for Pincushions both from Yucca, Palm and Redwood Bark. Lowest prices on Orangewood Goods, such as Napkin Rings, Fancy Paper Cutters, etc. Best work on mounted specimens. No trash. Wholesale Illustrated Price List free to o5t dealers only. G. W. TUTTLE, PASADENA, CAL. NATURALISTS' PRINTING ^fo^^tl^"" cheap. Egg labels 15c per 100 small; 25 per 100 large. Fossil 10c per 100, Letter heads 35 per 100. Send copy for prices. D. H. EATON, Woburn. Mass. H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, COLLECTORS, RALEIGH, N. C. First-class Skins of Birds and Mammals, Bird's Eggs, Reptiles and Batrachia both Alive and in Alcohol. Histological Ma- terial. Full data. Send stamp for lists. VOL. XV. NO. 2 ALBION, N. Y., FEBRUARY, 1898. Whole No. 141 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. Brief special announcements, "Wants," "Excli.inges" "For Sales," Inserted in this department tor 25c per 2.t words. Notices over 2.5 words, charged at the rate ot one-hal£ cent per each additional word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly Plrst-class specimens will be accepted la payment at one-third list rates. ^A/'hat's Your Number? Examine the number following your name on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It denotes when your subscription expired or will expire. No. 141 your subscription expires with this issue 145 " " •' " June, " 150 " " " " Nov., " Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- mined. If we have you credited wrong we wish to rectify. This month's OOI^OGISX was mailed subscribers march 7. I HAVE live Black and Bald Eagles, a pair Fawns, Foxes, Coons, Squirrels ; also Natural History specimens of all kinds to sell or trade. C. F. FITE, Denver, Ind. TO EXCHANGE:— California bird skins for books on Zoologj-, Physiology, Botany, Ento- mology, Geology. Send descriptive list of books stating edition and of desiderata. R. E. SNODGRASS, Palo Alto, Calif. FOR SALE or EXCHANGE:— A pocket ko- dak in good condition. Would like cash or will exchange for oolopists' supplies or arrow- head.s. ARCHIE DAWSON, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. FOR SALE: -Good 414x414 Vive Camera, six plates, twelve cards, twelve .lensitized papers, printing frame and instructions f4.00. OTIS TROTTER, Camp Point, III. WANTED:— A pedigreed black cocker span- iel dog, also a poiuter or setter dog (state age). Will give fine sets of eggs in exchange. P. D. GETTY, 301 N. Main St., Bloomington, 111. TO EXCHANGE.— Eggs of this locality for eggs of other localities, all first class with datas. Same wanted in exchange- CHAS. E. RICE, Odell. Nebraska. WANTED ror CASH.— Cocoons of Polyphem- us, Promethea, Ceatiothi and others. '97 Search Light bicycle lamp for best offer of cocoons or birds' eggs. JAMES L. MITCHELL, Indiana Trust Building, Indianapolis. Indiana. DESIRABLE Western Bird Skins to ex- change for Horned Larks and Song Sparrows. Correspondence necessary. J. O. SNYDER, Curator of Zoological Museum, Staniord Uni- versity, Cal. • WANTED.— Good pair of climbers. For same I offer first class sets, with data, Col- umbian Sharp-tailed Grouse. Write describing climbers. STORRS H. LYMAN, Box 41, Day- ton, Wash. FOR SALE.— Arrowhead Scarf Pins mount- ed in rolled gold 50c. each; sterling silver 75c. each. Also a lot of fine Ohio Bird arrow points and other Indian Relics. CHAS. R . HESTON, Sidney, O. FOR SALE.— 4x5 photographs of curious donble nest of Chipping Sparrow, like cut in January Osprey, price 25c. WM. H. FISHER, 1602 Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore, Md. WANTED.— Live Goldfinches. American species, either sex; prefer Arkansas and Law- rence. Will give good exchange or reasonable cash price. WALTER C. WOOD. 196 Randolph St., Detroit, Mich. F3t WANTED.— Collectors In tne United States and Canada to gather and prepare for me. sci- entifically, birds eggs, in large quantities. In sets with data at a reasonable price. State what varieties in your locality and terms. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 4.57 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. F3t FOR SALE or EXCHANGE.— .5x7 Premier Hand Camera, R. R. Lens, 3 plate-holders, case etc., good as new: lor )4 cost (cash) a perfect bargain. 12 ga. insertion barrel, many desir- able books as Pacific R. R., Reports IX and X: Fisher, Hawks, Owls and others. Want good bird, mammal skins, reptiles and curios. Send for list. J. O. DUNN, 360 E. 39th St., Chicago. FOR SALE.— Arrowhead Scarf Pins mount- ed in rolled plate gold 3.5c. Solid silver 60c. each postpaid. (This olTer good imtil April 1st only) Al.so Bird Points and other Indian relics and minernls at reduced prices. CHAS. R. HESTON, Sidney. O. VT THE OOLUGIST EXCHANGE.— Aiik, vol. 14; O. and O., vols. 15, 16 and 17; Nidologist, Osprey and Museum — some rare; Kombi Camera: fine sets 1, 9, 11, 13, 59, 1^6, 182, 184, 199, c25. 337b, 360a, 373, 478a, 707, and cash for strictly first class adult skin?. 1. 2, 3. 6, 131, 1,35, 1S7, 146, 147, 148, 149, 1.50, 153, 169.1, 212, 214, S3U, 232. 249, 2.54, 2.55. 263, 2*7, 30.5, 308b, 332, 323, 334a. 337, 337a, 342. 343. 3.55, 957, 360, 538, 539. 540a, 542a, 545, .546, 548, 561, 581, 584, 721, 721a' 758a. EUGENE S. ROLFE, Minnewau- kan, N. Dak. FOR SALE.— Minerals. For 12 one cent stamps win mail postpaid a cabinet specimen of Micaceous Quartz (mica quartz and feld- spar). Sparkling, very pretty and showy. A late find. CHAS. R. HESTON, Sidney, O. LGOKl-Crayon portraits, 16x20 for $1.25 cash. Would exchange a few for eges. books, fete. Everybody write. W. PAUL. STORMGNT, Sterling, Kan. FOR SALE.— Guitar at $7.50, cost $15 new, oak back and sides, standard size, good tone; also D fiute, 4 keys, cheap. W. PAUL STROM- ONT, Sterling, Kan. EXCHANGE.— Violin and ca&e, postage stamps and eggs for Coues' Key, Ornitholog- ical books and good sets with data from other localities. C V. J EFFREY, Indianola, Iowa, EXCHANGE.— International Stamp Album '96 edition, containing 300 var. stamps, cata logue value $10.00. Would like to exchange this for camera, birds ^ggs. stamps or rifle FRANK R. SANDERS, Box 674, Laconia, N. H TO EXCHANGE.— Aboitt 20 first class sets birds eggs, with data, will exchange at half catalogue rates. Want Hornaday's Taxider- my, also glass eyes, W. O. HOTCHKISS, Twinsburg. O. I WILL give one pair Climbing Irons strap- ped ready for use for $2.50 worth of eggs in sets. P. H. METCALF, Holyoke, Mass. ■ WANTED.— Human Skull with Teeth, Birds Eggs, (singles) Mounted Specimens. 22 Rifle, U. S. Stamps, Indian Relics, Fossils, Minerals, Opals. Autographs. Shells, Curios. I offer in exchange an Odell Typewriter, Bible printed in 1674, other old books, autograph letters of Jay Gould, polished onyx books mounted for watch charms, Johnson's Encyclopedia 8 vols., war papers. Write me now. I also hav^ some fine U. S. stamps, general issue, department and revenue. CHAS. E. TUTTLE. 2 Nickwackett St., Rutland, Vt. WANTED.— A first class set of 335 1-3. Will give 337 1-2, S94 1-4, .529 1-5. Datas given and re- quired. L. S. HORTON, Gretna, N. Y. WANTED.— A first class set of 337b)a.v. Only one block from Woodward and JefTerson Aves Klevator Service, Steam Heat, Electric lAghts, Tile Floors, Ktc^ H. H. JAMES &, SON, Prop'rs. ' THE OOLOGIST. PRICES FOR BACK NUMBERS OF THE YOUNG OOLOGIST AND THE OOLOGIST Avill, during 1898, remain as quoted below After which the prices of many numbers ■will be advanced and possibly not obtainable at any price. Should you desire back numbers to complete your file now is the time to purchase. You can never obtain them for less money and possibly not at any price, as our stock ranges from only 2 to 25 copies of an issue. Prices for 1898 are as follo-ws: Nos. 18, 32 and 42 can no longer be furnished,— 3b cents each when in stock. Nos. 15, 21, 23-24, 34-35, 89, 111 are 85e each. Nos. 1, 14, 88, 127, 15c each. Nos. 9, 11, 13, 16. b3, 66-67, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 87, 90, 101, 113, 114, 115, 130, 133, 137, 10c each. ^^AU other numbers, 5c per copy. Kor 50c I will send a package of twenty (20) all different back numbers, my selection. Kor SSi I will send a package of fifty (50) back numbers, all different, my selection. Kor $2 I will send a package of ninety (90) back numbers, all different, my selection. Kor $5 I will send by return mail a copy of every Issue published (excepting 18, 32 and 42)— Nos. 1 to 139 inclusive. My prices for back Nos. of the Young Oolo- GiST and OOLOGIST in volumes, are as follows: Vol. T. 1884-5, Nos. 1 to 12 $ .60 " II. 188.5, " 13 and 14 20 " III. 1886, " 15to20aackingNo.l8) .35 '• IV. 1887, " 21 to 25-26 '. .45 " V. 1888, " S7to38(lackingNo.32) .50 " VI. 1889, " 39 to 50 do 42 .40 " VII. 1890, '• 51 to 63 50 " Vni.1891, '■ 63 to 74 50 " IX. 1893, " 75 to 86 70 ■ X. 1893, " 87 to 98 75 '■ XI. 1894, " 99 to 110 ."iO " XII. 1895, •' 111 to 123 60 " XIII,1896, " 123 to 127 25 " XIV.1897. " 128 to 139 50 BOUND VOLUMES. Can be furnished, strongly bound in cloth and boards, as follows: Vol. I and II Young Oologist bound in one volume $1.00 Vol. Ill and IV, The Oologist, bound in one volume, only 1.00 Vol. IX. The Oologist for '92, 298 pages of valuable and instructive Oological and Ornithological matter with many full page illustrations 1.00 Or, if you order the three volumes at one time, we will send them by return mail for only $2. 50. Every student of birds, their nests and eggs should have these three volumes In their libra- ry. The valuable information they contain, is worth many times the price. Address plainly FRANK H. LATTIN, Putillslier of XHH OOL.OGISX, ALBION, N.Y. At Four Score. Dr. Miles' Nervine Restores Health. UNCLE EZEKIEL OBEAR, assessor and tax collector, Beverly, Mass., who has passed the 80th life mile stone, says: "Dr. Miles' Eestorative Nervine has done a great deal of good. I suffered for years from sleeplessness and nervous heart trouble. Would feci weary and used up in the morn- ing, had no ambition and my work seemed a burden. A friend recommended Dr. Miles' Nervine, and I purchased a bottle under protest as I had tried so many remedies un- successfully, I thought it no use. But it gave me restful sleep, a good appetite and restored me to energetic health. It is a grand good medicine, and I will gladly write anyone inquiring, full particulars of my sat- isfactory experience." I Dr. Miles' Eomedies 1 are sold by all dru? gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money re- funded. Book on dis- eases of the heart and nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. Extra Special. Any person purchasing Books to tlie amount of $1.00 or over al prices offei'- ed in last issue will be entitled to The Oologist one year, with an exchange coupon, gratis. Offer good until April first only. THE OOLOGIST. THE ^O'^SARCH CHAIf^LESS. A Bicycle Gearing Absolutely Hew^ Hovsl^ and Practical* In their indiscriminate haste to an- nounce the making of chainless wheels, some manufacturers have tumbled over «acli other in the endeavor to be in front. To be in front is a spasm, to "keep in front " is sustained energy. To utter a truism is one thing, to live up to it is anotlier. Tlie spirit of the apiiorism of the Monarch Cycle M.iniifacLurmg Com- pany, " Ride a Monarch and Keep in Front," is well illustrated in its latest product, The Monarch Chainless. Alive to tlie times, the company will pro- duce a chainless bicycle which has been proven by repeated tests to be superior, in its class, in every particular. Two surfaces that will roll on each other will transmit motion from one to the other. If the surfaces are compar- atively smooth, the motion is transmit- ted by friction . lint, when the surfaces are provided with projections, the mo- tion, although it is unchanged in nature, is transmitted by direct pressure, and it is irregular unless the acting surfaces of the projections are carefully and exactly sliaped to produce an even mo- tion. It is the difHculty which is ex- perienced to produce these perfect pro- jections, when bevel gears are used, which leads the experienced mechanic awav from them. Long experience in Sewing Machine manufacture has taught the Monarch Company that whatever transmission was used, bevel gears were not to be considered if easy running was to be thought of. The result has bf^f^n a driving gear which is exf^ellent in its r'-.i^v running qualities. The mecliHUisni is simple. Tlie crank Hxlf^ and hut) £TP->r^ somewhat resemble tho f:i'Tii]i;irsnr<^''kef- wheels, the notice able diltereiK'P l)f'ina' the teptli which are r-loser totrether and y shape in cross s^-ntion instead of four sided. Th*; sh-ift, eonneeiing the two is provider! at p-Aoh end witli a pinion having roller pin teeth wliich run in and out of the wir)e ancle openings between th»^ gear teeth. Each set of gears is enclosed but should they from any cause be "ex- posed the action of the pin teeth is such that they are self-cleaning, forcin/j- mud and dirt out from between the teeth. One of tlie chief objections urged against chainless wheels by mefhanics is that should the rear frame become twisted or out of line, there would be a consequent binding of the mating gears. The Monarch chainless is entirely free from this objection inasmuch that the junction of the pinions and gears form a type of the ball and socket joint, thereby permitting free running under the conditions usually met with in bicycle riding. A particular advantage which this gear has, and which gives it the highest efficiency, is the direct lift as against the end thrust which is com- mon to all bevel gearing. This end thrust is a prominent factor in friction and frame strain. Another point to be counted in favor of the Monarch gear is, that it is not of delicate construction although com- paratively light in weight. As stated by Grant, the well known au- thority on gears,"The pin gear is particu- larly valuable when the pins are made in the form of rollers for then the minimum of friction is reached." The friction between the tooth and pin, otherwise a sliding friction at a line bearing is. with a roller pin, a rolling friction. When properly made, there is no form of tooth that is superior to the roller pin tooth. While the Monarch company is war- ranted from the study of experts in placing its chainless machine on the market as the best type of ihat class, its faith in the chain wheel is in no Vvray diminished. It will continne to keep them in the forward ranks of that type of bicycle which is yet the choice of tlie majority of the peoyOe. In line with the general poliey of the Monarch com- pany, the r)rice of its chairdess will be SinfVOO. which will give a complete line, including chain machines, ranging from this price to $40.00. THE OOLOGIST CLEAN YOUR EGGS! Pn'f/rSK just as good work as 35c ones, at 18c postpaid. CLIMBING IRONS. Best "Greeley" irons with forged steel spur and heavy straps, perfectly safe and the best irons made. By express for only $1.95, always previously sold at $3.50. THE BIRDS ARE COMING. I now offer for 30 days only, the best arsenical soap for skins, al- wavs sold at 45c, for only 35c per pint. By ex- press. EGG TRAYS. Any size or color at reduced rates. Write for prices stating what you want. NEW BULLETIN of Eggs, Skins, etc. Just out. Send for copy. Address ERNEST H. SHORT, ALBION, N. Y. How to do it. All you have to do is, enclose in an envelope, 75 cents, stamps or postal or- der. I vpill send to you by return mail a well labeled collection of Shells and Curios from this locality. If you do not find them satisfactory return them and I will return your money. All specimens in natural state. W. H. HILLER, 147 W. 23d St., Los Angeles, Calif. I t DRIVma LAMP I Is about as near perfection as 50 years r of Lannp-Making can attain to. It T burns l^erosene, and gives a powerful, w clear.white light, and will neither blow T nor jar out. When out driving with * it the darkness easily keeps about two V hundred feet ahead of your smartest f! horse. When you want the very best a Driving Lamp to be had. ask your v dealer for the ■■ Dietz." ^ We issue a special Catalogue of this A Lamp and, if you ever prowl around V after night-fall, it will interest you. C 'Tis mailed free. * R. E. Bll^TZ CO., I 6o lyaight St., New York. J J Established In 1840. ^ CALIFORNIA CURIOSITIES. Mounted Horned Toads, Tarantulas, Scorpions. Trap-Door Spiders, 5 Specimen Collections, etc. Also Trap-Door Spider's NesLS. Headquarters for Pincushions both from Yucca Palm and Redwood Bark. Lowest prices on Orangewood Goods, such as Napkin Rings, Fancy Paper Cutters, etc. Best work on mounted specimens. No trash. Wholesale Illustrated Price List free to "•'^*''6i»^iiir dealers only. J ,-^^_ G. W. TUTTLE, PASADENA, CAL. NATURALISTS' PRINTING of all kinds on good paper cheap. Egg labels 15c per 100 small; 25 per lOO large. Fossil 10c per 100, Letter heads 35 per 100. Send copy for prices. D. H. EATON, Woburn. Mass. Trade Marks Designs Copyrights &c. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communica- tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific Hmericdit. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest cir- culation of any scientiflc journal. Terms, S3 a year ; four months, |L Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN iCo.36iBroadway. New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D. C. TAXIDERMISTS' GUNS, jaif^t Pistols, Gun Cases, Shooting Shot ShelLs; also r,;.^3 for SPECIMEN HUNTERS. All kinds, all prices from tl.y) to $25.00. List free. Write for Taxidermist's free list. ■ . ■■ t-*^ JAMES H. JOHNSTON,^ PIXXSBURO. PA. THE OOLOGIST. ^ THE ANTIQUARIAN. ^ i\ The single jonrnal in America exclu- j\ ^ sively devoted to the study of Prehis- ^ A toric Man, which aims to occupy the A W ground between the scientist and the W j\ student. Quite a feature made cf late j\ ij discoveries and other news in Arch- ^J tjEOlogy. Excellently illustrated. Sam- A pie copies to Archaeologists and Students. \g J Issued monthly at $1.50 per year. ^ A Special terms to workers. A k PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS. A A THE LANDON PTG. AND PUB. CO. A A COLUMBUS, OHIO, j\ GEORGE G. CANT WELL, JUNEAU, ALASKA. The spoils of an eight months collecting trip among the Islands of the Alaskan coast are now offered for sale, consisting of rare Sea Birds and Eggs, Puffins, Auks, Murrelets, Cor- morants, etc., and many interesting curios of the SIWASH INDIANS. Full line of 5x8 views of the route to the Gold Fields. Juneau, Dyea, Skagaway. Chilkat Pass, Yukon river, etc., .50 cents each. $5 per assorted dozen. Send for Price List. N6t The Oregon Naturalist. The Oregon Naturalist is the only magazine on the Pacific Coast devoted to Natural Sci- ence. A sample copy free. Address, JNO. W. MARTIN, Palestine, Oregon. Shells, Marine Curios, &c. I am now readv to supply first-class stock at low prices and should you wish anything from this section, let me hear from you. All inquir- ies will have a prompt reply. mtf J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. CABINETS. Send 10 cts for photo of our speciality— Self Locking. T perches -Oak sam- ples by mail 8c. 10c and 15c; also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels. &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. .58MOtf I SOLD my Eagle through the adv. Adver- tlsmg in the Oolo(;ist pays. F. W. COLLINS, Garden City, Kans. HEADACHEcuredin20mlnute3by Dr. Miles* Pain Pills. "Ono cent a dose." At druggists. MIKICDAI C SHELLS, etc. The White IVIIIlLnALO City Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens, $3. 50 smaller size, $2. 50 ama- teur size, $1. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $3. 100 Fossils, including fine Fish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several fine Ferns, etc., only $8. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from 35c to $1, very shovsy. Taxidermy in all its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIERS, Natural- ists Agency. 357 W. VanBuren St.. Chicago. 111. T HE Plant World An illustrated monthly journal of popular botany. Edited by F. H. Knowlton, Ph. D., assisted by a corps of specialists. This journal will aim to present the facts of plant life in a popular and at- tractive way and in everything will be Scientific but not Teclinical. A large number of prominent botan- ists have promised to contribute to the first volume. First number issued Oct. 1st, 16 pages octavo, neatly printed. Subscription, $1 a year. Sample free if requested now. Address, WILLARD N.CLUTE & CO.,Publishers, BINGHAMTON. N. Y. Egg Data Blanks. In books With 3 inch stub; (check- book style), nicely bound and well per- foi'ated. Light maniila covers. Regular 5 inch style. 100 in book $ 85 125 in book 30 Special 8 inch style. 100 in book 28 BOARD COVERS. 5 inch style. 100 in book 33 8 inch style. 100 in book 38 Stubs are arranged both to keep duplicate data and to note the disposition you make of set. Postpaid at prices. Address plainly, ERNEST H. SHORT, Albion, N. Y. WANTHD-BRAINS Send for our handsome views of public buildings, statues and avenues of Washington City. This book cost us many dollars. It will be sent to you for nothing. Write us to-day. Can you think of something to patent ? Protect your ideas: they may bring you wealth. Before applying for patent, get our liberal offers and Inventor's Assistant. Danger in delay. COPP & CO., Patent Attorneys, Waihington, D. C. VUl THE OOLOGIS'J'. DEALER IN PRECIOUS ».»...., v.».v, CURIOS AND FINE MINERALS. Cutting and polishing Agates and Gem Stones, and setting the same in solid gold settings a specialty. 143 Gallup St. PRICE LIST OP GEMS. OPALS. Australian 50c to $40.00 per kt. Hungarian 50c to 50.00 Mexican lOc to 20.00 " Opal Scarf Pins set in Solid Gold in four siz- es, as follows: 75c, $1.25, 2.50, 3.50. STUDS. Screw or Separate Back, $1.00 to $3 GO. Clus- ters to order. mt EARRINGS ^......*^2mto$D.0U RINGS', ETC., SET '^; ORDER. Prices an application for soecial settings or extra fine stones. AMETHYST, TOPAZ, MOONSTONE, BLOODSTONE, AGATE, CROCIDOLITE, &c. In all forms and sizes for Rings, Pins, Charms, 10c to $5.00. Tourmaline .50c to $1.5.00 per kt. Aquamarine 50c to 5.0'j " Part Exchange will be accepted in pay- ment during the next thirty days. Good Live AgeMts 'Wanted in all parts of the world. Liberal cash commission paid. Having a large stock on hand. I will, for a short time sell 20 lbs. of good Minerals for $1. One to forty kinds as you want then, large or small. liiiii!iiiiiiiii!iiiiniiiri ; I iii:n:iir:iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iii{t iiiiiiiib 1 RAPID TAXIDERMY. I Ten persons ci'U learn at once as well as one and bring t'le cost down to nothing. All materials i .anished. Sold on a guarantee to give perfect sat- isfaction or money refunded. Write for Cirt-ulars, Testimonials and Guarantee. Mention The Oologist and address. Providence, R. I. E MORRIS GIBBS, M.D.. | K:alaiuazoo, 9iicli. ^ III 1 1 11 1 II 1 1 i!i II III 1 1 III iiiii III 1 1 III I III liiiiii III m^^^ B ARGAINS Single Eggs and Sets. Prices cannot be beaten. Forster's Arctic, Common and Black Terns: Lapwing, European Coot, Skylark, Meadow Pipit and 50 other species. 5 cents eacli. Puffin, Mew Gull, Kittiwake, Herring, Cali- fornian and Ring-billed Gulls, Cormorant, Black Guillemot, Razor-billed Auk, Anhinga, Pintail, Redhead and American Eider, Corn- crake. Snipe. Dunlin, Ruff, Oystercatcher. Kes- trel and 50 other species, at 10 cents eacli. Western, Hcelbell's and St. Domingo Grebes, Parasitic Jaeger, Royal Tern, Fulmar, Gannet. Stormy Petrel, Lesser Scaup, Goldeneye and Northern Eider, Avocet, Curlew, Whimbrel, Nighthawk, and .50 other kinds. I5 cents each. Glaucous Gull, Mana Shearwater, Canvas- back, Barrow's Goldeneye. Harlequin Duck, Wood Ibis. Merlin, Short-eared Owl, White- necked Raven and others. 25 cents each. Black-throated Loon, Iceland Gull, Boobyi Canada Goose, European Swan, Turnstone- Broad-winged Hawk, Caracara, Raven. 50 cents each. Loon, Yellow-billed Tropic Bird, Greenshank, Duck Hawk. Gray Sea Eagle, Mississippi Kite. Bohemian Waxwing, and other rare eggs at $1.00 each. Least Auklet, Ancient Murrelet, Black Oy- stercatcher Bald Eagle and others, $1.50 each. Also sets of the above with original data. Largest stock of Bii'ds Eggs in North America, and testimonials from many welVknown Amer- ican Ornithologists speaking in the highest terms of my specimens and reliability and manner of dealing my customers. Walter Raine, Bleaker St., Toronto, Ca. IDENTIFY YOUR EGGS. For 3" lays I offer Maynard's "Eggs of North Vmericaii BiKh," last edition with col' rid plates at .$1.70, inepaid, cloth bou id and new. Adiress, ERNEST H. SHORT. Albion, N. Y. VOL. XV. NO. 3. ALBION, N. Y., MARCH, 1898. Whole No. 142 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. Brief special announcements, "Wants," "Exchanges" "For Sales," Inserted m this department tor 2.V; per 2.t words. Notices over 2,t words, charged at the rate of one-halt cent per each additional word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted In payment at one-third list rates. What's Your Number? Examine the number following your name On the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It denotes when your subscription expired or will expire. No. 141 your subscription expires with this Issue 145 " " •' " June, " 150 " " " " Nov., " Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- mined. If we have you credited wrong we "Wish to rectify. Xhis month's OOL,OGISX -was mailed subscribers 9Iarcli 12. FOR SALE:— Auk vols. 10, 11, 12, 13, $150 each; 0. and 0. vols. 6 to 18 inclusive. Make Cash offer for the set. Many others. BENJA- MIN HOAG, Stephentovra, New York. FOR SALE:— Live Diamond Backed Rattle- snakes. Large and in fine condition. Also rattlesnake skins, stuffed alligators, saw fish saws and other Florida curios. Sawfish fine .specimen sent postpaid for Socts. Address L. S. MORRISON, Orange City, Fla. PREMIUMS:— I will sell, in amounts of 50c or over, any of the premiums offered on last page of this month's Oolo(;ist at i4 price listed for cafih-(e 1. $1 worth for 50c; H worth for $1, ■&C). FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion. N. Y. HAND EGG Blow-pipe for blowing and rinsing eggs. Sent prepaid with Instructions for 75c or will exchange one for J.3 worth of Alsets. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. MUt WILD CAT Souv^enlrs from the grandest natural park In W. Ills. A view and lice min- eral or fossil for 'iic. Stamps, minerals, fos- sils, for stamps. HARVEY H. BROWN, Ham- ilton, Ills. TO EXCHANGE:— Finely mounted Game Heads, for first class eggs lu sets with datas. Send for full lists of every thing In the natur- alist's line. Address by return mail. WAL- TER E. McLAIN, Taxidermist and Job Print- «r. New Vineyard. Maine. REMEMBER:— Lapwing 1-4, 80c; Least Fly- catcher n-3, 15c. Birds, 1897 or 1898, $1.20; 1897 cloth, $1.85. Eggs accepted in part payment for Columbia and Hartford bicycles. BENJA- MIN HOAG, Stephentown. N. 5f. MUZZLE loading shot guns, Rifles, Revol- vers, Telescope, Birds Eggs, Books, Papers. Coins, everything way down. If you want some bargains write. Enclose stamp, please. C. B. VANDERKOOK, Odin, 111. FOR SALE or EXCHANGE;— Two hundred first class sets with data. Cheap for cash. Can use a 12 gauge repeating shot gun. Phes- ants. Pigeons, etc. J. O. JOHNSON, South- ington. Conn. WANTED.— Live Goldfinches, American species, either sex; prefer Arkansas and Law- rence. Will give good exchange or reasonable cash price. WALTER C. WOOD. 196 Randolph St., Detroit, Mich. F2t WANTED.— Collectors in tne United States and Canada to gather and prepare for me, sci- entifically, birds eggs, in large quantities, in sets with data at a reasonable price. State what varieties in your locality and terms. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 4.57 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. F3t BOOKS WANTED:— New or 2d hand copies of Davie's "Nests and Eggs" (any editon): Bendire's "Life Histories of N. A. Birds;'" Fisher's "Hawks and Owls" or any standard work or publication on Ornithology or Oology. Will give good exchange or cash. FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y. FOR A NEW Geographiscope brass mount- ed reversible lense for either Stereoscopic or Single Views. Chery hood dark chambers lat- est pattern. Magnifies immense, very clear, finely finished with lM finely retouched views. Foreign and American landscapes and comic scenes, &c. All for $5 worth of first class sets not in my collection. Must be Al sets with ori- ginal datas. Send list in A. O. U. Nos. All letters answered. Address GEO. W. MORSE, Care Union Depot Hotel, Omaha, Neb. rHK UOLO(iKS'J WANTED:— Pocket Rifle, Field Glass, 2") gauge Shot gun and a gocd watch. I have a very large list of rare f ets and skins to offer. C.'H. WATROUS, Chester, Conn. BEAUTIFUL Feathered Metalic Tin. (19) to exchange for Vanadinite, (552) or anything in Quartz (210). Only showy specimens wanted. C. J. ASHTON, P. O. Box 306, Elkhart, Ind. THE OSPREY, RECREATION :-New sub- scribers only, can have either magazine a j ear for $1 worth (list rates) desirable bird's egg. Oregon Xaturahst for J2 worth. BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, N. Y. TO EXCHANGE:— For mounted specimens (birds, mammals or heads). Must bt firstclass specitr ens. 1 Columbia Graphophone, and complete outfit, consisting of (36) Al musical and talking records, 1 large 26 inch concert horn, with folding stand. 1 saaller 14 inch horn, 2 way hearing tubes, 1 carrying case for 24 records, recorder, reproducer, 'etc., all com- plete, 1 Bb Cornet. 1 six candle incandescent Electric Desk Lamp, complete with 6 batteries. I will exchange any of the above articles for best offer in mounted speciments. Send for complete list to E. D. CARTER, Berkley, Iowa. 2500 Eggs of Birds of Prey "-^^otl'Z le or ige. For the next 60 days, only, I shall offer some bargains in eggs of Raptoies, of which I have probably the largest stock on this continent. Here are some samples of my removal sale prices. Do not miss this chance, it will not oc- cur again. Sets. Per egg California Vulture, 1 .$ 35 Turkey Vulture, 2 25 Mississippi Kite. 1 to 2 1 25 Marsh Hawk, 4 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk, 4 40 Cooper's Hawk, 3 to 4 10 American Goshawk, 2 to 3 1 25 Harris Hawk, 2 to 3 18 European Buzzard, 2 to 3 18 Red-tailed Hawk, 2 to 3 25 Western Redtail, 2 to3 25 Florida Red-i-houldered Hawk, 3 25 White-tailed Hawk, 2 to 3 40 Swainson's Hawk, 3 to 4 20 Broad-winged Hawk, 2 .^iO Rough legged Hawk, 2 to3 20 American Rov.gh-legged Hawk, 2 to 3 1 25 Ferruginous Roughleg, 2 to 4 1 CO Golden Eagles, 1 to 2 3 00 Bald Eagles, l to 3 1 50 Gray Sea Eagle. 2 to 3 1 00 Gyfalcon, 2 to 3 3 00 Duck Hawk. 4 1 00 Marlin, 4to5 25 Kestril, 4 to 6 10 Audubon's Caracara, 2 to 3 _ 40 Also flue sets of cwls cheap. Full original data with all sets. Satisfaction giiaranteerl. eggs taken back any time within two years at 15 per cent, discount. W. RAINE, Bleeker St.. Toronto, Can. Shells, Marine Curios, &c. I am now ready to supply first-class stock at low prices and should you "wish anything from this section, let me hear from you. " All inquir- ies will have a prompt reply. mtf J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. GEORGE 6. CANTWELL, JUNEAU, ALASKA. The spoils of an eight months collecting trip among the Islands of the Alaskan coast are now offered for sale, consisting of rare Sea Birds and Eggs, Puffins, Auks, Murrelets, Cor- morants, etc., and many interesting curios of the SIWASH INDIANS. Full line of ."xS views of the route to the Gold Fields. Juneau, Dyea. Skagaway. Chilkat Pass, Yukon river, etc., S"* cents each. $5 per assorted dozen. Send for Price List. N6t Easter Bargains. Birds Eggs. Russet-backed Thrush, Wood Thrush, Mcck- ingbird, Sennett's Thrasher, California Bush- tit, Cardinal. House Finch, Tricolored Black- bird, Cedar Waxwing, Flicker, Black Phoebe, Cowblrd. Parkman's Wren, Summer Redbird. Arizona Hooded Oriole. From now until April 15th I offer one of each of these eggs, first class and prepaid fob only 50c. They list at f 1.66, but as I am overstocked I offer them at less than '3 rates. Egg of African Ostrich. Large and clean. Plain one at $1.40.' decorated frr Easter, $1.65. Prepaid at these prices. Snowfiake (winter snowbird) nicely mounted with glass shade, J2. Scarlet Tanager, mounted same style, $2.E0. Indigo Bunting, same style. $1.75. By express. Fine Ribbon Agate (1x1^4 inches), regular price 25c, now 17c, Rough specimens of genuine Fire Opal, lOc each. 30 Arrow Points all different, 45c. 10 varieties st mi-precious stones, all labelled. -10c each. Curios. 1 each: Eyestcne. Lucky-tooth of Cod, Egg& of Skate, Red Sea Bean, Acorn Barnacle, Chin- ese Horn Nut. Shark's Tooth. Tarpon Scale. Mexican Watchman's Whistle, Alligator Tcoth. The ten for c)Uly ."-ifc. Ten vajieties small showy .shells for only 45c. Write me lor prices on all naturalists sup- plies, books, etc. Address, ERNEST H. SHORT. Albion, N. Y. HEW ENGLAND MINERALS. Rhomb Spar, R. 1., Beryl, N. H. : Actinolite. R. I. ; Galenite. Mass, '4 pound specimens of either postpaid for only lO cents: or the four for only 30 cents. The above is only a sample of the bargains I am offering in New England Minerals, Write your wants and send for lists. I handle only good fresh material— no rubbish. ROBERT BURNHAM, No. 143 Gallup St.. PROVIDENCE, R. 1. THE OOLOGIST. aM MEANS WHEN DTO illlldsHxyrfiONS 5INQLE-5H01^ RliLeS ANDALLKJNPS <>f^ TIT Pronounced by Experts the Standard of the World. Ask your dealer for WBNCHESTER make of Gun or Ammunition and take no othes". FREE:— Our new illustrated Oataiogue. WINCHESTER REPEATBMQ ARMS CO., New Haven, Ct, HAVE YOU READ "Bird Nesting in Northwest Canada"? It Is acknowledged to be one of ihe most interesting works on Oology published in recent years. It describes an egging expedition through the prairie of Northwest Canada and is ju^t the book that young oologlsts delight in for it is both interesting and instructive. The book is full of illustrations of biras, their nests and eggs, as well as hunting scenes, Indian camps, animals, Rocky Mountain and praiiie scene?. The colored plates figure about 70 species of birds eggs and on this account it is a useful book for reference, la it are figured the only and authentic eggs of the Knot in the world. Other eggs figured include Golden Eagle, Swallow-tail Kite. Prairie Falcon, Duck and Pigeon Hawks, Buz- zards, Phalarope, Snipe, rare Sandpipers, Plovers. Gulls, Raven, Grosbeaks, rare Sparrows, Larks, Buntings, Grackles, Shrikes, Little Brown Crane. &c. For the next fiO days a few cloth bound copies will be sold to the readers of The Oologist at $2 each. The work is out of priat and will become rare and valuable before long as I have no in- tention of printing a second edition. It is the flrht work published on the Birds of Assinibria, and describes the nests of Little Brown Crane, American Hawk Owl, Great Northern Shrike and other birds which previously were not known to breed so far south. Send 6 cents in stamps for sample plates of Birds Eggs and note the price. J:J is for a cloth bound copy. Scores of Testimonials from noted American and European Ornithologists. For Sale by W. RAINE, Bleeker St., Toronto, Can. MIMED AlC SHEL1.S, etc. The White IVIinCnALO City Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens, $3. 50 smaller size. $2. 50 ama- teur size, $1. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells. Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $S. 100 Fossils, including fine Pish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several tine Ferns, etc., only $8. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from 3.^0 to $1, very showy. Taxidermy in all Its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIERS, Natural- ists Agency, 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, 111. CABINETS. SendlOcts for photo of our speciality^Self Locking. T perches— Oak sam- ples by mail 8c, 10c and 15c; also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels, &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 58MOtf I received more answers to my ad. The Ool- ocasT that I could not attend to them all. I exchanged over $.350.00 worth of Eggs and could have exchanged more, had I have had that. .1. W. SUGDEN, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1-^1 U' THE OOLOGIST. 3>RIGES FOR BACK NUMBERS OF THE YOUNG OOLOGIST AND THE OOLOGIST ^vill, during 1898, renifiiii^as quoted below- After which the prices of many numbers will be advanced and possibly not obtainable at any price. Should you desire back numbers to 'Complete your file now is the time to purchase. You can never obtain them for less money and possibly not at any price, as our stock ranges from only 2 to 25 copies of an issue. Prices for 1898 are as folloiivs: Nos. 18, 32 and 42 can no longer be furnished,— .35 cents each when in stock. Nos. 15, 21, 23-84, .34-35, 89, HI are 25c each. Nos. 1, 14, 88, 127, 15c each. Nos. 9, 11, 13, 16. 53, 66-67, 7.5, 76. 77, 78, 79, 80, 87, 90, 101, 113, 114, 11.5, 130, 133, 137, 10c each. ^"AU Other numbers, 5c per copy. For 50c I will send a package of twenty (80) all different back numbers, my selection. For $1 I will send a package of fifty (50) back numbers, all different, my selection. For $2 I will send a package of ninety (93) iDack numbers, all different, my selection. For S5 I will send by return mail a copy of every issue published (excepting 18, 32 and 42) — Nos. 1 to 139 inclusive. My prices for back Nos. of the Young Oolo- "GiST and OOLOGIST in volumes, are as follows : Vol. I. 18*4-5, Nos. 1 to 12 $ .60 " II. 1885, " 13 and 14 80 " III. 1886, " 15 to 23 'lacking No. 18) .35 " IV. 1887. " 21 to 25-26 45 " V. 1888, " 27to38(lackingNo.32) .50 " VI. 1889, " 39 to 50 do 42 .40 " VII. 1890. " 51to63 50 " VIII.1891, " 63 to 74 50 " IX. 1893, " 75to8i 70 ••■ X. 1893, " 87 to 98- 75 " XI. 1894, " 99 to 110 ,50 " XII. 1895, " 111 to 122 60 ^' XIII,1896, " 133 to 127 25 " XIV.189r. " 128 to 139 50 BOUND VOLUMES. Can be furnished, strongly bound in cloth and boards, as follows: Vol. I and II Young Oologist bound in one volume ?1.00 Vol. Ill and IV, The Oologist, bound in one volume, only 1.00 Vol. IX. The Oologist for '92, 298 pages of valuable and instructive Oological and Ornithological matter with many full page illustrations 1. 00 Or, if you order the three volumes at one time, we will send them by return mail for only $2.50. Every student of birds, their nests and eggs should have these three volumes In their libra- ry. The valuable information they contain, is ■worth many times the price. Address plainly FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher of XHE OOL,OOISX, ALBION, N. Y. From Extreme Nervousness. IHAT no one remedy can contain the elements necessary to cure all diseas- es, is a fact well known to everyone. Dr. Miles' System of Restorative Eemedies consists of seven distinctively different preparations, each for its own purpose. Mrs. L. C. Bramley, 37 Henry St., St. Cath- erines, Ontario, writes: "For years I suf- fered from extreme nervousness and annoy- ing constipation, developing into palpitation and weakness of the heart. I was unable to sleep, suffered much from headache, pain in my left side, palpitation and a constant feeling of weakness and prostration. I began using Dr. Miles' Nervine, Heart Cure and Nerve and Liver Pills and the Anti-Pain Pills to relievo sudden paro.xysms of pain and headache. 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MONARCH AND DERANGE BICYCLES are the product of mechanical Ingenuity. $40.00 $50.00 $60.00 Monarch Chainless SIOO.OO Send for 1898 Catalogue. Agents wanted in open territory. MONARCH CYCLE MFG. CO., Lake, Halsted and Fulton Streets, Chicago* Branches— New York. London and Hamburg. Send tsn 2-cent stamps for a deck of Monarch Playing Cards illustratins Lillian Russell, Tom Cooper, Lee Richardson, and Walter Jones. I H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, COLLECTORS, RALEIGH, N. C. First-class Skins of Birds and Mammals, Bird's Eggs, Reptiles and Batrachia both Alive and in Alcohol. Histological Ma- terial. Full data. Send stamp for lists. MEXICAN COINS. Ic, 2c and 5c nickel uncirculated, and Ic copper. Set of 4 prepaid lor only 12c. The nickel coin.s were in circula- .tion only a few months in '82-'83 may become exceedingly rare In a few years. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Providence, R. I. HEADACHEcure(lln20 minutes by Dr. Miles' Pain Pills. "One cent a dos,e." At druggists. THE OOLOGIST DEALER IN PRECIOUS STONES, OPALS, CURIOS AND FINE MINERALS. Cutting and polishing Agates and Gem Stones, and setting the same in solid gold settings a specialty. 143 Gallup St., NATURALISTS' PRINTING of all kinds on good paper cheap. Egg labels 15c per 100 small; 25 per 100 large. Fossil 10c per 100. Letter heads a5 per 100. Send copy for prices. D. H. EATON, Woburn. Mass. |i 1 1 III 11 iiiii III 1 1 11 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 II 11 III 1 1 III 1 1 11^^^^^^ I RAPID TAXIDERMY. I Providence, R. I. 1 Ten persons can learn at once as well as ^ one and bring the cost down to nothing. ^ All materials furnished. S Sold on a guarantee to give perfect sat- ^ ; isfaction or money refunded. S \ Write for Circulars, Testimonials and p I Guarantee. S ; Mention The Oologist and address. S I MORRIS GIBBS. M. D., | I Kalatiicizoo, niicli. ^ [ill iiiiiii II 1 1 1 II 1 1 III 11 1 III I III II 1 1 1 1 III III liiiiiiiii I ml PRICE LIST OP 6BMS. OPALS. Australian 50c to S40.00per kt. Hungarian 50c to 50.00 Mexican 10c to 20.00 " Opal Scarf Pins set in Solid Gold in four siz- es, as follows: 75c, 11.25, 2..50, 3.50. STUDS. Screw or Separate Back, $1.00 to $3.00. Clus- ters to order. EAR RINGS $.'.00 to $5.00 RINGS, ETC., SET TO ORDER. Prices an application for soecial settings or extra fine stones. AMETHYST, TOPAZ, MOONSTONE, BLOODSTONE, AGATE, CROCIDOLITE, &c. In all forms and sizes for Rings, Pins, Charms, 10c to $5.00. Tourmaline .50c to $1.5.00 per kt. Aquamarine .50c to 5.0J Part Exchange will be accepted in pay- ment during the next thirty days. Good Live Agents Wanted in all parts of tlie world. Liberal cash commission paid. Having a large stock on hand. I will, for a short time, sell ao lbs. of good Minerals for $1. One to forty kinds as you want then, large or small. l BE GOOD ^ It is a hard task for the average man, and re- ^ quires the showing forth of many excellent ■<, qualities. But for a Bicycle Lamp to be good, i really requires but two tilings: r 1st. To Give a Good Light. r 2d. To Stay Alight iu Spite of Wind and Jar. ► .. THE beautifully combines these two good qualities It also has the other and lesser virtues belonging to the Perfect Bicycle Lamp. Therefore as one step in your effort to BE GOOD BE WISE, and buy one of them AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY. Send for circular or, better still, send S'^>50 -v which Is the reasonable price at which we sell < one, delivered anywhere. ^ R. E. DIETZ COMPANY ^ 6o Laight Street ^ , Established 1840 NEW YORK CITY ^ THE OOLOGIST. $1.00 WORTH OF PRENIIUMS ABSOLUTELY FREE TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER TO THE OOLOGIST. r»P.^I cn'rr.eriT sSSs can puifha.'^e premiums in lots of f.Oc or over at one-half -price. BIRDS EGGS. i Western Grebe * SO i HerrlDfj Gull 35 Arctic Tern 10 Pintail 35 American Bittern 75 Virginia Rail 15 Sora 10 European Coot 20 American Coot 10 Lapwiner '-'0 Valley Patriilge 15 Col. Sharp-tailed Grouse.-. 50 Mourning Dove 05 Western Red-tail 50 Swainson's Hawk 50 American Sparrow Hawk.. 35 Short-ear Owl 1 00 Screech Owl 40 Burrowing Owl 20 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 10 Hairy Woodpecker 50 Pileated Woodpecker 1 00 Red- bellied Woodpecker. . 25 Red-headed Woodpecker.. 10 Flicker " 5 Scissortailed Flycatcher 10 Crested Flycatcher 15 Phoebe _ 05 Black Phoebe 15 Western Wood Pewee 20 Acadian Flycatcher 15 Least Flycatcher 15 SUylark 15 Prairie Horned Lark . 15 American Crow 05 Fish Crow 35 Starling 10 Dwarf Cowbird lO Red-winged Blackbird 05 Tricolored Blackbird 15 Western Meadowlark 10 Arizona Hooded Oriole 35 Orchard Oriole 05 Bullock's Oriole 10 House Finch 05 Seaside Sparrow 25 Sharp-tailed Sparrow 25 Lark Sparrow 05 California Towhee 10 Cardinal 05 (iray-tailed Cardinal 25 Lazuli Bunting 20 Painted Bunting 10 Sharpe's Seed-eater 50 Scarlet Tanager 25 Summer Tanager 25 Purple Martin 10 Barn Swallow 05 Tree Swallow 15 Cedar Waxwing 10 White-rumped Shrike 10 White-eyed Vireo 15 Bell"s Vireo 1(5 Least Vireo 35 Yellow Warbler 05 Hooded Warbler 50 White Wagtail 10 Meadow Pipit _ 10 Mockingbird 05 Catbird 05 Sennet's Thrasher 15 f3aird"s Wren 20 Parkman's Wren 15 Oregon Chickadee 35 California ' 'hickadee 50 Californiau Busn-lit 15 Wood Thrush 05 Russet-backed Thrush 15 AmericanHobin Bluebird English Pheasant English Sparrow Ring Pheasant Gopher Hammerhead Shark Red-leg Turtle Snapping Turtle Jackdaw Rook Magpie Missell Thrush Song Thrush..... English Blackbird Lesser Whiteth't Warbler Garden Warbler Reed Bunting Green Finch Willow Warbler Chiff Chaft _ Spotted Flycatcher Common Bunting Sedge Warbler Nightingale EnglishSparrow Hawk ... Great Tit English Swallow Hedge Accentor English Partidge Ostrich 1 BIRD SKINS. Redpoll Rnowfiake Tree Sr>"-rrow Slate-colored Junco Cedar Waxwing Black-and-white Warbler.. Myrtle Warble Brown Creeper SHELLS. Murex brandaris $ trunculus •' saleanus Eburna Japonica Oliva litterata, extra Cypraas nioneta Ovulum gibbosum secale Nerita peleronta, select Trochus (Livona) pica Helix fideles Bulimus Bahamaensis Partula gibba Orthalicus melanochilus . undatum Liguus fasciata Achatinella perversa imiplic'ata " spirizona " olivacea Pythea pyramidata Fissurella b^rbadensis Chama arciaella Cardinm isocardia Tellina radiata Fasclolaria distans Melongena corona SEA CURIOS. Precious coral, 1 oz. pkg, Organpipe Coral Creamy Sea Fan Yellow Sei Fan Sand Dollar Phillippian Ui'chin 35 Purple Urchin, select 25 Black Starfish 35 Acorn Barnacles 10 Keyhole Urchin , 25 Lucky Tooth of Cod 10 Hermit Crab in Shell 35 MINERALS, &c. Chiastolite Ccystals $ 15 Coquina 25 "Electric" stone .. 25 Chalcedony Geodes select.. 50 Gem Stones, small cut and polished semi-precious stones, many suitable for mounting: Sard Trilby heart intag- lioes $ 15 Opals. Mexican 15, kb, 35, bO Red Onyx 15 Black Onyx 15 Crocidolite, Tiger-eye .10, 15,25 Lapis Lazuli 35 Chalcedony, tinted 10 varigated 10 artificial tree 15 Black Ribbon Agates 10 Red Ribbon Agate 10 Carnelian 10 Assorted dozen .50 Ditto, selects 1 CO Fossil Shark Teeth 5, 10 Scaphites nodosuslO, 25, 50. 1.00 Polyp Coral 10, 25, 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Arrowheads, H doz. asst'd$ 50 Revolutionary Gun Flint 15 Dove Shell from British Guiana exhibited at World's Fair, pkg. of 13.. 25 Chines Horn Nut 10 Beetle Nut 10 Pkg Liver and Sea Beans, 15 Scorpion in Box 50 Broken Bank Bill 10 Confederate State Bill 10 Chameleon in Alcohol 25 Alligator Tooth 5. 10. 15, 25 Young Naturalist's Mar- velous Collection, '95 ed- 50 labelled specimens 1 00 Chinese Coin 05 Trap Door Spider's Nest 50 Mexican Whistle, clay 10 Tvar.unusedCubanStamps r-5 Resurrection Plant, Mex . 10 Bird Arrow Point 25 Enamel, ArmorialStickPin 25 Set. of Souverir World's Fair Tickets 1 00 PUBLICATIONS. OOLOGIST, 20 numbers 50- Nidiologist, 8 uumucr» 1 00 The Wilson Quarterly and Semi Annual -I numbers 1 CO Natural Science News, 52 back numbers 1 00 Back numbers of above pub- lications are all different and of our selection. OoLOc;iST,lhy2,bound cloth 1 03 Peuikese, a volume of 96, pages. Giving an acc't of Agassiz's summer school at Penikese Island 50 Loncks, Prothonotary Warbler SO Short, Birds of W. N. Y 25 viii THE OOLOGIST. Date 1898. FRANK H. LATTIN, PubHslier, Albion, N. Y. Enclosed find 50 cents for which send The Oologist one year, including one Exchange Coupon and $.1.00 ■worth of Premiums to the following address: iJame _. P. O. Box or Street Address County Post-office State I select the following for ray One Dollar's worth of premiums l^Remember.— That for only 50 cents every subscriber w.ill receive The Oologist. as issued, for one year, and in andilion will receive by return mail, one exchange coupon and $1.00 worth of premiums as offered on back of this blank. Write above the ones you prefer ail mark on back of this blank a few extras to be used in case we should be out of } ir first choice. This offer Avill hold good until April 15, 1898, only. BE SURE and address all of your letters and oidors plainly and in full to Fl^ANK H. LATTIIV, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. The Oologist. A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. YOL XV. NO. 4. ALBION, N. Y , APRIL, 1898. Whole No. 143 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. Brief special announcements. "Wants," "Exchanges" "For Sales," inserted In this department tor 2.5c per -2.5 words. Notices over 2.5 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted in payment at one-third list rates. What's Your Number? Examine the number following your name on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It ■denotes when your subscription expired or will expire. No. 14.3 your subscription expires with this issue 14") " " •' " June, " ]5,j ., .. .. .1 jjQy .. Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- mined. If we have you credited wrong we wish to rectify. Xlils niontli's OOI^OGISX was mailed subscribers April 11. d WANTED.- Sets of Terns, Gulls, Ducks. Rails. Grouse, Ibises, Willet, Lapwing and others common and rare. Give cash, sets, etc. ALLEN PETERSON, Woodstown, N. J. A2t SEE HERE :— On account of moving I want to close up my business at once. Send by re- turn mail complete list of wants for estimates on job taxidermy work, skins, sets and curios. Prices will satisfy you. 13. S. BOWDISH,. Phelps, N. Y. GREAT HORNED OWLS for sale. I have one pair and one egg belonging to ?ame birds $6.50. Also one female of the same species, $3.03. First class work and satisfaction guar- anteed. Cash only. Also the following A. O. U. Nos. to exchange for complete sets with data: 333 1-4, 11, 1-.5; 41S 1-7: LOS 1 8. Parties meaning business please write. C R. MOSES, Lake Crystal, Minn. EXCHANGE :--Fine Field Glasses and car- rying case, pair pearl Opera Glasses and case. Silver Watch and Rolled Gold Chain, old Pa- per Money, Stamps and Albums, hundreds of Novels. Story Papers, etc.. to exchange for fine Indian Relics, such as Pipes. Arrows, etc., also old coins and eggs wanted. Enclose stamp. R. D. HAY, Winston, N. C. A2t WANTED.— A few well marked sets of Red- tailed and Red-shouldered Hawk, Broad-wing- ed Hawk. Sharp-shinned Hawk, Osprey and other.«, also sets of Horned and Screech Owls. I can offer rare eggs from Pr>bilof Islands, Behring Sea. such as Least Auklet, Ancient Murrelet. nests and eggs of Lapland Longspur, nests and egus of Aleutian L3ucosticte, Murre- letts and 01 her rarities found In few collect- tions. W. RAINE, Toronto, Canada. SETS of 325, £90, 406, 456, 598, 617 and others, to exchange for sets not in my collection. Send list. JOHN G. SCOTT, Greenwood, Ind. FOR SALE CHEAP.— Scientific Books, state what you are interested in. "Birds," Vol. I and II, half leather, 11. .50. Send for list now. H. NEUMANN, 204 Rock St., Watertown, Wis. I HAVE SflO 00 worth of eggs in sets left for exchange: one pair oi Great Horned Owls, in fine shape will lay in captivity, one year old, for the best offer in fine tets. All letters an- swered. First come, first served. D. R.WAL- LACE, 940 No. S7 Ave , Omaha, Neb. DAVIE'S "NESTS AND EGGS," fifth edi- tion, extra cloth, and a new subsci'iption to either The Osprey or RfiC7^eation for only J2.50. The book prepaid. BENJAMIN HOAG, Steph- entown, New York. CAMERAS WANTED.— Send description. I will give rare --'ea Birds Eggs and Hawks Eggs or rare Bird Skins and cash. I particularly want a good 5x7 Camera with tripod and a good hand Camera. W. RAINE, 181 Blecker St., Toronto, Canada. WANTP:D.— Bendire's Life Histories, Vol. II. Will give rare Birds Eggs or rare Birds Skins from Northwest Canada and Prybilof Islands. W. RAINES, Toronto, Canada. DAVJD WARD, the lucky gold miner, who brought back the news of a rich find of gold on the AiP"rican side of A'aska, and who says that the rush next spring will be far down the Yu- kon on the American side, spent three years in prospectinj: in Alaska and in Ihat time only re- ceived seven letters from;home. Sincehis return •he has had more than that many thousands of letters from would-be argonauts in three months. He is now in Philadelphia, Pa., and tries to answer every inquiry concerning the Far North, its perils, rigors of climate and wonderful riches. His practical experience makes his advice highly valuable, and anyone Interested in Alaska should avail themselves of his knowledge by writing to him. FOR EXCHANGE.-Skins of 343, 3.37, 360, 368, 390, .507, 608 619, 131. Also some good sets for mounted birds. Wants flrst-clai-s skins of Quail, Grouse and Pheasants. Could use Bicycle. A. I. JOH.VSON. Taxidermist, 6.'0 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, la. a2t THE OOLOGIST. S. B. Crayton of Anderson. S. C. is now in Cordeal, Florida and expects to collect some nice sets of eggs and curios. WANTED.— Camera. 1 want a good 5x7 camera, with first class lens and shutter. Give full oarticulars with price. J. O. SNYDER, Stanford University, Cal. SETS of Ridgeway's Nos. with data: 6? 2-5, 115 1-3 161 1-4. 263 2 5, 331 1-4. 420 2-.5, 431 14. 436i/2, 439^3, 458I3, 516i.i, 523'4' to exchange for -Premo B" Camera 4x5 in good condition, or photo- graph stock, or Indian relics. Write first. C. H. SLATING, Almont. Mich. SKINS of Shore Larks and Song Sparrows wanted in exchange for western birds. Corres- pondence necessary. J. O. SNYDER. Curator of Zoological Museum, Stanford University, Cal. WANTED.— Canvas-back, Redhead, Black Duck Eggs, fresh, imblown. want correspon- dence with collectors of sets from Pennsylva- nia, Delaware, Jersey, and Southern New York. Have coins, eggs Write. BENJ. A. CARPENTER, Salem, N. J. EGGS, Coins, Indian Relics, Paper Money, etc., to exchange for singles not in mv collec- tion. Birds of Maine. Knight, new, $1.00 post paid. W. A. LEE, New Vineyard, Me. WANT folding view camera, lens and tripod, 8x10 or 10x12. Must be good, very cheap, cash. Have fine Eagle, Owl, Hawk, Buzzer a,nd Os- prey eggs. Address with stamp, F. THEO. MILLER, Matthews C. H., Va. SACRIFICE SALE.— A few more of those nicely prepared sets at greatly reduced prices In order to make room for fresh stock. Send for list W. L. & K. D. FOXHALL, Tarboro, No. Car. WANTED.— Autogragraphs of Abe Lincoln, U. S. Grant, John A. Logan. Chester A. Arthur, James G. Blaine, Thomas A. Hendricks, Allen G. Thurman, Walter O. Gresham. G. P. Banks, Thomas Nast, Kate Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Harriett Beecher Stowe. Mark Twain, Henry George, Andrew Carnegie, Eugene Field. Edward Eggleston, and any other person of note. Will pay cash or give good exchange for any good autographs. F. O. NELSON, 237 S. Main St., Butte, Mont. REMOVAL SALE BARGAINS in second- class eggs, a lot of rare eggs for little money, send for list, must clear out before May 1st. Look! Sooty Grouse, Iflc: Least Auklet. 35c: Canvas-back Duck, 10c: Gray Ruffed Grouse, 07; Sooty Grouse, 10c; White Ibis, 07; Ferruginous Rough-legged Buzzard, 25c: Red -head Duck.05: Baldpate, 10c: Northern Eiders, 06; Fulmar Petrel, 10c and 210 other good eggs as cheap, this is as chance to get some rare eggs very cheap. Send stamp for full list of first and second-class single eggs. W. R.\INE, Toronto, Canada. FIRST-CLASS Birds Skins for sale, choice Hawk Owls, JL.'^.O. Franklin's Gulls. $I..50; Am- erican Scaup, $1: Golden-eye Duck. $1; Wil- son's Phalarope. .')0c; Curlew Sandpiper, $1; Black Turnstone, $1; Black Ovstercatcher, fl.75; Canadian Ruffed Grouse, $1 00; White- tailed Ptarmigan. $J; Swainson's Hawk, $1.25; Sharp-shinned Hawk, 50c: Pigeon Hawk, .50c; Northern Waxwings, 7.5c; European Dunlin, 75c: Turnstone, .5rc; Sanderling. 3?c; 20 species of Warblers at 25c per skin: 18 species of Spar- rows, 25c per skins. Send for full list. WAL- TER RAINE, Toronto, Canada. EXCHANGE.— I will give the formula of any- proprietary medicine, preparation, i"ilet arti- cle, or anyting on the market, in exchange for eggs. H. D. VAIL. Norwalk, O. ERRATA.— In March issue in W. Raine's ad- vertisement our printer priced an egg of the California Vulture at 35 cents. It should have been $35.0 ). at which price an egg of this nearly extinct species is a great "snap."— Ed. WILL exchange sets of 30. 32, 51a, 70. 74, 7.5,79, 302, 508, for other sets or for large calibre revol- ver. J. R. MANN, Arlington Heights, Mass. VIVE Cameras to exchange, any style, for desirable sets at one- third Lattin's list. Also rare typical singles. Send list of sets and sin- gles. L. D. SUMNER, 503 State St., Madison, Wis. a5t look: For every 25 cents worth of Bird Eggs, Arrow Heads, or Curios sent me I will send recipes for making eighteen fine inks; maple syrup without maple trees and 25 other receipes. Every fifth one answering receives eggs worth 20 cents. F. W. COLLINS, Garden City, Kansas. ~ TO EXCHANGE.— Sn^eral sets each of 1. 77. 132, 203, 221, 226, c37b, 378. 390. 476, 501c. 622b and California Crow. ALTON BIGELOW, Selma, Calif. FOR SALE.— Live Bull Snakes, bird skins, mounted birds and mammals. Will collect fresh skins of birds found here, and also first- class eggs. O. S. BIGGS, San Jose, 111. A FEW mineral specimens from Klondike to exchange for curios as any kind— what have you to trade. H. STEPHEN -ON, 239 So. 25th St., Lincoln, Neb. WANTED;— To exchange Al bird skins of this locality for Al southern or western skins or sets. Send for list if you mean business. A- W. PERRIOR, 316 E. Kennedy St., Syra- cuse, N. Y. STAMPS to exchange for mounted speci- mens. The Sparrow and Warbler family more particularly wanted. W. H. SINTON, 1406 Harlem Ave, Baltimore, Md. COLLECTORS.— I have fine Natural History specimf^ns of all kinds to exchange for eggs in sets, bird and mammal skins, etc G. H. BRIGGS, Livermore. Maine. PREMIUMS:— I will sell, in amounts of 50c or over, any of the premiums offered on last page of this month's OOLOGiSTat y« price listed for ('ff«/i-(e i, $1 worth for 50c; $2 worth for $1, &c). FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion. N. Y. HAND EGG Blow-pipe for blowing and rinsing eggs. Sent prepaid with instructions for 75c or will exchange one for S3 worth of Al sets. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. M3t "WANTED.- Collectorsin tne United States and Canada to gather and prepare for me. sci- entifically, birds eggs, in large quantities, in sets with data at a reasonable price. State- what varieties in your locality and terms. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. F3t I received more answers to my ad. The Ool- OGiST that I could not attend to them all. I exchaneed over $350.00 worth of Eggs and could have exchanged more, had I have had* that. J. W. SUGDEN, Salt Lake City, Utah. FHE O0lA)GIST. BOOKS WANTED:— New or 2d hand copies of Davie's "Nests and Eggs" (any editon); Bendire's "Life Histories of N. A. Birds:" Fisher'.s "H^wks and Owls" or any standard ■work or publication on Ornithologj' or Oology. Will give good exchange or cash. FRANK . H. LATTIN. Albion, N. Y. WANTED.— For every good long handled egg drill sent me I will send a fine highly pol- ished Mexican Opal, suitable for mounting. WALTON I. MITCHELL, Parvenlr, San Mig- uel Cj., New Mexico. EXCHANGE lOXTRAORDINARY. — South- ern Northern atd Canadian birds eggs in choice sets wiih full original data to exchange for A 1 sets and large singles. Ha,ve employed competent collectors. Carefully selected sets for private collections for sale at a reasonable price a specialty. DR M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. PARTIES sending me original A No. 1 set with data, eggs not listed under 10c each. I will send a beautiful birds-eye view lithograph 41x23 of Trans-Mississippi Exposition Grounds to be held June 1 to Nov. lSt*8 together with a 36 page pamphlet with cuts and description of main buildings and other general information. Address, GEO. W. MOORE, care Union Depot Hotel, Omaha, Neb. THE DR. HAS PROOF.— 'I am thoroughly persuaded that it pays to advertise in the (jol- OGiST. I have been one of your subscribers and advertisers for years and do not hesitate to recommend the Oologist as the peer of all oth- er naturalists' magazines. DR. M. T. CLECK- LEY, Augusta, Ga. FOR SALE.— Printing Press and outfit, al- most new. Cost ?12.00. Will sell cheap. Prints card Hxb inches. Will also collect insects for teachers. For particulars address. G. £. TAFT, 320 Am. Bk. Bldg , Kansas City, Mo. BLACK Crystalized Slag. Just the thing for your collection. A beautiful novelt'' . For in- formation addre.ss. E. W. KIMBALL, 646 Marine St., Boulder, Colo. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.— I will give one pair steel climbing irons, strapped complete for !fl.25 money or better f2.50 worth of sets with date. Send list. F. W. COLLINS, Box 431, Garden City, Kans. DO J WANTED.— I want a well-bred regis- tered setter dog: weaned pup preferred. If older, must be broke. Send pedigi-ee, age, etc. Will give good trade or cash. Write at once to FOSTER MARIS, Annapolis, Indiana. READ THIS —Brewer's Sparrow, \,. 4.^c; Screech Owl, '.;. £0c; Turky Vulture. '/j. 50c; Least Flycatcher, 3;4.20c; Wilson's Thrush, }», 25c; Ruffed Grouse. 1-7. 40c: Bullock's Oriole, l-.'i, 10c: Ovenbird. '■.,. 10c: Meadow Lai k, 1-5, 15c; California Murre, 101, 12c ea(h; Am. Her- ring Gull. 1.1. SOc: prices per set prepaid. Lists free. Davie's "Nests and Eggs," fifth edition, extra cloth, and .^Cc worth any above sets, both prepaid, $2 25. Let me quote you prices on any book or magazines wanted in any branch of literature. BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, N. Y. "SHORT, "our local Dealer in Supplies and Specimens for the Naturalist, In a recent con- versation very flatteringly assured us that the Oologist was practically the only medium which bad paid him from an advertising standpoint and that in the future he should confine his ads. almost' exclusively to its col- umn?. "BURNHAM," the Opal Dealer and Manu- facturing Jeweler of Providence, R. I., recent- ly made us a very pleasant visit and in speak- ing of his past experience with advertising in the Oologist said to this effect, "That in all of his extended advertising, for. the amount in- vested the Oologist beat them all and that he sometimes thought it was the only medium that really ;;o?rf." We were convinced that he knew wliei'eof he spoke from the fact that he greatly increased his order for space and left witn us "collateral" sufficient to more than cover half a dozen pages. "THE OSPREY" is unquestionably the most popular and up-to-date illustrated Ornitholog- ical magazine in the entire world and the two- page adv. in the Oologist testifies volumes in relation to the enterprise and hustling quali- ties of its Editor and Publisher. These same two pages of advertising, as well as two more contracted for future issues of The Oologist illustrates how a Brother Publisher regards tbe Oologist as an advertising medium and adds a very substantial testimonial, to the thousands previously received as to the Oolo- GIST'S value in that direci ion. For these four pages the Publisher of the "Osprfy" pays our regular and only rate viz:— 18 40 per page or 5c per line. The Oologist has but a single rate and it makes no difference whether you wish to use 5 lines or 10 pagres of space it will cost you 5c per line for each and every inser- tion and furthermore the little 5 line adv. i» .iust as gratefully received as a full page one. 1 A A choice mixed West Indian Sea Shells, lii- J.UU varieties choice rare curiosities, 25c. 10 varieties Indian Relics, 40c. Chisel, 18c. Spade, SOc. Hoe, 25c. Axe, 37c. Celt, 1.5c. 10 choice Sea Shells, 10c. Lists free. 50c premi- um on every dollars worth sold. WILLIAM P. ARNOLD, Peacedale, R. 1. FLORIDA. Do you want to know more about it? Do you waut a home there among orange groves and pineapple plantations? If so, then send 25 cents for six months trial subscription to the Soitthernmost Periodical in the U. S. Regular subscription price is $1 per year but we are making this special offer to readers of the Oologist and in addition will send each one subscribing a set of five different Confed- erate Bills, (fac similes) and a Florida curio, or sottvenlr. Address. BISCAY^'E BAY CO., ORANGE CITY, FLA, Note our Prices on Printing. 5,1:0') Note Heads $5.00; 10,000, J9.00 5.00:) Good No. ^Envelopes 5.00; 10,000, 9.00 5,0(10 Bill Heads 5.00; 10,000, 9.C0 5,000 Statements .500; lO.WKJ, 9.0O .5.000 Busine.ss Cards 4.00; 10,000, 7.50 All work and stock guaranteed first-class. It will nay you to send vour printing to A. 1VI> EDDY," Albion. N. Y. >^f?» iv THE OOLOGIST. Lattin's Standard Catalog ol Nortli American Birds Eggs. Enlarged (contains 72 piges) revised, corrected and brought up to date of going to press- March, 1893. Giving all of the new A. O. U. changes and additions. Also divided and sub- divided into orders, snb orders families, and sub-families. Values are based on the 1893 ones which were determined by the compiler, from invaluable notes, suggestions and assistance from Major Chas. E. Bendire, J. Parker Norris. Esq., and Cap- tain B. F. Goss. In addition to these notes, which have been carefully reworked, the compiler has had suggestions from over FORTT Leading A.MERIC.A.N OoLOGisrs, all of which were care- fully considered and where advisable, adopted. La ttin's Catalogue has long been recognized by leading Oologists as the '"Standard." The compiler intends to issue a new one as soon as this edition is exhausted and desires the assistance of every working Oologist, in making values, etc. On this account he has concluded to close out this edition at the following rates, postpaid (regular price was 2.5 cents per copy.) Single copy 10 cents: 3 for 25 cents; 7 for 50 cents; 15 for $1 00. Address, FI^ANK U. LATTI^, ALBION, N. Y. THOUSANDS OF OLD BOOKS Have accumulated in the libraries of our public institutions, and those of prominent public men, both in duplicate and otherwise They cost them nothing and oft-times are valued accordingly. They are, however, both valued and "desired by specialists aad parties interested. Perhaps you or your friends may ha%'e some of the identical volumes which I desire, crowding library shelves or stowed away in garrets, doing nobody any good ; but had I them I would not only appreciate them but might' know of a dozen others who would do likewise. Look over my list of wants and and if you have anything I desire or others write ni'^. stating what you wish in exchange. and per- haps we can arrange an exchange which will be advantageous to each. I will exchange for single volumes— but the larger the exchange the better. I WANT Government and State Reports:— Annual Reports and Bulletins and U. S. Geolog- ical Survey, with F. V. Hayden in charge. Reports of Wheeli-r's U. S. Geological Surveys W. of the 100th Meridian. Reports of King's U. S. Geological Survey. Natural History of New York. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. U. S. Reports on Ethnology. Botany. -Any of Gray's or Wood's Text-Books and Publications. Lesquereaux & James. "Mosses." Tuckerman's "Lichens." Goodale's '•Wild Flowers," Hervey's 'Sea Mosses." Sar- gent's "Silva of N A." Hough's "American Woods." Geology, Mineralogy ancl Falaeontology.— Any of Dana's WincheU's. Millers or Geikie's Works Concliology.— Any of Tryon's' Sowerby's, Gill's or Woodward's Works. Entomology.— Any of Packard's, Westwood's or Comstock's Books. Any of Maynard's, -Edward's or Scudaer's Works on "Butterflies." Ornitliology, Oology and Taxidermy. —Works by any of the following; Baird, Bendire, Brewer. Brewster, cassin, Chapman. Cory. Coties, Davie, DeKay, Fisher, Gentry, Goss, Hornaday, Mcllwra'th, Maynard, Minot. Nuitall, Nehrling, Raine, Ridgeway, Shufeldt, Studer. Warren. Wilson. Also back numbers of volumes of any of the following publications: "Auk," "Ibis." "Ornithologist and Oologist," '-Nidologist." "Ospray." 'Bird Books," Pamphlets and Publications are ray specialty and I can use almost anything in that liue advantageously either in large or small lots old or new. Medical.— Quain's Anatomy, 10th ed.: Campbell's Language of Medicine; Gould's Medical Dictionary: The National Dispenstory; Gray's Anatomy: Gould's Medical Dictionary; Reese's Toxicolog\ ; Osier's Medicine; Park's or American Text Book of Surgery; Parvin's, American Text Book, or Lusk's Obsteterics; Garrigue's or Keating & Coe's Gynascology: Ingal's Laryngol- ogy; Duhring's Dermatogy: Dana's i"Jervous Diseases; Kirchoff's or Blandford's Insanity; Reese's Medical Jurisprudence. I also desire second-hand copies of any standard book, report of publication devoted to Medi- cine, Ornithology, Oology, Geology, Mineralogy. Palaeontogy, Zoology, Conchology, Botany, Microscopy, etc.. etc. I also want choice Birds Kggs in Sets \^-itli data; A Ko. i Mounted Birds and Reptiles; a Good Microscope; Indian R.elics, and choice col- lections of I'. S. or Foreign stamps or Coins, Xype^vriter, Field Glass, Collecting Guns or anything new or in good condition, suitable for a collector, naturalist, sportsman, or for a physician and surgeon. I CAN OFFER IX EXCHANGE 23 vols. Harpers in patent binders; Set of Encyclopedia Brittauica; Set Johnson's Encyclopasdiai Morocco bound; Rand & McNally's $25 Business Atlas; New Dental Chair: 3*100 Fossil Collection; $50 Mineral Collection: $1000 worth of "Surplus" Stock as offered in Natural Si^'ience News (copy for stamp) of April, 1893, consisting cf Minerals, Fossils. Shells Land and Marine Curios, Mexican Goods, Novelties, etc., etc.; 7 foot Shark from the Plant R. R. System's Exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition. Select Disarticulate Human one-half skeleton: Skeleton of Monkey: Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burmah," 7 vol.. 4000 pp. 1300 illustrations; Jeancon's "Atlas of Pathological Anatomy,'' cost $.36.75; 70 acres of Land near Vineland, N. J. ; lot in Osier City, Fla. ; Fishing Tackle: 23. also 32 cal. Rifle; 12 gauge double and single barrel shot guns: Mimeograph; Thousands of back numbers of Youths Companion, Golden Days, Forest and Stream, et"., etc.; collections in almost any department of Natural Science or Curiosities at any value from $1 to $100 and $1003 worth o"f other material. I will sell anything I offer for exchange c/'g'?/*. /"or c«»A. .Lists to all who have anything that I can use. Exchanges under $5 not solicited except for choice material or desirable books. Address, FRA:NK H. I^AXTIK, Publisher of the Oologist, AL,BI0N, N. Y. THE OOLOGIST v y\dvertise in The OOLOGIST. The ''Country Gentlemen" is the leading Agricultural newspaper in Am- 'erica, and in soliciting advertising for its columns it makes its strongest hit in the following statement: "AS TO QUANTITY OF CIRCULATION it publishes many more 'Want Ads' than all other papers combined. You doubtless know what a 'Want Ad' circulation must be a7id always isV From this same stand point the Oologist's rank among publications devoted not only to Ornithology but Natural History as well is identical to that of the County Gentlemen among agricultural publications. The "Want Ads." of this, issue, April, of the Oologist were received, unsolicited, in less than three weeks — the ones in March issue during four days— and those of February issue in less than two weeks, for a big batch of them, keep an eye out for the May and June issues. Mr. W. Raine, of Toi'onto, who has already purchased $20 worth of space in the Oologist for '98 and w^ho has patronized its columns to a greater or less ex- tent for the past ten years, under date of March 2d, writes: "I do not wish to jolly you but I must say that the'OoLOGiST is the best adver- tising journal of its kind in this continent. You should sfee the pile of letters I have received the past two weeks. Many from my old correspondents of years standing. For 1'2 years I have advertised in every Ornithological journal pub- lished in the United States, but none bring as good results as the Oologist." Marine C^^^o^ and Shel)^, I make a specialty in collecting, preparing and selling anything in the line of Marine Specimens obtainable on the Gulf Coast. I sell to the collector as well as to the Retail, Wholesale and Jobbing trade. I have unlimited facilities for obtaining anything among the "ob- tainables" — Experienced collectors and assistants — and am prepared to furnish better material at lower prices than can be obtained from other sources. When placing your orders with me you haye the satisfaction of knowing that you are obtaing your stock direct from HeadOjUarterS. I make a specialty of furnishing material for the Fair, Bazaar and Resort Trade, If there is anything you need write. By special permission I refer you to "Lattin" as to the quality of my material and my methods of do- ing business. He has placed large orders with me in the past and I now have others booked for this seasons trade. J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. Ti THE OOLOGIST. The Nidologist. By a recent purchase I have obtained all the remaining back numbers of this valuable magazine from its Publisher. The "Nid" was, during its existence, the most popular of all O. and O. publi- cations and was the pioneer illustrated "Bird" magazine. Back numbers are just as valuable to the collector today as they were on the date of issue. Now is the time to till the gaps in your tile or to obtain complete volumes. Send your list of wants and obtain prices.— I will make ihem right. I now quote, prepaid: Volume I, lacking No's 2, 4, 6, $2.00. " II, complete i.oo. '♦ III " 2.00. " IV " 1.00. Volumes I to IV, as above, 500. I will send you. a package of 14 back numbers all different, my selection for 75 cents. Or a package of 25 all different, my selection, for only $1.25. SPECIAL NUMBERS:— Vol. II, No. 3 (Nov. '94) contains colored plate of set of four eggs of Wnite-tailed Kite, 15c. Vol. Ill, No. 4-5 (Dec. '95) contains full half tone group of A. O. U. officers and members (41 in all) including Bendire, Ridgway, Coues, Allen, Brewster, Fisher, Sennet. Shufeldt, etc., etc., 25c. Vol. IV, No. 1 (Sept. '96) contains colored plates of nest and eggs of Western Evening Groshawk. 20c. Every person interested in Ornithology and Oology should possess the three special numbers— regular price 60 cents— during April will mail the three for on- ly 30 cents. I WANT and will allow good exchange or cash prices for the following issues September, October, November and December, 1893; Februar}^ 1894; September and October, 1895. Address, FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. HAVE YOU READ ''Bird Nesting in Northwest Canada"? It is acknowledged to be one of the most Interesting works on Oology published in recent years. It describes an egging expedition through the prairie of Northwest Canada and is just the book that young oologists delight in for it is both interesting and instructive. The book is full of illustrations of biras, their nests and eggs, as well as hunting scenes, Indian camps, animals, Rocky Mountain and prairie scenes. The colored plates figure about 70 species of birds eggs and on this account it is a useful book for reference. In it are figured the only and authentic eggs of the Knot in the world. Other eggs figured include Golden Eagle. Swallow-tail Kite. Prairie Falcon, Duck and Pigeon Hawks, Buz- zards, Phalarope, Snipe. ) are Sandpipers, Plovers. Gulls, Raven, Grosbeaks, rare Sparrows, Larks, Buntings, GrackU;-. Shrikes, Little Brown Crane. &c. For the next 60 days a fsw cloth bound copies will be sold to the readers of The Ootogisx at $2 each The work is out of priQt and will become rare and valuable before long as I have no in- tention of printing a second edition. It is the first work published on the Birds of Assiniboia, and describes the nests of Little Brown Crane, American Hawk Owl, Great Northern Shrike and other birds which previously were not known to breed so far south. Send 6 cents in stamps for sample plates of Birds Eggs and note the price. $2 is for a cloth bound copy. After May 1st the price will go up to $3 00. Scores of Testimonials from noted American and European Ornithologists. For Sale by W. RAINE, Bleeker St., Toronto, Can. THE 00 LOG 1ST. Special Oilers in Eggs and Supplies. BIRDS EGGS. Russet-backed Thrush.JWood Thrush, Mock- ingbird. Sennet's Thrasher, California Bush- lit, Cardinal. House Finch, Tricolored Black- bird. Cedar Waxwinp. Flicker, Black Phcebe, Cowbird, Parkman's Wren, Summer Redbird, Arizona Hooded Oriole. From now until April 30th I offer one of each of these eggs, first class and prepaid for only 50c. They list at $1.60, but as I am overstocked I offer them at less than >3 rates. MOUNTED BIRDS, ETC. Snowflake (winter snowbird) nicely mounted with glass shade, $2. Srarlet Tanager, mounted same style, $2..=i0. Indigo Bunting, same style, $1.75. Above by express. Fine Ribbon Agate, (lsl'4 inches), regular price 2.5c, now 17c. Rough specimens of genuine Fire Opal, 10c each. 10 Arrow Points, all different, 4l;c. 10 varieties semi-precious stones, all labelled, 40c. Students' Mineral Collection. .56— 5c. Mineral specimens representing Rocks, Ores, and semi-precious stones, all labelled, regular price $1.50. for only $1.13- prepaid. By express in lots of 50 or more 70c each. CURIOS. 1 each: Eye-stone, Lucky tooth of Cod, Egg of Skate, Red Sea Bean, Acorn Barnacle, Chin- ese Horn Nut, Shark's Tooth, Tarpon Scale, Mexican Watchman's Whistle, Alligator Tooth. The ten for only 33c. Ten varieties small showy shells for only 45c. CLEAN YOUR EGGS! Glass syringe in turned box, just as good work as 3.5c ones, at 18c, postpaid. CLIMBING IRONS. Best "Greeley'" Irons with forged steel spur and heavy straps, perfectly safe and the best irons made. By express for only $1.95, always previously sold at$a.50. THE BIRDS ARE COMING. 1 now offer for 30 days only, the best arseni- cal soap for skins, always sold 45c, for only 35c per piut. By express. EGG TRAYS. Any size or color at reduced rates. Write for prices stating what you want. TANNING LIQUOR For Rugs. etc. Best made. Not dangerous to handle. By express, pint 40c, quart 75c, gallon $3.50. EGG DATA BLANKS. In books with 3 inch stub (check-book style) nicely bound and well perforated. The handi - est and neatest style of data made. Light manilla covers. Regular 5 inch style: 100 in book - - - - $ 25 125 in book ----- 30 Special 8 inch style: 100 in book - - - - - 28 BOARD COVERS. 5 inch style : 100 in book ----- 35 8 inch Style : 100 in book - - - - - 38 Stubs are arranged both to keep duplicate data and to note the disposition you make of set. Postpaid at prices. Loose datas: 8 inch, 1 style, 25c per 100. 5 inch, 4 styles, 20c per 100. 2 inch, 2 styles, 15c per 100. IDENTIFY YOUR EGGS. For 30 days I offer Maynard's "Eggs of North American Birds," last edition with colored plates at $1.70, j^repaid, cloth Dound and new. SPECIMEN VIALS or Collecting Bottles for small crystals, gems, fossils, etc , but more especially for small shells, insects and microscopical objects. One hundred assorted, with corks $ 90 Davie's "Nests and Eggs of North American Birds," 5th edition, revised and enlarged. Tae long expected book is now finished and I shall be able to deliver them in a few days. Illuminated cloth binding prepaid at $'2 25 There is no discount on this work but the first 10 persons sending an order for goods including this work will receive a valuable present free. For the first 2 clubs of 2 or more copies to one address I will give a fine egg of Aplomado Falcon listing at $4. CO. This work has long been the standard and needs no description. Ridge-way's "Manual of North American Birds," new edition, revised, a standard work on our Birds now made better than ever. Leather or cloth binding, price $7.50 postpaid. SPECIAL OFFER.— Parties ordering this ^ork with other goods before M.a,y 1st, can order it at $6 84 prepaid.. New Bulletin of Eggs, Skins, etc. Just out. Send for copy. Address. ERNEST H. SHORT, Albion, N. Y. i'HE OOLOGIST. NEW ENGLAND MINERALS. Rhomb Spar, R. 1., Beryl, N. H.: Actinolite, R. I. ; Galenite. Mass. H pound specimens of either postpaid for only 10 cents; or the four for only 30 cents. The above is only a sample of the bargains I am offering in New England Minerals. Write your wants and send for lists. I handle only good fresh material— no rubbish. ROBERT BURNHAM, No. 143 Gallup St., PROVIDENCE. R. 1. GEORGE G. CANT WELL, JUNEAU, ALASKA. The spoils of an eight months collecting trip among the Islands of the Alaskan coast are now offered for sale, consisting of rare Sea Birds and Eggs, Puffins, Auks, Mitrrelets, Cor- morants, etc. , and many interesting ctirios of the SIWASH INDIANS. Full line of 5x8 views of the route to the Gold Fields. Juneau, Dyea, Skagaway, Chilkat Pass, Yukon river, etc., 51 cents each. $5 per assorted dozen. Send for Price List. N6t Shells, Marine Curios, &c. I am now readv to s apply first-class stock at low prices and should you wish anything from this section, let me hear from you. All inquir- ies will have a prompt reply. mtf J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. SHELLiS, etc. The White City Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens, $3. 50 smaller size, $3. 50 ama- teur size, $1. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $3. 100 Fossils, including fine Fish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several fine Ferns, etc., only $8. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from 35c to $1, very showy. Taxidermy in all its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIERS, Natural- ists Agency. 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, 111. CABINETS. SendlOcts for photo of our speciality— Self Locking. T perches -Oak sam- ples by mail 8c, 10c and 15c: also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels. &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 58MOtf H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, COLLECTORS, RALEIGH,' N. C. First-class Skins of Birds and Mammals, Bird's Eggs, Reptiles and Batrachia both Alive and in Alcohol. Histological Ma- terial. Full data. Send stamp for lists. NATURALISTS' PRINTING %Z\''ltl^'' cheap. Egg labels l.=ic per 100 small; 25 per 100 large. Fossil 10c per 100. Letter heads 35 per 100. Send copy for prices. D. H. EATON, Woburn. Mass. eaStEi Restored MINERALS ■ — ^IIE 'jj.izz-'j of sleeplessness can only b& I roalizcd by those who have cxperi- * ' cnccdit. nervousness, sleeplessness, 'i:.T.dachc3, neuralgia and that miserable i J2l!n3 of unrest, can surely bo cured by Dr "103' r.?storative Nervine. So certain is ^r, ::il;.3 of this fact that all druggists are .■.I'.'ir-izccl to refund price paid for the first ;y. ' i tried, providing it does not benefit. r" ; •.. Ilciiry Bruns, wife of the well known. •I •■■- ::uiith at Grand Junction, Iowa, says: I :;zs troubled with sleeplessness, nervous- ".3.-i, inadacho and irregular menstruation: -:r.riuj untold misery for years. I used. a vJ j-.is advertised remedies for female com- ;i:i'.at3 besides being under the care of local jli.-i Mans, without help. I noticed in Dr. ."il -..' advertisement the testimonial of a ■ "y cured of ailments similar to mine, and .; '..-:i never cease to thank that lady. Her- . - /.lunonial induced me to use Dr. Miles' :: rviuo and Nerve and Liver Pills, which ,torcd me to health. I cannot say enough : , r Dr.Miles'Remedies." | Dr. Miles' Remedies L rj sold by all drug- :::.jt3 undei: a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money re- funded. Book on dis- eases of the heart and nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. WANTED-BRAINS Send for our handsome views of ■D'iWio tuildings, statues and avenues of Washington City. ' This took cost us many dollars. It will be sent to you for nothing. Write us to-day. Can you think of something to patent ? Protect your ideas: they may bring you wealth. Before applying for patent, get. our liberal offers and Inventor's Assistant. Tangor i?. delay. COPP & CO., Patent Attorneys, Wajhiagton, D. 0. Dr. Miles* Nervine Restores Health THE OOLOGIST The Oologist for 1898 "Will be fully up to its old standard of the early '90"s— in fact Ave intend to make it second to none In order to accomplish this we expect the hearty cooperation of every person interested in Nature Study and Natural Sciences as well as those interested in Ornithol- ogy and Oology. In otder to enlist this cooperation we make on other pages of this issue one of the most lib- eral subscription offers ever made by an American Publisher. "Our experience as a Publisher has taught us that subscribers bring SUC- CESS. Our Offer will bring the form- er and the latter will surely follow. 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The first five "judges" naming the winning articles correctly or in nearest order will eac/i be presented with $100 worth of Pre- miums, their selection. Only subscrib- ers of the Oologist can act as judges. Both the Mss. and Judges' prizes will be awarded on May 10th. awarded for best Mss. (about 1,000 words) received between the dates of April 1st and June 1st. PiCTURKs Wanted.— We also want unpublished photos illustrating bird life. Anything of interest to the Orni- thologist and Oologist or suitable for reproduction in the columns of the Oologist acceptable. For the three best photos received before June 1st duplicates of the Mss. prizes will te awarded, viz: 1st $5.00 Cash, 2d $5.00 Books, 3d $5.00 Premiums. All photos or prints, sent in this contest shall be- come the property of the Oologist. 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Addres.>i plainly, FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, Albion, N. Y. MEXICAN COINS. Ic, 2c and ."Sc nickel imcircuiated, and Ic cojipnr. Set of 4 prepaid for only 12c. The nickel coins were in circula- tion only a few months in '82-'HS may become exceedingly rare In a few years. iiOMEKT HURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., I'rovidence, R. I. THE OOLOGHSr. ROBERT BURNHAM, DEALER IN PRECIOUS STONES, OPALS, CURIOS AND FINE MINERALS. Cutting and polishing Agates and Gem Stones, and setting the same in solid gold settings a specialty. 143 GaUup St., Providence, R. I. PRICE LIST OF GEMS. OPALS. Australian 50c to $40.00 per kt. Hungarian 50c to 50.00 Mexican 10c to 20.00 " Opal Scarf Pins set in Solid Gold in four siz- es, as follows: 75c, $1.25, 2.50, 3.50. STUDS. Screw or Separate Back, $1.00 to $3.00. Clus- ters to order. EAR RINGS $2.00 to $5.00 RINGS, ETC., SET TO ORDER. Prices an application for special settings or extra fine stones. AMETHYST, TOPAZ, MOONSTONE, BLOODSTONE, AGATE, CROCTDOLITE, &c. In all forms and sizes for Rings, Pins, Charms, 10c to $5.00. Tourmaline 50c to $15.00 per kt. Aquamarine 50c to 5.00 Part Exchange will be accepted in pay- ment during the next thirty days. Good Live Agents Wanted in all parts of the "world. I^iberal cash commission paid. Having a large stock on hand. I will, for a short time, sell 20 lbs. of good Minerals for $1. One to forty kinds as you want then, large or small. FT y^^i ti msfmm were required to perfect our nciv Lantern 7vhich we nOiV offer as some- thing extraordi- nary in the Lantern line. LI has the Railroad Lantern's rugged constitu^ lion joined to the tubular systetn, and ' the result is a splendid light-giving, zvear and abuse rcsistcr. We will, if desired, mail our special Circular of the " I'esta" Lantern ; or, upon receipt of $r.oo, ice will send you [freight prepaid ) the very best Lan- tern forgeneral serz'ice you ever saw. Why not "see it " on those terms ? Our Illustrated Catalogue is Mailed Free. R. E. 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BIRD SKINS. Redpoll $ 35 Snowflake 35 Tree Sparrow 35 Slate-colored Junco .35 Cedar Waxwing 35 Black-and-white Warbler.. 35 Mjrlle Warble 35 Brown Creeper 35 SHELLS. . Murex brandaris $ 25 tiunculus 25 saleanus 10 Eburna Japonica 25 Oliva litterata, extra 20 Cyprase moneta 10 Ovulum gibbosum 15 secale _ 10 Nerita peleronta, select 10 Trochus (Livona) pica 25 Helix fideles 13 Bulimus Bahamaensis 15 Partula gibba 10 Orthalicus melanochilus .. 25 undatum 25 Liguus fasciata 15 Achatinella perversa 10 uniplicata 10 " spirizona K) olivacea 10 Pythea pyramldata 15 Fissurella barbadensis 10 Chama arcioella 15 Cardinm isocardia 15 Tellina radiata 10 Fasclolaria distans ., 10 Melongena corona 15 SEA CURIOS. Precious coral, 1 oz. pkg. 25 Organplpe Coral 10 Creamy Sea Pan 35 Yellow Se >. Fan 35 Sand Dollar 10 Phillippian Urchin 35 Purple Urchin, select 25 Black Starfish _ 35 Acorn Barnacles 10 Keyhole Urchin 35 Lucky Tooth 01 cod 10 Hermit Crab in Shell 35 MINERALS, &c. 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Giving an acc't of Agassiz's summer school at Penikese Island 50 Loncks, Pro thonotary Warbler .50 Shf.rt, Birds of W. N. Y.._ 25 Lattin's Standard Egg Cat 25 xii THE OOLOGIST. Date 1898. FRANK H. LA.TTIN, Publisher, Albion, N. Y. Enclosed fiad 50 cents for wiiioh send The Oologist one year, including one Exchange Coupon and $1.00 ^ivorth of Premiums to the following address: Name P. O. Box or Street Address ... County Post-Office State I select the following for ray One Dollar's worth of premiums ■^"Remember. — That for only 50 cents every subscriber will receive The Uologist, as issued, for one year, and in addition will receive by return mail, one exchange coupon and $1.00 worth of premiums as offered on back of this blank. Write above the ones you prefer and mark on back of this blank a few extras to be used in case we should be out of your first choice. This offer will liold good until June 1, 1898. BE SURE and address all of your letters and orders plainly and in full to FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. THE OOLOGIST. xiii Hcsts anb (Eggs of TCottl} (Xmmcan ^irbs : i-:- By Oliver Davie. Fifth edition; Revised, augmented and profusely illustrated, 560 pages, octavo, extra cloth. Price, prepaid to any part of United States or Canada, S2.25. We have received word from the Publishers that the long promised "Davie's" is at last ready for delivery. Every "Bird Man" must have a copy. It is an absolute necessity — without a copy you are, from an Oological standpoint, as much at sea as a carpenter would be without saw or hammer. The price is $2.25 net, prepaid. No reduction, no deviation. If, however, you order a copy of us on or before June ist and enclose 45 cents additional (to cover mailing expenses) $2.70 in all, I will send you prepaid: One copy Davie's "Nests and Eggs" ^2 25 One copy "Penikese," bound 50 One copy Short's Birds of Western New York 25 Ten copies of "Nidiologist" (including one containing colored plate) I 40 One copy Lattin's Standard Egg Catalogue 25 Subscription to Oologist, one year 50 One Exchange Notice, or Coupon good for one in Oologist 25 . ^5 40 The regular price for above is $5.40, but until June ist I will send entire lot prepaid for only $2.70. No change or variation in the combi- nation. Remit in most convenient manner. Address at once, plainly and in full. FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. A COMPLETE SET OF FOREST AND STREAM AT A BARGAIN. A complete set of the "Forest and Stream" 47 Volumes bound, with paper sides and leather backs, and the remaining numbers unbound. The Set is imper- fect in the following particulars, which can be corrected for a small outlay. The Backs of Volumes 1 to 6 are not an exact match for the rest. Volumes 8 and 9 ai*e bound in one and Volumes 10 and 11 are bound in one. Volume 15 lacks the index. The entire set is offered for only ^ 1 00 cash. An exceptional opportunity for some l^ibrary, Sportsman's Club, or private individual. Address, FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. CI^o ©sproy. Live Birds studied and photographed in their native haunts. Each Number a Revelation to the Bird Lover. FULiL OF GOSTIaY ILLxUSTRAXIONS. Printed on fine enamel coated paper. Volume 3, (September, '97 to June '98) will make the best bird-book for the Ornithologist and Oologist that can be parchased for many times One Dollar. THE APRIL OSPREY Ready April 1st, among the contents are ' AUDUBON'S STORY RETOLD, By Sara A. Hubbard, illustrated with three portraits of Audubon, and the reproduction of an original painting now in the possession of the family. The article results from the recent publica- tion of Audubon and His Journals, which was written by Audubon's grand-daugh- ter, Miss Maria R. Audubon, and is, perhaps, the only authentic work of impor- tance on Audubon. 0-JA\¥-AW-NE (The Bluebird), by Chief Pokagon, in the April Osprey, is the third article by this celebrated venerable Pottowattomie Chief to have ap- peared, originally, in The Osprey. The two fdrmer articles were furnished by Chief Simon Pokagon himself; this one Avas purchased by Mr. William Brewster and afterwards presented to The Osprey by him. Part One of W. E Louck's LIFE HISTORY OF THE PROTHONO- TARY WARBLER also appears in the April number, and is one of the most interesting features of the present volume, as far as the text is concerned. With Part One is a large map showing the distribution of the Golden Swamp Warbler in Illinois. Accompanying Part Two will be photographs showing nesting sites, etc. These photographs will be selected from a large series obtained by a party sent out to secure them for The Osprey. A YOUXG BURROWING OWL, a remarkably fine photograph from life, taken by Mr. H. W. Nash in Colorado, will be the cover illustration for April. THE FINEST BIRD PHOTOGRAPHS APPEAR IN THE OSPREY. Have YOU some of th? finest? If so. THE OSPREY will be pleased to hear from you. CDUr'TXT For one month, if this ad. is mentioned, we will send PDUU IjrijLjlAL with each new $1.00 subscription, begiiming ivith P 11 Pj Fi J-ivxj.Au j^pril^ the January, February, and March Ospreys a^jjjj (The offer will will positively expire after 30 days.) All 97 numbers arc advanced in price. '96 numbers are out of print, The Osprey Co., 141 East 25th St., New York City. ^HE OBPREY. "The Leading Monthly for Bird Students in America." You \%'ill be tempted to sav something as foIIo\%^s: (A FEW OCTOBER, '97 SAMPLES.) "The Osprey. — That our American cousins are to the front in enterprise is indisputable. They led the way in gen- eral literaiuae -with such beautifully got up magazines as Scribne7''s Monlhhi and the Century, now they are 'shew- ing us the way,' with a natural history magazine, which for paper aud print- ing surpasses anything done in Eng- land. Not but what we can do it if the public will only support us. But unfor- tunately natural history is not suffi- ciently popular in England to make a really got up magazine pay its expens- es, else we would ourselves produce one quite as good as this beautifully printed and illustrated American mag- azine for ornithologists." — The Natur- alist's Chronicle, London. "Recent numbers of The Osprey are remarkable for the iutei'esting illusti-a- tions found in ihem.. -Forest and Stream. "I am much impressed by the beauty of the photographs which you repro- duced."— Dr. Geo. Bird Grinnell, editor Forest and Strean, New York. "I can't call to mind words to express the praise due The Osprey — and you in giving it to us." — Benjamin Hoag, Stephentown, N. Y. "The Osprey now has subscribers in every State in the Union and Canada; a few in England, Scotland, Germany, Austria, Australia and Costa Rica. Its list of public libraries is constantly growing; it already has some, such as the Carnegie library of Pittsburg; De- partment of Agricultural library of Washington; Sacramento Free library of Sacramento, Cal , etc. Articles by the best known popular science writers in America are being secured for the coming year. Many college professors and competent critics pronounce it the best monthly magazine published for the student of birds; and it is finding a place in the cultured homes all over America, where there is a love of na- ture."— Republican- Register, Galesburg, 111. "Just the other day I was looking over the tile of Volume I and realized "It is the most valuable piece of or- nithological literature in my libi'ary. I am sui-e that I will never be without your paper as long as it lasts. It is not only a luxury but a necessity." — T. L. Hankinson, Agricultural College, Mich. "I shall certainly try to be a constant subscriber hereafter for I think The Osprey is by all odds the finest publica- tion of its kind in the country. May it as it wins its way into the many homes of macy states be a power in develop- ing a gi'eater protection for and to our little brothers of the air." — W. G. Cole- man, Boone, Iowa. "Often hear it spoken of as the best ornithological monthly." — P. J. Me Cook, Hartford, Ct. "I would not be without it for twice the price." — Harry K. Pomeroy, Kala- mazoo, Mich. "The dollar a year we send you does- n't begin to pay for what we get." — V. H. Chase, Wady Petra, 111. "It is most valuable, and am sure it will be extremely helpful to us in our works of the Audubon Society," — Miss J. E. Hammond, Sec'y, Schaller, Iowa. "You can count on me as long as The Osprey Hies.''— T. D. Perry, Savannah, Ga. "I am growing more and more in love with it each month. The illustra- tions are alone worth the amount of subscription. * * ^ What ornithol- ogists can agord to be without it." — James Savage, Bugalo, N. Y. "One of the prettiest and most prac- tical ornithological journals America, has yet seen. It has deserved success."' —Bulletin Mich. Ornithological Club. "The Osprey is our favorite here in Detroit."— W. F. Warren, Detroit, Mich. "I am so well satisfied with The Os- prey .that I must remit a year's sub- scription. It is without doubt one of the best monthlies of its kind." — Wm. Blake, Ross, Herefordshire, England. what you are giving the public for $1 — C. T. Barlow, Santa Clara. Cal. Every Ornithologist or Oologist, not a subscriber, should not fail to send $1.00 subscription, or at least 10c for a sample. THE OSPEY CO., 141 East 25th St., New York City. xvi THE OOLOGIST. Easter "Snaps." Dm ing the mouth of April (qo later) 1 ofl"er the following Specimens, Publi- ■cations, &c.at al)out oneiialf their value and at prices which arii ]}roJillcss to my- self. I make this offer iu order to induce the patronage of collectors not already dealing with me and in order to impress upon them that both my material and prices are right for 1 handle a full line of spot-imets and supplies in all of the various departments of the Natural Sciences and if there is anything you need ■write me and gel my prices before purchasing elsewhere. Remit in most conven- ient manner and address plainly, ERNEST H. SHORT, ALBION, ORLEANS CO., N. Y. [At prices (juoted below the articles olfere.l are by Freight or Express at pur- chasers expense. When cheaper by mail I will advise you belore shipping. Sat- isfaction guaranteed or money refunded.] MOUNTED BIRDS, &c. Baltimore Oriole $ ~0 Red-faced Oi-ange Oriole 3 10 Nuttall's Woodpecker 1 10 Rusty Blackbird ' 90 California Woodpecker 1 10 Brown Thrasher 70 Screech Owl 1 70 " young 110 Yellow Warbler 70 Black-throated Green Warbler 85 Purple Grakle 1 Oo Great Northern Shrike, killing Magnolia Warbler 1 70 Lazuli Bunting 8."> Spotted Sandpiper 85 Purple Sandpiper 90 American Woodcock, young 1 25 '• '• iu down 105 American Sparrow Hawk, young 1 25 " '■ iudo.vn 1 15 Saw-whet Owl 2 20 CaliforDia Partridge 1 10 Marsh Hawk 2 35 Old Squaw 2 10 Flicker 1 10 BlueJay 1 10 Grey Squirrdl eating nut 1 40 Alligator, 3,'^ ft 1 85 4!4 ft 4 75 Sawfish, you Gg, 23 iu 160 Swellflsh, 20 in 2 10 EGGS. Ostrich, African $ 75 Emeu 1 35 Crocodile 60 Great Auk (east) 70 ^-Epyoruis (cast) 13 in long, will hold two gallons water) 1 70 Moa (casi) 1 35 Snappinsi Turtle, 1-16. with data 80 Red-leg Turtle, 1-8, with data .50 INDIAN RELICS, &c. Sioux Catliuite Pipe of Peace SI >^5 Sioux War Club 1 95 Moqui Rain God, 12 in 1 35 Moccasins 1 15 Children's Moccasins 70 Mexican Zarepa. 2x5 ft 2 15 South Sea Islander's Dress 1 35 Mexican Water Bottle, 10'/^ in 1 05 Mexican Water Bottle, 7 In 90 CORALS, &c. Mushroom Coral, 8 in 55 Honey Comb Coral,- 8 in 65 Cabbage Coral. 8 In 1 20 Brain Coral, 13 in 2 10 Propeller Coral. 10 in 1 05 Palm Coral. 16 in.... 110 Organpipe Coral, 7 in 55 Venus Cup Sponge, 2 ft high 4 25 MISCELLANEOUS. Texan Steer Horns, elegantly polished and mounted with plush and nickel, 2 feet tip to tip (3;o feet following of curves). 12 35 Pair 12 in. Buffalo Horns, polished, un- mounted .^. 1 40 Shark's Jaw. open 90 Swordfish Sword, 3ft 1 10 Sawfish Saw, 3ft 1 40 Polished Turtle or Tortoise Shell, Nassau, 9xl4in 3 90 Polished specimens of Landscape Marble and Mexican Onyx. Regular price $1 to J3 each— at Vi these prices, which is actual cost of material. Arrowheads, 100 (no less) aPsorted 2 20 Gem Stones. 100 (no less) assorted 2 15 BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS. The Oulogist, Vol. I to XIV, lacking only 9 issues of a complete file of all num- bers issued to 9^ $1 90 Tn.e Nidiologist, Vol. I, 3 No's; Vol. II, lacks No. 1: Vols. Ill and IV complete; Lot.. 1 80 OoLOGiST, 189 i, bound in cloth 45 Bureau Ethnology Reports, Powell. Six volumes all different, (usually sold at $2 50 to $5 each). Lot " 5 50 U. S. Geological Survey, Annual Reports, (regular price about f2 each). 10 vols., all different 5 50 Cope, Vertebrata of Tertiary Formations, 4to, 1043 pp, 131 plates 3 10 Lesquereaux, Cretaceous and Tertiary Floras, 4to. 2a5pp, 60 plates 3 10 Leidy, Fresh Water Rhizopods of North America, -Ito. 33.5pp, 48111., 1190 col. figs 2 10 Scudder, Tertiary Insects of North Amer- ica. 4to. 73 Ipp, 28 plates 1 70 Davie, Methods in the Art of Taxidermy. . 3 80 CABINETS for Coins or small specimens, .size 12x14x14 in each containing 12 drawers and each drawer containing 80 compartments (2^4xl>^xH iu), strongly made and nicely finished $ 90 TKAYS in flat, a bundle of £00 with wrap- pers, size 6x4x% In., per bundle $ 55 :^ The Oologist. A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. VOL XV. NO. 5 ALBION, N. Y., MAY, 1898. Whole No. 144 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. Brief special announcements. "Wants,' "Exchanges" "For Sales," inserted In this department for 2.>c per 2.=) words. Notices over 2.5 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional word. No notice inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted In payment at one-third list rates. What's Your Number? Examine the number following your name on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It denotes when your subscription expired or will expire. No. 143 your subscription expires with this issue H5 •' •■ •• '• June, " 150 '■ " " '• Nov., " Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- mined. If we have you credited wrong we wish to rectify. This iiioiitli's OOI^OGIST was mailed subscribers Juiie 14. RAPID TAXIDERMY.— One can ea.sily do up \i dozen birds in an afternoon with Oriental embalming process. Send for circulars. OR- IENTAL EMBALMING CO.. Box 92, New Hamburg, Ontario. NOTICE.—! have fine sets of Hawks, Owls. &c.. such as 337. 368, 37.^, 343, to exchange for other good sets, not now in my collection. JASPER BROWN, Box 77, Norway, Iowa. COLLECTORS who have 1st class sets for sale send lowest cash price. A. E. PRICE, Grant Park, 111. HAND EGG Blow-pipe for blowing and rinsing eggs. Sent prepaid with instructions for 75c or will exchange one for J3 worth of Alsets. DR. M. T. CLECKLEV. 457 Greene St.. Augusta, Ga. M3t VIVE Cameras to exchange, any style, for desirable sets at one third Lattin's list. Also rare typical singles. Send list of sets and sin- «les. L. D. SUMNER, .503 State St., Madi.son, Wis. a5t FOR EXCHANGE.— Telegraph outfit. Bat- tery, sounder and key, nearly new, for good camera or offers In Gray's Manual or Davie's "Nests and Eggs." C H. SLEIGHT, Union Grove, Wis. FOR SALE or EXCHANGE.— Shakespeare's life and complete works with glossarlal notes; one vol. 8 vo. full sheep.— /?yc«. Eggs of 289, 316. 412, 474b. . 511b, 611, 705 and others. LES- TER I. BROWN, Box 205, Perrj', Iowa. WANTED.- Rare and odd built birds nests. Write me what you have to offer and lowest cash price. J. E. GROSJEAN. Lima. Ohio. FOR SALE.— The Nidiologist, complete, in fine condition. Volumes 1. 2 and 3 bound with klip file and binder, $8. MILTON C. HOWE. Monson, Mass. FOR EXCHANGE.— Vol. I Natural Science News and first six vols. Oologist lacking eight numbers. Wanted: sets, skins or photograhs of birds and eggs. F. B. McKECHNIE,66 Bird St., Dorchester, Mass. TO EXCHANGK.— 1 old relic muzzle loading cap fire pistol. 125 years old at least, Allen pat- ent, for best offer in egg sets with data. R. WALLACE, 910 No. 27 Ave., Omaha, Neb. COINS.— I wtll send 10 foreign coins, all dif- ferent, in good condition for 25c. JOHN R. PHILLIPS, 344 E. Court St.. Jackisonville, 111. EXCHANGE:— Fine Field Glasses and car- rying case, pair pearl Opera Glasses and case. Silver Watch and Rolled Gold Chain, old Pa- per Money, Stamps and Albums, hundreds of Novels. Story Papers, etc.. to exchange for tine Indian Relics, such as Pipes, Arrows, etc.. also old coins and eggs wanted. Enclose stamp. R. D. HAY, Winston, N. C. A2t FOR EXCHANGE.— Skins of 343, 337, 360, 368, 390, .507, 608, 619, 131. Also some good sets for mounted birds. Wants first-class skins of Quail, Grouse and Pheasants. Could use Bicycle. A. I. JOHVSON. Taxidermist, 620 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, la. a2t FOR ^ALE.— 3501st (lass sets, full data, at about ^4. I atalogue rates. Have to dispose of them. W, ite for list. S. B. CRAYTON, Town- ville, Anderson Co., S. C. WANTED.— Sets with, nests. Will exchange .singles of Osprey, Nightliawk, Stormy Petrel, or steel engraving of Audobon for each set. W. P. YOUNG, Jamaica Plain. Mass. WANTED.— Volumes 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Oolo- gist unbound. Will give in exchange fine sets with full data. P. D. GETTY, 301, N. Main St., Bloomington, 111. FOR EXCHANGE:— 3-4 2-5581,3-3.563. 3-4 687, 2 4 2-3 652. 1-5 4 3.529. 1-4 466, 1-4 4.5t), 1-4 507. 5 4 704. 3-3 2-4 498, 1-4 7.56. 3 4 761. 1-4 488. Eggs all A 1 with data, for eggs of other rbcalitles. with full data. All letters answered. M. J. CON- WAY, .584 6th Avp., Lansingburg, Reus. Co., N. Y. i7j^^ THE OOLOGIST. CHEAP STAMPS.- 4 var. Argentine, 5c; 5, Cuba, 5c: 15, Holland, 10c; 17. Italy, 10c; 5. Mex- ico, 5c; 7, Salvador, 10c; 11. U. i"., 5c. List of sets, &c. free. 17 var. western bird skins, $1, postpaid. F. T. CORLESS, Logan, Ore. M4t WANTED.— Al sets and skins from Birds of this locality for same of other locality. My specimens will be nearly all of the perching birds and of this years collecting. Corres- pondence desired. Send list of what you have for, and what you want in exchange and I will send my .list to you. ROBERT KNETSCH, Terra Cotta, McHenry Co., 111. WANTED.— To exchange first class Southern California eggs for egg drills, embryo hooks, scissors, forceps and data blanks. BURNELL FRANKLIN, Pasadena, California. BARRED OWL 1-2 75c, 1-3 $1.20; Great Horn- ed Owl 1-3 75c; Whippoorwill 1-2 81.?,t>; Red- tailed Hawk 1-2 35C; Woodcock 1-3 $1.^0. Many other bargains. C. B. VANDERCOCK, Odin, Ills. FOR SALE.— Price per egg; 75 2-1, 12c; 117 .5-1, lie; 195 1-4, 10c; 202 1-4, 5c: 220 1-4. 6c; 269 7-4, 6c ; 493 5-4, 3c. Will exchange 117, 269, 493 for desirable sets. D. WILBY, Weston, Ont. EXCHANGE.— First class foreign stamps for minerals, shells and sea curiosities. Only A 1 specimens wanted. CHARLES S. CHEV- RIER, Trenton, New Jersey. WANTED.— One set each. Am. Woodcock, Loon, Pigeon Guillemot. Am. Magpie. Gannat, Ibises, Whippoorwill. Chuckwillswidow, Wil- let. Prairie Hen and Florida Crow. Can offer sets. W. A. MEAD, Carmel, N. Y. WANTED.— Eggs and Skins of Waders and Warblers with complete data. Will give good exchange in other eggs and skins. Corres- pondence solicited. ADIN BURDICK, Lake City, Minn. BIRD SKINS from this section of Georgia, to exchange for those found north and west- west of Mississippi river preferred. Nothing for sale. ROBT. WINDSOR SMITH, Kirk- wood, Ga. M2t WANTED sets of eggs in exchange or for cash. Can offer rare sets Ducks. Hawks, Owls, Warblers. Want Eagles, Poorwills, Warblers, Sparrows and commoner kinds. E. ARNOLD, Battle Creek, Mich. WANTED.— Sets of the Linncolae for 518 5-4, 446 1-4 1-5, 505a n-3 etc. Will sell choice sets and singles cheap for cash. HARRY DUNN, Fullerton, Orange Co., Calif. TO EXCHANGE.-First class Sets of Nos. 194, 273. 373b. 375, 325, 365, 385, 443, 487, 552a. 703, 420a. S89b, with datas. All letters answered. GEORGE W. LOWRY, Abilene, Tex. M2t FOR EXCHANGE.— What have you to ex- change for mounted Mule Deer, also Virginia Deer. Also some nice Deer Heads, one in the velvet. One eight-legged pig with one head; a genuine freak. A. I. JOHNSON, Taxidermist, 620 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, la. m2t I HAVE Whippoorwill eggs and other eggs. Cheaper for cash than you ever did buy, or will exchange for a fine watch. Send stamp for list of many good things you will want. Every one who answers this advertisement and sends stamp for list I will send a present. I mean to sell cheap. G. W. ROBINETTE. Flag Pond. Va., U. S. A, (Reference Merchants Ba nk).m2 FOR SALE.— My entire collection of sets, all' first class with data, for best offer. 56 varieties- including 1. 289. 337. 368, 375, 417 &c , or will ex- change for Coues Key, Goss' Birds of Kansas, Ridgeway's Manual and part cash or any good books. List for stamp. H. S. SOWERS, St, Francisville, Clark Co., Mo. FOR EXCHANGE or SALE at very lovr rates the following species in fine sets with data; 40. 165. 179. aul. 307, 235. 243, 288, 293a, 301, .302,311.313.318,319 ,326. .S27. 329. 335. 339a, 348, 351, 3,54a. 359.1.362. 389. 383, 410, 419, 421, 432, 439, 4S7. 513. .5.54, ,^94, 602, 666. 7C6. 707, 708. 736. 754, 7.-9a. THOMAS H. JACKSON, 343 E. Biddle St., Westchester, Pa. LOOK.— The following for exchange or pre- paid at prices quoted. Giant Purple Urchin (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) Test 30c, a- few with spines; Small Urchins, spines (excel- lent) (25c, same. Test, U'c; Starfish Asferisas ochracea 15c, Astropecten stdlatvs 20c, Asteriscus ininiatvs lOc; Sand Dollar 5c, Cocoons Platy- samia cecropiahc: Shells, volumes of Magazines, Insects. Want Crustacians, Shells, Eggs, Na- tural History material. Excellent Guitar for Banjo. EDWIN H. DRAPER, 6700 Butler St.,. Station O, Chicago, 111. WANTED.— Well marked sets of Red-tailed- and Redshoiildered Hawk, Broad-winged Hawk, also several sets of Cedar Bird, Red- eyed Vireo, Yellow and Black-billed CuckoOi Meadow Lark, American Bittern, Field Plov- er, Kildeer, Downy Woodpecker, Loon, Tufted Puffin, Cassin's Auk, American Woodcock, Pigeon Guillemot. Pied-billed Grebe, Blue and. Green-winged Teal. Sooty Tern, Royal* Tern, Caspian Tern, Bridled Tern, Leach's Petrel, Wood Duck, Hooded Merganser, Bald Eagle, Sparrow Hawk, Screech Owl, Purple Gallinule,. Sandhill Crane, Willet, Californian Quail, Bob- White, Passenger Pigeon, Turkey Vulture, Barred Owl, Great Horned Owl, Flicker, Chuck- willswidow, Poorwill, Ruby-throated Hum- mingbird and nests, Prairie Horned Lark, Os- prey. Painted Bunting, Tree Swallow, Purple- Martin, Mocking Bird, Cactus Wren, Robin and others. I can offer sets from Iceland, Lab- rador, Northwest Canada and Alaska such as^ No. 2. 13. 20, 21, 27, 37, 40, 51, 51a, 56, 71, 79, 86, 90, 104, 117, 119, 132, 136, 138, 142, 143, 146, 147, 151, 152, 155, 1.59, 160, 172, 195, 217, 223. 269, 375. 285. SOI, 312,. 3.3.5, 385, 431. 473, 477a. 487, 493. .528, 694. 698, 721b, 739, 765 and many otherss. I have thousands of eggs to offer in exchange. WALTEIt RAINE, 181 Bleecker, St., Toronto, Canada. WANTED.— Lists of eggs for sale by reliable- collectors. Do not care to exchange this year. Many eggs wanted, especially Californian. LEE CHAMBERS, Santa Monica, Cal. M2f7, EXCHANGE EXTRAORDINARY. — South- ern, Northern and Canadian birds eggs iD' choice sets with full original data to exchange for A 1 sets and large singles. Have employed competent collectors. Carefully selected sets for private collections for sale at a reasonable- price a specialty. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY. 4.57' Greene St., Augusta, Ga. MSt EXCHANGE.— English Setter Pups, male,, one month old. fine blood, beautifully marked, father A 1 retriever, mother trained ; will ex- change for birds eggs in sets or high-class fan- cy pigeons valued at $15.00. M. T. CLECK- LEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga, M2t GOLDEN EAGLE ! I have a first-class egg with data, scientifically prepared, collected last February. Will sell for low price of $4. Its a beauty. R. S. DANIELS, Nordhoff Ventura Co., Calif. THE OOLOGTST. WANTED TO Purchase for Cash, or the best of exchange if preferred, first class complete sets of the following species in any quantity. All species of Eagle, Kite, Falcon, Crane,Loon, Tropic Bird and Albatross, Hooded Merganser, Wood Duck. Roseate Spoonbill, Flamingo, Sharp-shin Hawk, Broad-wing, Saw-Whet Owl, Prairie Falcon. Duck Hawk, Whip-pooi-will, Chuck-wills-widow, Parauciue, and any other species new to my collection, especially species of Petrels, Auklets, Murrelets, Warblers, Wad- ers, &c. All sets miist be A 1 with full data. I also desire the following species in large quantities, for which I will offer choice sets from my series, or will give rare or common foreign "in sets or singles or series if desired. A. O. U. Nos. 6, 27. 61, 67, 77. 79. 106. 1.39, 140, 190, 191, 202, 214, 218, 263, 273, 2H9, 294, 337. 339, 347a. 368, 373, 37.=), 387, 388. 390, 394, 452, 461, 467, 471, 494. 498, 501. 507. .554, 560, 611, 619, 622, 624, 628, 703, 703, 704. 74.3a, 761. Many others are wanted too numerous to mention. Have also many rare and desirable singles on hand and can always offer a very full list of prime sets, either Amer- ican or foreign. Have over 3ovo papers and periodicals to offer including complete vols, of the Auk. 0. fiti'I 0., yidologist, Osprey, Oolo- GisT, &c. I also require many back numbers to complete my files. Will be glad to answer all communications. C. W. CRANDALL, Lock Box 3, Woodside, Queens Co., New York. Marine Curios and Shells. I make a specialty in collecting, pre- paring and selling anything in tiie line of Marine Specimens obtainable on the Gulf Coast. I sell to the collector as well as to the Retail, Wholesale and Jobbing trade. I have unlimited facilities for obtain- ing anything among the "obtainables" —experienced collectors and assistants — and am prepared to furnish better material at lower prices than can be ob- tained from other sources. If there is anything you need, write. J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. NATURALISTS' PRINTING ^fo^'^tl^"" cheap. Egg labels 15c per 100 small; 25 per 100 large. Fossil 10c per 100. Letter heads 35 per 100. Send copy for prices. D. H. EATON, Woburn. Mass. rMITTTTO Fruits, Shells, Corals, Beans, V^UHcIxA. Pebbles. Gems, etc.. Queer Relics. Fossils, Eggs. Minerals, Coins, stamps. 40 Queer Tliins:s the world over, post free for two dimes I ALLEN SEELEY, p. O. Box 72, KEMPTVILLE, ONTARIO^ Do You Raise Them? If you send for a free sample of Tropic Plant Food, the great plant fertilizer that stimulates growth and makes plants bloom. How to make a Pansy Bed and sample of Food on re- quest, address, THE YUKON MFG. CO., NEBRASKA CITY, NEB. The largest mfrs. of plant food in the world. AliyrnAlO shells, eic. The White IVIIIlCnALO City Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens, $3. 50 smaller size, $2. 50 ama- teur size, $1. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $3. 100 Fossils, including fine Fish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several fine Ferns, etc., only $8. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from 35c to $1, very showy. Taxidermy in all its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIERS, Natural- ists Agency, 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, 111. CABINETS. Send loots for photo of our speciality— Self Locking. T perches— Oak sam- ples by mail 8c, 10c and 15c: also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels. &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 58MOtf NEW ENGLAND MINERALS. Rhomb Spar, R. I., Beryl, N. H. : Actinolite. R. I. ; Galenite. Mass. M pound specimens of either postpaid for only 10 cents; or the four for only 30 cents. The above is only a sample of the bargains I am offering in New England Minerals. Write your wants and send for lists. I handle only good fresh material— no rubbish. ROBERT BURNHAM, No. H3 Gallup St., PROVIDENCE, R. 1. That Other 100 Readers of The Oologist who have not yet subscribed for ^.THE OSPREY Should send 10 cents for the May number, -^^THEN THEY W^ILL — -^- Largest Circulation to Ornithologists and Oologists. THE OSPREY CO., 141 E. 25th ST., NEW YORK CITY. THE OOLOGIST. ROBERT BURNHAM, DEALER IN PRECIOUS STONES, OPALS, CURIOS AND FINE MINERALS. Cutting and polishing Agates and Gem Stones, and setting the same in soHd gold settings a specialty. 143 GaUup St.. Providence, R. I. PRICE LIST OP GEMS. OPALS. Australian 50c to $40.00 per kt. Hungarian 50c to 50.00 Mexican lOc to 20.00 " Opal Scarf Pins set in Solid Gold in four siz- ^s, as follows: 75c, $l.li5, 2.50, 3.50. STUDS. Screw or Separate Back, $1.00 to $3 CO. Clus- ters to order. EAR RINGS $3.00 to $5.00 RINGS, ETC., SET TO ORDER. Prices an application for special settings or extra fine stones. AMETHYST, TOPAZ, MOONSTONE, BLOODSTONE, AGATE, CROCIDOLITE, &c. In all forms and sizes lor Rings, Pins, Charms, 10c to $5.00. Tourmaline 50c to $15.00 per kt. Aciuamarine 50c to 5.00 Part Exchange will be accepted in pay- ment during the next thirty days. Good Live Agents Wanted in all parts of the world. Liberal cash commission paid. Having a large stock on hand, I will, for a vshort time, sell 20 lbs. of good Minerals for $1. One to forty kinds as you want then, large or small. e, Followed by Heart Disease, Cured by DR. MILES' HEART CURE. • R. C. C. SHULTS, of Winterset, Iowa, inventor and manufacturer c- Ehults' Safety Whiffletreo Couplinr, writes of Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. "Two year.3 ago an attack of LaGrippe left mo with a weak heart. I had run down in flesh to mere skin and hone. I could not sleep lying down for smothering Gpcllc; frequent shar^p darting pains and palpitation caused a con- stant fear of raidden death, nothing could induce me to remain away from home over night. My local physician prescribed Dr. Miles' Heart Cure and in a few days I was able to sleep well and tho pains gradually lessened, and finally ceased. I reduced the the doses, having gained fifteen pounds, and am now feeling better in every way than I have for years." Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by all drug- gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits cv money re- funded, Book on dis- eases of the heart and | nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, COLLECTORS, RALEIGH, N. C. First-class Skins of Birds and Mammals, Bird's Eggs, Reptiles and Batrachia both Alive and in Alcohol. Histological Ma- terial. Full data. Send stamp for lists. I HK OOLOGIST ALL ROADS ARE ALIKE TO Perfection is the resuBt of our experience. MONARCH AND DEFIANCE BICYCLES are the product of mechanical ingenuity. $40.00 $50»00 $60.00 Monarch Chainless $100.00 Send for (898 Catalogue. Agents wanted in open territory. MONARCH CYCLE MFC. CO., Lake, Halsted and Fulton Streets, Chicago> Branches— New York. London and Hamburg. Send ten 2-cent stamps for a deck of Monarch Playing Cards illustrating Lillian Russell, Tom Cooper, Lee Richardson, and Walter Jones. OFFERS, subscription, pre- mium or otherwise, as made in April OOLOGIST, will be extended or hold good until July 15, 1898. "LATTIN. " THE OOLOGIST. FINE SHELLS. Acmea patina 8 persona Achatina variegata Achatinella Olivacea " spirazona " Perversa unidentata uniplicBta magna Ampullaria Hopetonensis Astratium longispina Astarte sulcata Aspergillum radix Area ponderosa _ Aplustrum aplustre _ BankiN-ia varians Bulinius multilineata Bahamaensis _ Bulla ani;:"ulla _ Bankivia varians Callista gigantea Cancellaria caneellata reticulata Cantharus antillarum Cardita floridana ■ Cardium niurieatum Pseudolina 1 elatum l ■' isocardia " consors Cassidaria echinophora Cassis cornuta 1 rufa tuberosa 1 testiculus coarctata " torquata Cerithium vulgatum Chama arcinella Chiton tuaicata " magdalensis scabra ; Chlorostoma funebrale Clauculus Meditereaneus Pharoensis Clypidella fascicularls CoctilGstyla mirabilis " metaformis " phoenix Columbella rustica fulgurans heamastoma Choncolepas peruviana Conus generaiis lestudinea minimus . miles archepiscopus.. . marmoreus litteratus bandanus Californicus eburnea millepunctata ... strictus Crepidula adunca Crucibulum spinosum Cuma kiosquiformis Cyclostoma sulcosa Cyprea helvola annulus " caput-serpentis ■' cervinetta carneola erosa histrio mappa 15 argus 75 to 1 50 I'n Isabella 10 75 Lynx 05 Oo pantherina 5»5 10 pyrum 50 10 talpa 50 05 tigris 25 to 50 05 tardus 20 10 " undata ... 20 05 Cytherea lusoria 40 30 '• umbonella 40 10 pulchra 25 75 " chione 40 20 Delphinula laciniata 60 20 Dentalium solida 30 15 entalis 10 15 Dolium fasciatum 50 10 Dosinea discus 20 ■^0 Eburna areola 40 10 Japonica 25 25 Engina mendecaria 05 25 Fasciolaria distans 10 25 tulipa 20 10 trapezium 35 10 Fissurella caneellata 10 15 Fulgur perversa 25 50 Halioris la.Tnmello.sa 25 00 iris 40 25 rufescens . 75 50 Harpa ventricosa 45 25 Helix nemoralis 10 fO Fraseri 40 50 " lactea 15 00 " terrestris . . 05 30 pyramidata 05 •40 thvroides 05 20 Hemicardium unedo 40 10 Hiponyx conica 05 20 Hlppopus maculatus 75 IS Hyalea tridentata 20 05 lanthina communis 10 to 40 15 lo spinosa 30 10 Latirus craticulatus 30 05 fllosa 85 15 Leptothyra rubrilineata 05 15 Lignus fasciatus 20 40 Lima squamosa 45 Littorina zebra 05 35 scabra 05 05 compressa 05 05 Lottia gigantia 25to7& 10 Macoma secta 15. 35 Marginella apicina 05 bO Melo diadema 61 25 \ielongena corona 35 15 Mitraepiscopalis 25 4 words. Notices over 2.5 words, charged at the rate of one-lial£ cent per each additional word. No notice Inserted lor less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted In payment at one-third list rates. What's Your Number? Examine the number following your name on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It denotes when your subscription expired or will expire. No. 145 your subscription expires with this issue 150 " " " " Nov, " 1.55 " ■• " " Apr.'99 " Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- mined. If we have you credited wrong we wish to rectify. Xlils niontIt*s OOI^OGIST -was mailed subscribers June 14. WILiL exchange sets (A.1). also many singles of 394, 511, 390, 300, 263 and more common ones for singles, sets, shells, curios, etc. If any- thingr wrong let me know. EMORY E. BRAN- DOW, CatsklU, N. Y. STAMPS, Coins, Paper Money Arrow Points for same. Want N. H. Points, also Coin and Stamp papers, English plate numbers, one-half penny to 10 shillings. ERWIN G. WARD, Truant .School, Springflekl, Mass. SAMANTHA at Saratoga, in a New Dress.— One of the funniest of all the funny books is "Samantha at Saratoga." FDrmerly published at $2.50, and sold by the hundred thousand, it has recently been issued in an exquisite little cloth-bound volume in the "Cambridge Clas- sics" series by Hurst & Co., of New York, as a means of widely advertising that series, and is sold at the fabulously low price of 25 cents. "They are sold by booksellers, or the publishers direct. BIG EGGS.— African Ostrich Eggs only 78 ■cents each prepaid, fine specimens, one hole. One egg prepaid, and a new subscription to either Osprey or Recreation, %\.'Zh. Books and periodicals of all sorts: let me quote you prices. Birds eggs in line sets, list free. BENJAMIN HO AG, Stephentown, N. Y. TO EXCHANGE.— For first-class bird skins, 40 Natural Science Xews, 7 Popalur Science, 2 NidologistB, 3 0. and 0., 3 Muxemnx. and Pocket Guide to Common Land Birds of New England (by Wilcox.) O. S. Biggs, San .Jose, 111. WHO wants Pinnated Grouse eggs for hatch- ing? Four (4) for $1.00, by mail, safe arrival guaranteed. S. M. EDWARDS, Argusville, Cass Co., N. D. FOR SALE.— A. O. U. No. 161-1, 50c: 401-3. 50c; 5a 2-3, 24c; 541-3, 3.5c; 651-4, 68c; 703-3, 17c ; 772-3, 80c; 791-1, 20c; 115 1-2, $1.20: 187 1-2, 70c; 188 1-4, $1.20; 202 10-4, 25c; 212 1-7, 38c; 214 1-11, 50c; 300 1-19, $1.15; 333 1-5, 68; 337a 1-2, 70c; 339 5-3, 45c: 339a 1-3, 70c; 390 1-7, 68c; 498 1-5, 24c; 412 2-7; 19c: 420a 1-2, 39c; 423 1-4, 24c; 431 n-2, 60c; 461 2-3, 24c; 452 1-6, 40c. The above prices are per set, all first-class data. Send for full list. All sets not satisfactory can be returned and money refund- ed at once. J. O. JOHNSON, Lock Box 550, Southington, Conn. POLISHED Buffalo Horns, Eggs, Bird Skins and Mounted, to exchange for books, useful articles or cheap for cash. CHRIS P. FORGE, Carman, Manitoba. TO EXCHANGE.— About 60 numbers Natur- al Science News, also a Harvard Camera and outfit. Camera takes picture 2V4x5. What have you to offer? OLIVER HOTCHKISS, Twinsburg, O. FOR EXCHANGE, Star Fish, Horse Foot Crab, Skate Eggs, Shells such as we have here lor Indian Relics or Minerals, or any Curios. E. BISHOP, P. O. Box 261, Northport, Long Island,.N. Y. FOR SALE.— Fine walnut egg cabinet, capac- ity 10,000 eggs. 75 square drawers; also fine powder and ball revolver, rebored for shot. Big bargain. PHILO W. SMITH, JR., Mona House, St. Louis, Mo. MY entire collection of birds eggs for sale for best offer in cash, send for list. W. L. HART. 1 106 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, Wash. EXCHANGE.— 273i.i. 3872.,-, 474bi^, 488 1-6, 506i4,,511fc9i 6 5, 412 1-5 2-8, 595I3', 581 >^ ?.-,', 54OI4, 598 5-3, 604>i, 622a 2-6. 6221-4^ 1-5 4-6 3-7, 704 1-5, 705 2-4, 721 1-6, 761 2-4 for other sets. Also 373'.. J^ 1-5 and 305 1-7 for sets of 360, 337. ISAAC E. HESS, Phllo, Ills. HAND EGG Blow-pipe for blowing and rinsing eggs. Sent prepaid with instructions for 75c or will exchange one for $3 worth of Al sets. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. M3t VIVE Cameras to exchange, any style, for desirable sets at one third Lattin's list. Also rare typical singles. Send list of sets and sin- «les. 'l. D. SUMNER, .502 State St., Madison, Wis. a5t -i^/s-oi THE OOLOGIST. CHEAP STAMPS.- 4 var. Argentine, 5c: 5, Cuba, 5c; 15, Holland, 10c: 17. Italy, 10c; 5, Mex- ico, 5c; 7, Salvador, 10c; 11, U. !^.. 5c. List of sets, &o. free. 17 var. western bird skins, $1, postpaid. F. T. CORLESS, Logan, Ore. M4t WANTED.— To exchange Llewellin Setter bitch, with fine pedigree, and a good hunter; 11 months old for good shot gun. URLING COE, Carthage, Mo. FOR SALE.— Live Bald Eagle about 5 years old. Nice specimen. Price $10.00. Address, W. F. D., care OOLOGIST, Albion, N. Y. TEA.— Fine quality, any kind, 50c, 75c and $1 per pound in exchange for Indian stone relics or mounted bison, moose, sheep, goat, elk, or antelope heads. Describe horns or antlers. Address. J. B. BROWN, P. O, Box .2306, New York City. BIRD SKINS from this section of Georgia, to exchange for those found north and west- west of Mississippi river preferred. Nothing for sale. ROBT. WINDSOR SMITH, Kirk- wood, Ga. M2t WANTED sets of eggs in exchange or for cash. Can offer rare sets Ducks, Hawks, Owls, Warblers. Want Eagles, Poorwills, Warblers, Sparrows and commoner kinds. E. ARNOLD, Battle Creek, Mich. FOR EXCHANGE.— What have you to ex- change for mounted Mule Deer, also Virginia Deer. Also some nice Deer Heads, one in the velvet. One eight-legged pig with one head ; a genuine freak. A. I. JOHNSON, Taxidermist, 620 East Grand Ave., Des Moines, la. m2t I HAVE Whippoorwill eggs and other eggs. Cheaper for cash than you ever did buy, or will exchange for a fine watch. Send stamp for list of many good things you will want. Every one who answers this advertisement and sends stamp for list I will send a present. I mean to sell cheap. G. W. ROBINETTE, Flag Pond. Va., U. S. A. (Reference Merchants Bank).m2 EMBRYO SCISSORS are needed during the next 60 days, if at all this season. A good pair may save a choice set worth many times their cost. The Long-shanked, fine pointed, curved ones are always retailed in the neighhood of II. I have Just secured a few at a "special rate," and have decided to give my patrons the benefit of my '-Bargain." While they last they are yours at only 45 cents each prepaid. ER- NEST H. SHORT, Albion, N. Y. All Notes, Exchanges and ad- vertising matter intended for July OOLOGIST must be for- warded by early mail. July is- sue will be out ON TIME. TO EXCHANGE.-First class sets of Nos. 194. S7.'^. 373t). 375, 325. 365, 385, 443. 487, 552a. 703, 420a. iSOb, with datas. All letters answered. GEORGE W. LOWRY, Abilene, Tex. M2t THREE Dollars will buy 110 varieties of for- eign and native woods, or 1 will exchange for woods not in my collection. LOUIS W. HAHN, Silver Creek, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. WANTED.— Lists of eggs for sale by reliable collectors. Do not care to exchange this year. Many eggs wanted, especially Calif ornian. LEE CHAMBERS, Santa Monica, Cal. M2t EXCHANGE EXTRAORDINARY. — South- eim. Northern and Canadian birds eggs in choice sets with full original data to exchange for A 1 sets and large singles. Have employed competent collectors. Carefully selected sets for private collections for sale at a reasonable price a specialty. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY. 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. M2t EXCHANGE —Eastman U Folding Kodak, 4x5 made to load with roll of 100, or less, films. Fine lens and all in A 1 condition. Will ex- change for skins or eggs or both. J. P. BAB- BITT, Taunton, Mass. EXCHANGE.— English Setter Pups, male.i one month old, fine blood, beautifully marked, father A 1 retriever, mother trained : will ex- change for birds eggs in sets or high-class fan- cy pigeons valued at $15.00. M. T. CLECK- LEY, 4.57 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. M2t Marine Shells and Curios. I am now in a position to furnish in quantity all of the best species collected on the Gulf Coast and will be pleased to furnish prices on applica- tion. Best of reference given and satisfaction guaranteed. Collections sent on approval to par- ties giving satisfactory reference. Any not ap- proved can be returned at my expense. Address all orders to A. J. BARNES, Dunedin, Fla. $3 worth of Desirable Sets^ [Ten Species.] XHF OOI OCISX THE OOLOGIST one year, and A FULL YEAR FOR ONLY 25 CENTS. If your do not care to accept the .50c premium offer made in April issue we will until July 15th accept subscriptions at 2.50 each and in ad- dition mail each accepting the offer a coupon good for a 25 word Exchange 'Notice, free. Ad- dress plainly, FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher. Albion, N. Y. an Exchange Coupon, all prepaid, for only $1. This Offer is good until July 15th only. The following sets are the one selected for this offer: Least Tern x-2. Mourning Dove 1-2, Red-wing- ed Blackbird 1-4, Orchard Oriole 1-5, Bullock's Oriole 1-5, Boat-tailed Crackle 1-3, House Finch 1-4, ArkansasGoldfinch 1.5, California Shrike 1-5, and a loth set of some desirable species, my se- lection, worth not less than 50 cents. Remember that until July 15th you get entire lot with Exchange Coupon and OOLOGIST one year for only $1.00. All prepaid, safe delivery, and satisfaction guaranteed. No deviation from this list or offer. Address at once, FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. THE OOLOGIST. Marine Curios and Stiells. minerals I malie a specialty in collecting, pre- paring and selling anything in the line of Marine Specimens obtainable on the Gulf Coast. I sell to the collector as well as to the Retail, Wholesale and Jobbing trade. I have unlimited facilities for obtain- ing anything among the "obtainables" — experienced collectors and assistants — and am prepared to fnrnish better material at lower prices than can be ob- tained from other soui'ces. If there is anything you need, write. J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. SHELLiS, eic. The White City Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens. $3. 50 smaller size, $2. 50 ama- teur size, $1. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $3. 100 Fossils, including fine Fish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several fine Ferns, etc., only $8. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from 35c to SI, very showy. Taxidermy in all its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIERS, Natural- ists Agency. 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, 111. NATURALISTS' PRINTING of all kinds on good paper cheap. Egg labels 15c per 100 small; 25 per 100 large. Fossil 10c per 100, Letter heads 35 per 100. Send copy for prices. D. H. EATON, Woburn. Mass. AGENTS WANTED In Every County to Supply the Great Popular Demand for AMERICA'S WAR for HUMANITY Told in Picture and Story, Compiled and Written by SENATOR JOHN J. INGALLS OF KANSAS. The most brilliantly written, most profusely and artistically illustrated, and most intensely popular book on the subject of the war with Spain. Nearly 200 Superb Illustrations from Photographs taken specially for this great work. Agents are making $.tO to $100 a week selling it. A ver- itable bonanza for live canvassers. Apply for description, terms and territory at once to N. D. THOMPSON PUBLISHING CO., St. Louis, Mo. or New York City. CABINETS. SendlOcts for photo of our speciality— Self Locking. T perches— Oak sam- ples by mail 8c, 10c and 15c: also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels. &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. oSMOtf NEW ENGLAND MINERALS. Rhomb Spar, R. 1., Beryl, N. H. : Actinolite, R. I. ; Galenite. Mass. H pound specimens of either postjnikl for only 10 cents; or the four for only 30 cents. The above is only a sample of the bai'gains I am offering in New England Minerals. Write your wants and send for lists. I handle only good fresh material— no rubbish. ROBERT BURNHAM, No. 143 Gallup St., PROVIDENCE, R. L A Beautiful Collection FROM THE CtUlf coast. 100 Melongena Corona, 4 to 5 inches $3 50 100 Fulgar Perversa, 6 to 8 inches 3 00 100 Fulgar Pyrura, 3 to SVs 3 OO 100 Pairs Pholas Costata, white, 6 to 7>^in..l0 00 100 Fasciolara Dlstans, 3 In 2 00 100 Vermetus Lumbricalis, 6 to 10 in 2 00 100 Strombus Pugilis, 3 in 2 00 This collection will be nicely cleaned and de- livered F. O. B. at prices quoted and satisfact- ion guaranteed. Address all orders A. J. BARNES, Dunedin, Fla. That Other 1 OQ Readers of The Oologist who have not yet subscribed for ^.THEOSPREY Should send lo cents for the June number, -^i^^-XHEN THBY W^ILL, — ->- Largest Circulation to Ornithologists and Oologists. THE OSPREY CO., 141 E. 25th ST., NEW YORK CITY. THE OOLOGIST. ROBERT BURNHAM, Dr. DEALER IN PRECIOUS STONES, OPALS, CURIOS AND FINE MINERALS. Cutting and polishing Agates and Gem Stones, and setting the same in solid gold settings a specialty. 143 GaUup St., Providence, R. I. PRICE LIST OF GEMS. OPALS. Australian 50c to $40.00 per kt. Hungarian 50c to 50.00 •• Mexican 10c to 20.00 " Opal Scarf Pins set in Solid Gold in lour siz- es, as follows: 75c, $l.a5, 2.50, 3.50. STUDS. Screw or Separate Back, $1.00 to $3.00. Clus- ters to order. EAR RINGS r/JO to $5.00 RING?, ETC., SET TO ORDER. Prices an application for soecial settings or extra fine stones. AMETHYST, TOPAZ, MOONSTONE. BLOODSTONE, AGATE, CROCIDOLITE, &c. In all forms and sizes for Rings, Pins, Charms, 10c to $5.00. Tourmaline 50c to $15.00 per kt. Aquamarine 50c to 5.00 Part Exchange will be accepted in pay- ment during the next thirty days. Good Live Agents Wanted in all parts of the world. Liberal cash commission paid. Having a large stock on hand. I will, for a ■short time, sell 20 lbs. of good Minerals for $1. One to fortj' kinds as you want then, large or small. iviiies A REMEDY FOR THE Effects of Tobacco. IHE excessive use of tobacco, especially ty young men is always injurious and undoubtedly shortens life materially. Mr. Ed. C. Ebsen, compositor on the Contra- Costa I^cv:s, Martinez, Cal., writes; "I have used Dr. Miles' Eestorative Nervine and re- ceived much benefit from it. I was troubled with nervousness, dizzy spells and sleepless- ness, caused by the use of tobacco and stim- ulants. I took Dr. Miles' Nervine with mar- velously good results, allaying the dizziness, quieting the nerves, and enabling me to sleep and rest, proving in my case a very benellcial remedy." Dr. I.Iiles' Eestorative Nervine is especiclly adapted to restoring the nervous system to its normcl condition under such circumstances. It soothcG, heals and strengthens. Dr. Miles' Remedies I are sold by all drug- gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle benefits or money re- funded. Book on dis- eases of the heart and nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart. Ind. Dr. EViiles' J^eetores HeaSth H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, COLLECTORS, RALEIGH, N. C. First-class Skins of Birds and Mammals, Bird's Eggs, Reptiles and Batrachia both Alive and in Alcohol. Histological Ma- terial. Full data. Send stamp for lists. IHK OOLUGISr ALL ROADS ARE ALIKE TO A MONARCH. Perfection is the result of our long experience. MONARCH AND DEFIANCE BICYCLES are the product of mechanical ingenuity. $40.00 $50.00 $60.00 Monarch Chainless $100.00 Send for 1898 Catalogue. Agents wanted in open territory. MONARCH CYCLE MFG. CO., Lake, Halsted and Fulton Streets, Chicago* Branches— New York. London and Hamburg. Send ten 2-cent stamps for a deck of Monarch Playing Cards illustrating Lillian Russell, Tom Cooper, Lee Richardson, and Walter Jonea< l^ALL MY OFFERS, subscription, pre- mium or otherwise, as made in April OOLOGIST, will be extended or hold good until July 15, 1898. "LATTIN." vi THE OOLOGIST. Three Big Bargains in Egg Collections. The following collections have been placed in our hands for sale at prices quoted. All are packed ready for immediate shipment, safed eliv- ery and satisfaction guaranteed. The Collections will remain on sale until July loth only, at which date if unsold they will be urfpacked and placed on sale at "CHAU- TAUQUA" and at double these prices. Catalogue of either collection furnished to parties meaning business at lo cents; the three for 25 cents, which amount may be deducted from price of collection, if purchased. With but few exceptions, all specimens are first-class in every respect, and the sets are accompanied by full and original data. If interested, remit or write at once to FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. i AAI I COTIflM A Contains One Hundred and Seventy-five ""■■^"" ' '"'^ •* (175) varieties of single eggs. Catalogue val- ue, $50.00. Nearly all of the specimens are carefully selected typical specimens. The following desirable species are represented in this col- lection: Loon, Western Grebe, Great Black-backed Gull, Bald- pate, Northern Eider, American Avocet, Gray Ruffed Grousa, Colum- bian Sharp-tailed Grouse, Turkey Vulture, Red-tailed Hawk, Western Red-tail, Swainson's Hawk, Barred Owl, Elf Owl, Pileated Woodpeck- er, Yellow-billed Magpie, Bendire's Thrasher, Ring Pheasant, Great Auk (cast), Ostrich, Emeu, Crocodile, and over 150 others. This col- lection will be sent by express at purchasers expense for only ^15* AAI I COTIAM D Contains selected typical sets of Ninety (90) """'■^" ■ iWll IJ species and in addition eight (8) desirable novelties such as Ostrich, Emeu, Python, Crocodile, Great Auk (cast), etc. The following very desirable sets are found in this collection: Redhead 1-8, Canvas-back 1-6, Bobwhite i-ii, California Partridge i-ii, Inca Dove 1-2, Marsh Hawk 1-4, Swainson's Hawk 1-3, Screech Owl 1-3, Burrowing Owl 1-7, Downy Woodpecker 1-6, Calif. Woodpecker 1-6, Northwestern Flicker 1-7, Whip-poor-will 1-2, Anna's Humming- bird n-2, Cassin's Kingbird 1-4, White-necked Raven 1-5, Rusty Song Sparrow 1-4, Sooty Song Sparrow 1-4, La. Water-Thrush 1-6, Cactus Wren 1-5, Chickadee 1-7, and nearly 70 others. Catalog value $go.oo. Entire collection by Express at purchaser's expense, ofllv ^25. AAI I CnTlfliy P Contains sets of fortv-five (45) species and UULLtU I lull U singles of- Ostrich, Adder, Alligator and Gopher. Catalogue value of entire collection, $30.00. The following sets are found in this collection: Inca Dove 1-2, Swainson's Hawk 1-2, Desert Sparrow Hawk 1-5, Screech Owl 1-3, Burrowing Owl 1-7, An- na's Hummingbird n-2, Cassin's Kingbird 1-3, Arizona Hooded Oriole 1-3, Lawrence's Goldfinch 1-5, Tree Swallow 1-4, California Shrike 1-5, Calif. Thrasher 1-3, Cactus Wren 1-5, and over 30 others. (All the sets in this collection are found in collection B). Collection by Express at purchasers expense, only 57.50. THE OOLOGIST. I BE GOOD ; ^ It is a hard task for the average man, and re- i > quires the showing forth of many excellent ^ ), qualities. But for a Bicycle Lamp to be good, , r really requires but two things: I, 1st. To Give a Good Light. , r 2d. To Stay Alight in Spite of Wind and Jar. , ► ^tm» THE " TDOYS GO A FISHING. Largest outfit ever ^~' offered for 10 Cents, i Fine Furnished Line, I Float two colors and varnished, i Imitation Drab Linen Line, 2 ^A^l^ite Lines, 40 feet, 15 Best Quality assorted Hooks. Sent on receipt of 10 cents and 2 cents postage. Stamps talten. Ad- dress, EXCELSIOR TACKLE CO., BRADDOCK, PA. MEXIC/\N COINS. Ic, 2c and 5c nickel uncirculated, and Ic copper. Set of 4 prepaid for only 12c. The nickel coins were in circula- tion only a few months in '82-'83 may become exceed inglv rare In a few years. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Providence, R. I. Hiiiii:iiiii'i!i!iiniii!iiriii[ii:iiiiiiiii:iiiin!i;iiiiiii'iiiiiiiii:i!iii!iig I RAPID TAXIDERMY. I . beautifully combines these two good qualities. ^ — f It also has the other and lesser virtues belonging H »• to the ^ ::; [ Perfect Bicycle Lamp. ; | )• Therefore as one step In your effort to ■* S ; BE GOOD i I I, BE WISE, and buy one of them A = i AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY. J |i Send for circular or, better still, send $'.S.50 H K Which is the reasonable price at whicU we sell 4 «, one, delivered anywhere. ^ ► R. E. DIETZ COMPANY ^ J 60 Laight Street 5 5, Established 1840 NEW YORK CITY 4 PUBLICATION^. EG(;S. BOOK^ WAVTKD' I will allow fiOc each for any baclv nuiul)er of the ■•.4'/.i'' you may have, if in good condition and sent pi-ep iul. ' You to take your full pay in Eggs, Shells (showy or scientific). ' orali, Echinodenns. Fossils. Minerals. Stamps. Hind- books, Curii s or Novelties. (Books. Instru- ments and Supplies will be giwn in exception- al cases by special ai-rangement) as listed in the Premium List Supplement. I can also use on same terms the following numbers of the OOLOGIST at prices quoteri : June, iSSS, 2.nc: July-Aug . 18^6, 20c: Jan. -Feb . 1887 or Dec, 1886 with same attache 1, inc; June-Sent., 1887, loc: Apr.. 18S9. l.=Sc: Jan-Peb.. 188'., 10-: Jan, 189.5, 5c: March. 1S97. .5c: May. 189?. hr. All must be complete, clean, and in good condition. I will also accept back No"s of Ornifhologist and Oolo- (jist. Recreation. Insect Life, any issue and in any quantity at ."^c per copy on same terms. (I will allow 2.5c for Oct., 'J^ and Feb.. ■04"/VtU9," also for October and December '9*5 Osprey.) If you have other publications along my line. Write and state what is wanted. I can also use books on sub.iects pertaining to Natural History if in good condition and cheap, also A No. 1 sets of eggs with data at Vi'St md- ard" rate^. Lists of books and eggs must ba submitted for mv se'ectlnn or approval before pending. Address at once PR.\NK H. LAT- TIN, Albion, N. Y. HEADACHEcuredin20mlnute8by Dr. Miles' Pain Pills. "One cent a dote." At druggists. Ten persons can learn at once as well as ^ one and bring the cost down to nothing. Si All materials furnislied. ^ Sold on a guarantee to give perfect sat- ^ isfaction or money refunded. ^ Write for Circulars, Testimonials and p Guarantee. ^ Mention The Oologist and address. 12 I MORRIS GIBBS. M. D., | I Kalamazoo, 91icli. ^ hiiiiiiiinii!iiiin;i'i]iiiiiiiiiiiiii:iiiii:iii;iii;iii!iiiiiii.i:iiiiiiii!iiiiiiii BUN Repeater //And SAVE NORE Ijri^m HALF on , ""^l Cartridges ■'m> i& v# c ' V* .i2-calibre cartridgesi for a Marlin, Model 1893, cost only *,5.()0 a thousand. ,?'J-oalibre cartridges lor any other re- peater nia, «<)■-( .-liiri.oo a thou.sand. Vou can sav« thi' cntir-r cost of vcmr Marlin on the first two thoiisaiid cartiiduis. AVhy this is so is fully cxiihumd in the Marlhi Hand (took for shooters. It also tells how to care for tireanns and how to use tliein. How to load eartridwes with the different kinds of black and smokeless jiowders. It irives trajectories, ve- locities, ijenetratioiis ami Kkh) otiier jioints of interest to sportsuieii. I'.is pak'es. Free, if you will scud staoips for )iosta;.'e to THE MARLIN FIREARMS CO , New Haven, Conn. viii THE OOLOGIST. Lattin's Standard Catalog ol North American Birds Eggs. EnlarRed (contains 72 pages) revised, corrected and brought up to date of going to press- March, 1896. Giving all of the new A. O. U. changes and additions. Also divided and sub- divided into orders, sub-orders, families, and sub-families. Values are based on the 1893 ones which were determined by the compiler, from iiivaluable notes, suggestions and assistance from Major Chas. E. Bendire,' J. Parker Norris, Esq., and Cap- tain B. F. Goss. In addition to these notes, which have been carefully reworked, the compiler has had suggestions from over FORTV Leading American OoLOGisrs, all of which were care- fully considered and where advisable, adopted. Lattin's Catalogue has long been recognized by leading Oologists as the "Standard." The compiler intends to issue a new one as soon as this edition is exhausted and desires the assistance of every working Oologist, in making values, etc. On this account he has concluded to close out this edition at the following rates, postpaid (regular price was 25 cents per copy.) Single copy 10 cents: 3 for 85 cents: 7 for 50 cents; 15 for $1 00. Address, FKANK II. LATTIX, ALBION, N. Y. A^ dvertise in The OOLOGIST. The "Country Gentlemen'''' is the leading Agricultural newspaper in Am- ' erica, and in soliciting advertising for its columns it makes its strongest hit in the following statement: "AS TO QUANTITY OF CIRCULATION it publishes many more 'Want Ads' than all other papers combined. You doubtless know what a 'Want Ad' circulation must be and always isV From this same stand point the Oolooist's rank among publications devoted not only to Ornithology but Natural History as well is identical to that of the CouNTr Gentlemen among agricultural publications. Mr. VV. Raine, of Toronto, who has already purchased $20 worth of space in the Oologist for '98 and who has patronized, its columns to a greater or less ex- tent for the past ten years, under date of March 2d, writes: "I do not wish to jolly you but I must sav that the Oologist is the best adver- tising jouraal of its kind in this continent. You should see the pile of letters I have received the past two weeks. Many fmm my old correspondents of years standing. For 12 years I have advertised in every Oruithological journal pub- lished in the United States, but noyie bring as good resu'is as the Oologist." "Methods in the Art of Taxidermy." By Davie. The Publishers price for this elaborate work was $io. The book is now out of print and the Publisher's supply is exhausted. Each month will now increase the value of copies remaining in hands of Dealers or Collectors, at least at the rate of 50 cents per month. I have only a few copies left (only six) and knowing full well that I shall be unable to obtain copies in the future to fill my orders at this price and perhaps not at any price. I have decided to close out the ones I have if taken before July ijt/t at only ^4 per CODV. (35 cents additional if sent prepaid). In case I have any left after July 15th it will take at least a $5 bill to secure a copy, doubtless more. Address at once ERNEST H. SHORT, ALBION, N. Y. The Oologist A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. VOL. XV. NO. 7 ALBION, N. Y., JULY, 1898. Whole No. 146 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. Brief special announcements, "Wants,' "Exchanges" "For Sales," Inserted In this department ■for 250 per 2h words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-halt cent per each additional word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted in payment at one-third list rates. What's Your Number? Examine the number following your name on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It denotes when your subscription expired or will expire. No. 146 your subscription expires with this issue 1.50 '■ " •■ '■ Nov.. " 1.55 " ■■ ■' " Apr.'99 " 160 " '■ •' •' Sept." " Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- mined. If Ave have you credited AATong we wish to rectify. This month's OOI.OG1ST -was -mailed sutoscritoers Juiy 31. WANTED.— A good 33 single shot rifle. Will • exchange' sets and singles. State price and write at once to, GEORGE D. BRADSHAW, ■Carlyon, N. Y. WANTED :— Printing Press, in good condi- tion, chase about 6x10. Also some newspaper type. Write giving description and lowest cash price. FRANZ TRIPP, Garden Prairie, Ills. WANTED —Full sets of A. O. U. No's 7, 293, 305, 329, 336, 339b, 34?. 349, 3.52, .360a, 362, 591c, 592, 599, 597, 635. 642, 645, 649, 655, 660, 662. 663, 672, 675, 677, 680, 681a. 681b, 685, 685a, 707a, 708, 718a, 719b, 722, 724. Can offer choice sets with nests of 641, and 676. Egg cabinet, &c. Address H. W. BEERS, 35 Denver Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. TO EXCHANGE:— Fine .sets of Mallard, Cin- namon Teal. Avocet. Black Stilt. Red-head and White-face Glossy Ibis. The latter can be sup- plied in series of from one to a dozen sets. Send your list excluding eggs catalogued at 25c or under. A. M. SHIELDS, Crocker Building, San Francisco. Jly2t HOW TO MAKE MONEY : If you are out of employment and want a position, paying you from $50 to 1100 monthly clear above ex- penses by working regularly, or, if you want to increase your present income from *200 to *50O yearly, by working at odd times, write the GLOBE CO., 723 Chestnut St., Phlla., Pa., stat- ing age, whether married or single, lastor pres- ent employment, and you can secure a position ■with them by which you can make more money easier and faster than you ever made before in your life. Jlyr CAMERA WANTED.— I want a good 5x7 hand-tripod camera. Send description with price. J. O. SNYDER, Stanford Univer- sity Cal. VIVE Cameras to exchange, any style, for desirable sets at one-third Lattin's list. Also rare tvpical singles. Send list of sets and sin- gles. L. D. SUMNER, 503 State St., Madison, Wis. a5t WILL EXCHANGE I4 spark ooil, amateur, hand generator, Kent Dynamo-motor, Shaw and Edison motor for eggs. Large eggs pre- ferred. Everything answered. Send your lists. C, F. CALLAGHAN, General Delivery, Erie, Pa. LITTLE BROWN CRANE Eggs and Skins for sale. 3 sets of 2 eggs each with skins of the parent birds, obtained in Assiniboia last month with original datas. Full particulars about the nesting of the Little Brown Crane in North West Canada will soon appear in the Auk. W. RAINE, Kew Beach, Toronto, Canada. CHEAP STAMPS.— 4 var. Argentine, 5c; 5, Cuba, 5c; 15, Holland, 10c: 17, Italy, 10c; 5, M ex ico, 5c: 7, Salvador, 10c; 11, U, s*., 5c. List of sets, «&c, free. 17 var. western bird skins, $1, postpaid. F. T. CORLESS, Logan, Ore. M4t WANTED:— Pair of opera glasses and books on Birds, will give Scientific Books or cash in exchange. H. E. NEUMANN, 204 Rock St., Watertown, Wi - . CZI WANTED:— ;5everal sets of Black and Yel- low-billed Cuckoos, Red-eyed Vireo, Cedar Bird, Downy Woodpecker. Painted Bunting, Tufted Puffin, Pigeon Guillemot, Osprey, Screech Owl, Tree Swallow, Prairie Horned Lark. Purple Martin, American Bittern, Cala. Quail, Bo D- white, Killdeer, Bartram's Sand- piper, Leaches Peti-el and many others. I can offer eggs and skins from Iceland, Labrador, Hudson Bay, Northwest Canada, Rockv Moun- tains and Alaska. WALTER RAI^fE. Kew Beach, Toronto, Canada. FOR SALE:— 1 large Elk head 7 and 8 points, Buffalo horns, polished, mounted and un- mounted set; large elk antlers, 6 point; one mounted goat head ; a few mounted birds, skins and eggs in sets and singles. At very low prices for cash or useful exchange. CHRIS P. FORGE, Carman. Manitoba. vn iV' THE OOLUGISr FOR SALE:— Fine specimens of American Turquois. Will cut good settings at 2oc to II. This is a good chance to get a fine stone cheap. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Provi- dence, R. I. NOTICE :— Having gone to the front with the Geneva 3-Jth, I would like all previously ar- ranged exchanges and correspondence post- poned until the close of the war. B. £. BOW- DISH. I WILL, exchange butterflies of Missouri for others froni any part of the United States, common ones taken. H. SCHWARZ, 1520 La- fayette Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Jy2t MINERALS FOR SALE:— Choice specimens of Molybdenite (fine), Columbite. Torbernite, Orthoclase, Magnetite crystals. Rose Quartz. Serpentine and Aphrodite. 10 to 25c. JAMES W. DAVIS, Port Chester, N. Y. FOR EXCHANGE :— Fine sets 53. 125. 139. 141. 142, 143, 212, 214, 221. 225. 226, 230. 366, 367, 475, 545. 702, 725a and 150 others. Send good list and receive same. W. H. PARKER, 158 Mc- Cleland Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah. FOR SALE or EXCHANGE:— 2000 eggs in sets taken this season in Northwest Canada. The lot contains many rare species. Send list. W. RAINE, Kew Beach, Toronto. TO EXCHANGE :— The following A. O. U. singles for sets: 1200.126,208.261,316, 337, 387, 88, 444, 467, 488, 495, 498, 507, 511b, 519, .546, .550, 584, 593, 613, 616, 622a, 633, 653, 684, 687, 704, 705, 721 and 725. Address Lock Box 854, Welling- ton, Kas. AM SELLING my collection of Rugs, Bird and Mammal skins. Heads, Birds. Snakes, at H cost. Write for wants. BOX 431, West Haven, Conn. WANTED;— Second hand bicycle. I offer line pair of Buffie-head Duck under Reed's Con- vex Glass Shade, shore scence. Whole piece 38x30 in., with frame. Value, $25. Address, J. R., care Oologist. Albion, N. Y. FOR SALE or EXCHANGE :— Three Flying Squirrels, one old and two young (full grown). Best cash offer or exchange in sets, takes the lot. EDW. W. SPRINGER, Owatonna, Minn. I WILL exchange an improved Simplex Typewriter for Sargent's or Fullers Book on Botany. LOUIS W. HAHN, Silver Creek, Chautauqua Co., N. Y. EXCHANGE:— Eggs, sets or singles, stamps, old money, shells, mandolin, climbers, skins, relics, for eggs, skins or best offer in cash. J. A. FORD, Carlyon, Orleans Co., N. Y. WANTED:— Bendires "Life Histories of North American Birds" Vol. II. Can offer rare sets, skins, books and part cash. I also want an XL shot gun. WALTER RAINE, Kew Beach, Toronto. MOUNTED Birds eggs, curios, books, etc. To sell or exchange. Want good shot gun. 1 would like to open correspondence with you. V. G. deKalands, 722 12th St., Ann Arbor, Mich. HAVE following sets for exchange: E. Sparrow 3-5 1-6. 202 1-5. 261 1-4, 3331-4, 390 1-4. 444 2-4, 2-3, 456 3-4 1-5. 474 1-2, 477 1-3 1-4, 488 1-4, 498 4-4. 501b 3-4 1-6, 506 1-4, 511 1-4, 519 1-3, 538 1-4, 540a 1-4, 560 1-4 2-2, 6111-51-4, 6111-5 1-4, 612 1-4 1-5,616 1-4, 652 1-4 1-3, 7031-4, 704 1-4, 705 1-4 1-3. All letters answered. JAS. L. PLATT, Cresco, Iowa. WANTED:— Ithaca. Remington, Spencer Winchester and Parker Bros, shot guns, l? gauge. Also fox hound. Pheasants and Turk- eys. Can offer in exchange for above one hun- dred first class sets, data, Fancv Pigeons, etc.. J. O. JOHNSON, Southington, Conn, WANTED:— Sets of Raptores and Warblers,, for which I can give rare Arizona and other sets. I particularly desire 331. 332 and 378 A. O. U. No's. F. C WILLARD, 70 N. Cherry St.,. Galesburg. 111. Jy2t FOR SALE CHEAP:— Fine Minerals, choice fossils, rare shells, odd curios, ancient relics, specimens of all branches of science. Wanted ; OUvn and Cypraaas. Live Hawk and Owls. F. A. W. DEAN, 39 Falls St., Niagara Falls. N. Y. I WOULD LIKE to hear from collectors in. other states who will exchange eggs peculiar to their state, for those of my vicinity. Lists furnished. R. J. RICHARDSON, Box 2356, Batavia, N. Y. WANTED:— Sets of 342 or 3S5. Will give to- the amount of $1.20 for every $1 for anything I. have to exchange for them. I have 2-5 201,. 1-4 263. 1 3 595, 1-3 634, 1-4 269, 1-5 1-3 68S, 1-113, 1-4 6,52, 1-4 6'9, 1-2 387. RAY DENSMORE, Box; 7, Painesville, Ohio. LOOK : Keating Bicycle in good condition,, for sale or exchange. $12 cash takes it. A bar- gain. Write for description. R. E. PIKE,, Box 32, Livermore, Maine. FOR EXCHANGE:— A few shells for crys- tals. A. D. C, Box 21. Harwichport, Mass. WANTED:— Eggs of Raptores in sets with- full, original data; for, other sets, books, back numbers or volumes of the Orrdthologist and' Oologist, skins, mounted birds, eye«, supplies, etc. Write what you have and what you want- Want also good unmounted photos, of bii-ds, their nests and eggs from nature. Address CHARLES R. HIGBEE, Jr., No. 13 Austin St.,- Hyde Park, Mass. FOR EXCHANGE :— 468 4-5. 500 5-4. 510 1-4 1-5,. 518 3-4 n^ n-5. 621 1-5 1-6. 622b 2-5 1-4. 703 1-4. 505a n-4. Would like sets of 225, 226, 182. Will sell cheap for cash. HARRY DUNN, Fullerton, Calif. PUBLICATIONS, EGGS, BOOKS WANTED: I will allow 50c each for any back number of the "Auk'' you may have, if in good condition, and sent prepaid. You to take your full pay in Eggs, Shells (showy or scientific), Corals,, Echinoderms, Fossils, Minerals, Curios, Novel- ties, &c. as listed inthe Premium List I can also- use on same terms the following numbers, of the Oologist at prices quoted: June, 18S8, 25c; July-Aug , 1886, 20c: Jan.-Feb.. 1887 or Dec.,. 1886 with same attached, 10c: June-Sept., 1887, lac; Apr.. 1889, 15c; Jan-Feb., 1886, 10c; Jan., 1895, 5c; March, 1897, 5c; May. 1897, 5c. All must be complete, clean, and in good condition. I will also accept back No's of Ornithologist and Oolo- gist, Recreation. Insect Life, any issue and in. any quantity at 5c per copy on same terms. (I will allow 35c for Oct.. '93 and Feb., '94 "jYitZs," also for October and December '96 Osprey.'y If you have other publications along my line. Write and state what is wanted. I can also use books on subjects pertaining to- Natural History if in good condition and cheap, also A No. 1 sets of eggs with data at V4" Stand- ard" rates. Lists of books and eggs must be submitted for my selection or approval before sending. Address at once FRANK H. LAT- TIN, Albion, N. Y. THE OOLOGIST at CASH or EXCHANGE:— 0^iJ/f(/. vol. T. No's 1. 5, 7, 9. 10: vol. II, No's 1. 3. Sidiologist. vol. IV, No. 1. Dee. '93. May "94, Oct. 96. JESSE C. A. MEEKER, Box -296, Bridgeport, Conn. Choice North Dakota Sets. Personally collectecl. Very full data. Pre- paid on orders exceeding *3. On orders exceed- ing $10, ten per cent, discount. No exchanges. I refer (though, ■without permission) to Wm. Brewster. C W. Crandall, Thos. H. Jackson, J. Parker Norris. G. Frean Morcom, A. H. Frost. H. G. Parker. O. W. Knight, Ludwig Kumlienand other high class collectors. Per Egg American Avocet, 3-4,2-1 $ 4Lt American Bittern, 1-5 1-4 40 Wilson's Phalarope, 3-4 1-1 - 2.5 Bartramian Sandpiper, 3-4 1-3 1-2 15 Belted Piping Plover, 1-3 50 American Herring Gull, 2-2 15 Prairie Sharp-tail Grouse, 1-6 1-8 1-13 20 Western Horned Owl, 1-3 75 American Long-eared Owl, 3 5 20 Short-eared Owl. 1-2 1-1 40 Ferrug. Rough-legged Hawk, 2-5 4 4 1-3 1-1.. 75 Swainson's Hawk, 2-3 7-2 20 Marsh Hawk. 6-5 4-4 20 Western Night Hawk 1-2 20 Western Meadow LarK, 1-7 10 Baird's Sparrow, n-5 (end blown) 50 Chestnut collared Longspur, 1-6 1-5 3-4 3-3.. :]5 Prairie Homed Lark 1-3 1-6 10 Canvas-back n-6 (down only) 40 Lesser Scaup n-9 (down only) 25 Baldpate, n-8 n-9 n-10 n-U 2-7 2-8 1-9 25 Gadwall, n-8 n-lO 1-7 _ 25 Shoveller. n-lO 2 9 3-8 1-7 15 Pintail. 3-8 - 15 American Golden-eye, Ml 2-10 1-9 25 Ruddy. 1-9 1-7 15 Green-winged Teal, n-3 - 50 Blue-winged Teal, n-10 n-9 1-13 1-9 In Mallard. 1-8 10 Redhead, 1-151-11 - 15 Duck's nest or down 25c extra. EUGENE S. ROLFE, Jul2t Minnewaukan, N, Dak. THE OOLOGIST A FULL YEAR FOR ONLY 25 CENTS. If your do not care to accept the oOc premium offer made in this issue we will until August 15th accept subscriptions at 2.=>c each and in ad- dition mail each accepting the offer a coupon good for a 25 word Exchange Notice, free. Ad- dress plainly, FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, Albion, N. Y. iJIklCDAlO SHELLS, etc. The White IVIinknMLd City Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens, *3. 50 smaller size. ?2. 50 ama- teur size. Jl. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only 13. 100 Fossils, including fine Fish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several line Ferns, etc., only J8. A great varie- ty Unios 'With one valve highly published from 36c to fl, very showy. Taxidermy in all its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, lOc. J.M. WIERS. Natural- ists Agency. 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, 111. Methods in the Art TAXIDERMY BY OLIVER DAVIE, Author of "Nests and Egg's of North American Birds," etc. Containing Ninety Full Page Engravings, over Five Hundred Figures minutely illustrating the most practical methods practiced in the art. It teaches in detail, sten by step, the Skinning and Stuffling of Birds, Mammals, Crustaceans, Fishes'and Reptiles, together with illustrations of forms and Attitudes of the Animal Kingdom. The text is by Oliver Davie, who has made Taxidermy his life study and profession. The originals of the illustrations were made in In- dia ink from time to time as the actual subjects could be obtained from which to make the va- rious procedures. They were drawn by the eminent Bird and Mammal Artist.— Theodore Jasper, A. M., M. D.. whose experience in the Art of Taxidermy extends over a perion of fifty years. Every illustration by this artist is a work of art. Among these engravings are re- productions from photographs of actual work by American Taxidermists. Each copy of this book is enclosed in box for shipment and is sent prepaid upon receipt of price. In one Quarto Volume, Silk Cloth, Gilt Top, Untrimmed Edges, $7.50. (Publisher's price is S10.) SAVE MORE mN HALF on ^ihecostof -Carlrid^S 32-oalibre cartridges for a Martin, Model 1892, cost only $,5.00 a thousand. 3?-calibre cartrulges f;is. Why this is so is fully explained in tin- Marlin Hand Book for shooters. It also tills how to care for firearms and how to use tliciii. How to load cartridges with the different kinds of black and smokeless iniwrters. It Kives trajectories, ve- locities, penetrations and l(«iii other points of interest to sportsmen. V.m jiai-'es. Free, if you will s-end stami^s fur jiostatre to THE MARLIN FIREARMS CO , New Haven, Conn. HK O0Li)r;tll "iO Ihs. of good Minerals for $1 One to forty kinds as vou "want then, large or small. rRS. JOHN WALLET, of Jefferson, •^\ TTis., than whom none is more highly esteemed or widely known, writes. "In ISOO I had a severe attack of LaGrippe and at the end of four months, in spite of all physicians, friends and good nursing could do, my lungs heart and nervous system were so completely wrecked, my life was de- spaired of, my friends giving me up. 1 could only sleep by the use of opiates. My lungs and heart pained me terribly and my cough was most aggravating. I could not lie in one position but a short time and not on my left side at all. My husband brought me Dr. Miles' Nervine and Heart Cure and I be- gan taking them. When I had taken a half bottle of each I was much better and contin- uing persistently I took about a dozen bot- tles and was completely restored to health to the surprise of all." Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by all drug- I gists under a positive guarantee, first bottle | benefits or money re- funded. Book on dis- eases of the heart and 1 nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind. H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, COLLECTORS, RALEIGH, N. C. First-class Skins of Birds and Mammals, Bird's Eggs, Reptiles and Batrachia both Alive and in Alcohol. Histological Ma- terial. Full data. Send stamp for lists. THE OOLOGIST Ttcsts anb (Eggs of By Oliver Davie. Fifth edition; Revised, augmented and profusely illustrated, 560 pages, octavo, extra cloth. Price, prepaid to any part of United States or Canada, $2.25. I now have this invaluable book in stock ready for immediate deliv- ery. Every "Bird Man" must have a copy. It is an absolute necessity — without a copy you are, from an Oological standpoint, as much at sea as a carpenter would be without saw or hammer. The price is $2.25 net, prepaid. No reduction, no deviation. If, however, you order a copy of us on or before Sept. ist and enclose 45 cents additional (to cover mailing expenses) $2.70 in all, I will send you prepaid: One copy Davie's "Nests and Eggs" $2 25 One copy "Penikese," bound 50 One copy Short's Birds of Western New York 25 Ten copies of "Nidiologist" (one containing colored plate) i 40 One copy Lattin's Standard Egg Catalogue 25 Subscription to Oologist, one year 50 One Exchange Notice, or Coupon good for one in Oologist 25 $5 40 The regular price for above is $5.40, but until Sept. ist I will send entire lot prepaid for only $2.70. No change or variation in the combi- nation. Remit in most convenient manner. Address at once, plainly and in full. FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. ^'Methods in the Art of Taxidermy." By Davie. The Publisher's price for this elaborate work was $10. The book is dow out of print and the Publisher's supply is exhausted. Each month will now increase the value of copies remaining in hands of Dealers or Collectors, at least at the rate of 50 cents per month. I have only a few copies left (only six^ and knowing full well that I shall be unable to obtain copies in the future to till orders at this price and perhaps not at any price I have decided to close out the ones I have if taken before September loth at only $5 per copy. (35 cents additional if sent prepaid.) Address at once. ERNEST H. SHORT, ALBION, N. Y. THE OOLOGIST. i i. THK DIETZ J DRIVING LAMP j Is about as near perfection as 50 years A of Lannp-Makin^ can attain to. It k burns kerosene, and £;ives a pcv/erful. m clear, white light, and wi.l neither blow f: nor jar out. When out driving with a it the darkness easily keeps about two V hundred feet ahead of your smartest T horse. When you want the very best a Driving Lamp to be had. as.i your V dealer for the ■■ Dietz." P We issue a special Catalogue of this a Lamp and, if you ever prowl around v after night-fall, it will interest you. ff 'Tis mailed free. a R. :e. DIET:^ CO., ^ 60 I^aight St., New York. J 3 Bstabllshed in ZS40. T liri 11 1 1 III 1 1 III 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 III I III 1 1 III I inn i mis I RAPID TAXIDERMY, j = Ten nersons can learn at once as well as ^ S one and bring the cost down to nothing. S = All materials furnished. ^ = Sold on a guarantee to give perfect sat- ^ S isfaction or money refunded. ^ M Write for Circulars, Testimonials and p = Guarantee. * ^ S Mention The Oologist and address. = I MORRIS GIBBS, M.D., | ^ Kalamazoo, 9Iicli. ^ ii liiiii i I nil III 1 1 1 III I III I liiii 1 1 MM nil 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 nil Marine Shells and Curios. I am no\^ in a position to furnish in quantity all of the best species collected on the Gulf Coast and will be pleased to furnish prices on applica- tion. Best of reference given and satisfaction guaranteed. Collections sent on approval to par- ties giving satisfactory reference. Any not ap- proved can be returned at my expense. Address all orders to A. J. BARNES, Dunedin, Fla. [ZID Marine Curios and Shells. I make a specialty in collecting, pre- paring and selling anything in the line of Marine Specimens obtainable on the Gulf Coast. I sell to the Collector as well as to the Retail, Wholesale and Jobbing trade. J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. CABINETS. SendlOcts for photo of our speciality— SelfLocking. T perches— Oak sam- ples by mail 8c,lOc and 15c: also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels. &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 58MOtf NEW ENGLAND MINERALS. Rhomb Spar, R. 1., Beryl, N. H. : Actinolite, R. I. ; Galenite. Mass. u pound specimens of either postpaid for only 10 cents; or the four for only 30 cents. The above is only a sample of the bargains I am offering in New England Minerals. Write your wants and send for lists. I handle only good fresh material— no rubbish. ROBERT BURNHAM, No. 143 Gallup St., PROVIDENCE, R. I. MEXICAN COINS, ic, 2c and 5c nickel uncirctilated, and Ic copper. Set of 4 prepaid for only 12c. The nickel coins were in circula- tion only a few months In '82-'83 may become exceedingly rare In a few years. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Providence, R, I. $3 ^ortli of Desirable Sets» [Ten Species.] THE OOLOGIST one year, and an Exchange Coupon, all prepaid, for only $1. This Offer is good untiPSept. 15th only. The following sets are the one selected for this offer: Least Tern 1-2, Mourning Dove 1-2, Red-wing- ed Blackbird 1-4, Orchard Oriole 1-5, Bullock's- Oriole 1-5, Boat-tailed Grackle 1-3, House Finch 1-4, ArkansasGoldfinch 1.5, California Shrike 1-5, and a loth set of some desirable species, my se- lection, worth not less than 50 cents. Remember that until Sept. 15th you get entire lot with Exchange Coupon and OOLOGIST one year for only $1.00. All prepaid, safe delivery, and satisfaction guaranteed. No deviation fronv this list or offer. Address at once, FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. CRANKLIN I^E^^Rofrf MICH. Bates. »1.50 to $3.00 per Day. Only one block from 'Woodward and Jefferson Aves. Elevator Service, Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Tile Floors, £tc, H. H. JAMES & SON, Prop'rs. ' r r HOUSE THE OOLOGIST. 50 35 10 35 12 10 20 10 20 15 75 50 05 50 50 35 50 20 10 50 35 1 GO 25 10 5 10 06 25 15 05 15 20 15 15 05 35 10 05 10 15 10 10 35 05 10 15 05 05 05 10 10 20 $1.00 WORTH OF PREMIUMS ABSOLUTELY FREE TO EVERY SUBSCRIBER TO THE UULOUlSTi read mank on reverse. Subscibers can puienase premiums in lots of 5Uc or over at one-half price. Stamps accepted. Phillippian Urchin .. 35 Purple Urchin, select 25 Black Starfish Acorn Barnacles Keyhole Urchin Lucky Tooth of Cod ... Hermit Crab in Shell .. "Eye Stones" MINERALS, &c. Chiastolite Crystals $ 15 Coquina 25 "Electric" stone 25 Chalcedony Geodes select.. 50 Gem Stones, small cut and polished semi-precious stones, many suitable for mounting : Sard Trilby heart intag- lioes 8 1-5 Opals. Mexican 15, 25, 35, 50 Red Onyx _ 15 Black Onyx 15 Crocidolite. Tiger-eye.. .10, 15, 25 Lapis Lazuli 35 Chalcedony, 3 var. each... 10 Black Ribbon Agates 10 Red Ribbon Agate 10 Carnelian 10 Assorted dozen 50 100 Fossil Shark Teeth 5, 10 Scaphites nodosuslO, 25, 50, 1.00 Polyp Coral 10, 25, 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Arrowheads, M doz. assf d$ Revolutionary Gun Flint Dove Shell from British Guiana exhibit at World's Fair, pkg. of 12_ 25 Chines Horn Nut 10 Beetle Nut 10 Broken Bank Bill 10- Confederate State Bill 10 Chameleon in Alcohol 25. Alligator Tooth 5. 10, 15, 25 Young Naturalist's Mar- velous Collection, 50 labelled specimens 1 00' Chinese Coin 05 Mexican Whistle, clay 10" 7var.unusedCubanStamps 35 Resurrection Plant, Mex.. 10 Bird Arrow Point 25 Set of Souverir World's Fair Tickets 1 00 PUBLICATIONS. OoLOGisT, 20 numbers 50 Nidiologist, 8 numbers 1 00 The Wilson Quarterly and Semi Annual 4 numbers 1 00 Natural Science News, 52 back numbers - 1 00 Above publications are all different and of our selection. OOLOGiST,1892,bound cloth 1 00 Penikese, a volume of 96, pages. Giving an acc't of Agassiz's summer school at Penikese Island 50 Loucks, Pro thonotary Warbler 35 Short, Birds of W.N. Y..._ 15 Laitins Standard Egg Cat 15 Direction.s for Collecting Minerals, 16 pp Exchafige Notice 1.00 -w^ortli of Premiums to the following address Name p. O. Box or Street Address County Post-Offlce State I select the following for my One Dollar's worth of premiums i^Remember.— That for only 50 cents every subscriber will receive The Oologist. as issued, for one yeai', and in addition will receive by return mail, one exchange coupon and $1.00 worth of premiums as offered on back of this blank. Write above the ones you prefer and mark on back of this blank a few extras to be used in case we should be out of your first choice. Tliis offer ^vill bold good until November 1, 1898. BE SURE and address all of your letters and orders plainly and in full to FRANK H. LATTIX, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. The Oologist A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. VOL. XV. NO. 8-10. ALBION, N. Y., AUG.-OCT., 1898. Whole No. 147 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. Brief special announcements, "Wants,' "Exchanges" "For Sales," Insertcl In this department tor 25c per '2.T words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted In payment at one-third list rates. What's Your Number? Examine the number following your name on the wi-apper of this month's Oologist. It denotes when your subscription expired or will expire. No. 147 your subscription expires with this issue 1.50 '• '• " " Nov.. " 1.55 " " •' " Apr.'99 " 160 •• " •' •' Sept." " Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- mined. If we have you credited wrong we wish to rectify. Xlils mouth's OOI^OGISX was mailed subscribers O^. 6. IMI»OR.XANX:— Owing to the fact that the publisher of The Oologist has been ab- sent from home the past few months this issue has; necessarily been delayed and while this Issue is dated "August-October" it does not imply a "double number" but will count as one only towards the ones due on subscriptions. Next Issue will appear promptly on November 10th. MOUNTED BIRDS:— Cooper's Hawk pounc- ing on Quail, Nos. 151. 30, 373e, .595, 636, 521. 474, 474b, 360, 242, 70, 413, 477. 501, 498, 497, .587, Will sell single or in lot. I have a nice glass case for the lot. ROBT, BURNHAM, 143GallupSt., Providence, R. I. WANTED at once a copy of Bulletin No. 4 of Division of Forestry. Dept. of Agriculture— "The Nomenclature of the Arborescent Flora of the U. S. FRANK H.LATTIN, Albion, N.Y. WANTED:— Sets or singles of 8. 51a,' .59, 125, 144, 163, 166, 200, 238, 275. 889, 375. 378, 428, 434, 463, 461, 474b, 477, 498, 501, 563, 735, 761, 766. In ex- change for mineral specimens. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Providence, R. I, WANTED: — Auks Single copies or volumes previous to and including 1896. Will give cash or Davies' new Nest and Egg book. Write what you have. JAMES H. HILL, New Lon- don. Conn., P. O. Box 485. a 4t CHOICE :— A No. 1 sets with full original data, for sale or exchange. A.O.U., Nos. 58, 63, 69. 70. 80. 201. 211. 2.58, 280, 373, 412. 456. 466a. 474b, 475, 477, 488, 498. .506. 513. 529, .563. 593, 59,5. 598. 601, 604, 622, 622a. 683. 703, 704, 705, 735, 766. M. T. CLECKSEY, 4.57 Greene street, Augusta Ga. FOR SALE.— My entire collection of 500 sets, all different. Must be sold and at snap prices. For list, description and terms, address. W. F. HILL, Lake City, Minn. TO EXCHANGE or SELL.— Sets, data, 202, 488, 511, 593, 412, 433, 4.56, 540, 581, 613, 702, 725, 761, 766; also Singles. Want singles of 556, 92, etc. WILLIAM B. CRISPEN, Box 17, Salem, N. J. TO EXCHANGE:— The following A. O. U. sets: 359a 1-2, 631 2-4, 703 2-5, 726a 1-6 (from Ari- zona), 7i9 1-4, 751 1-4 and many rare singles. Next season I will have for sale and exchange many sets from this state. E. F. POPE, Colmesneil, Tex. FOR SALE.— Vol. I and II of Osi)rey also vol. XIV of Oologist. All for $4, express paid. A great bargain, worth over $5. GEO. ROB- ERTS, JR., 63 Washington St., Hartford, Conn. IT PAYS to advertise in the Oologist. AMOS W. PYFER, Salesville, Montana. WANTED.— Nos. 7, 30, 204, 205. 206, 208. 301. Can give in exchange 475 1-6 1-7, 273 1-4, 5111) 1-5, 348 1-4, 420a 1-2 and others. AMOS W. PYFER, Salesville, Mont. TO EXCHi^VGE.— Finesetsof 1911-4, 6 1-6, 318 1-4. 420a 1-2 md second cla-^s set of two eggs of Goldf-n Ea-,.e. AMOS M. PYFER. Sales- ville, r.iout. SEEDS— Packet of assorted Haytian seeds. Some very rare and singular. 25 cents. Stamps taken. T. G. PRIDDLEY, 371 Carlton St? eet, Toronto. s2t TO EXCHANGE:— I have a fine lot of Land, Fresh Water and Marine Shells to exchange for Indian relics. BENTON HOLCOMB, West Granby, Hartford Co., Conn. s3t WANTED:— A Winchester or double barrel hammerless shotgun, Winchester forearm action preferred. Also want a setter pup. Have $3.1 worth of first class eggs in sets, with data, to offer in exchange. JOHN SKINNER, Fayette, Iowa. EXCHANGE:— Small hornets nest about 2 inches in diameter, value 50 cents. Chimney Swifts, Orchard Orioles, and Chipping Spar- rows uests. Will accept single eggs not of this locality, nests at rate of single eggs. Address, WM. B. CRISPEN, Salem. N. J. X.^' oi THE OOLOGIST. FOR EXCHANGE :— 22 cal. vi&e single shot, good condition, cost $7.50. Want Indian relics of any kind, or fine crystals, shells and corals. Address ARCHAEOLOGIST, Box 393, Caro, Michigan. EXCHANGE OR SALE:— A Quackenbush safety cartridge rifle in good condition, 22 long, for best otter. Address G. H. BRIGGS, Livermore, Maine, Box 132, FOR SALE:— A walnut exhibition egg cabi- net,eost $6 sell for $2. OTTO HOLSTEIN,Paris, Kentucky. R, L, MORE, Decatur, Texas, 3 fossils, 10c. Mexican Opals, 12 cents each. Horned frog (unmounted; 25 cts. Your money back if you want it. STRICTLY first class sets 27 5-2, 30 10--1, 106 20-1, 130 1-8, 27-1 2-3, 2-3, 347 a 1-2, 554 2-3, 2-4, 559 1-3, 697 1-3, and 7.57 1-2, to exchange for good sets of 332, 343 or 364. Address, Lock Box 27, Arlington, Mass. FOR EXCHANGE;— Five sets bird eggs with or without nests. Pacific coast sea shells, Illinois river shells, etc. Will exchange above for sets not in my collection. OTHO N. GAY, Camp Point, 111. FOR SALE:— I have a nice collection of fine first class sets, will sell very cheap. Parties who wish to buy. send for list immediately. FREEMAN J. GRIDLEY, Nordhoff, Ventura Co., California. WANTED: — Comstocks Entomology, can offer in exchange eggs, 366 1-4, 735 1-7, 507 1-6, 622 a 1-5. Botanical specimens, and part cash. Send description of stock. R. T. ANDERSON, Aylmer West, Ont, SHELLS:— 50 land and fresh water shells from Haiti, assorted, 50 cents. Post, free, T, G. PRIDDEY, 371 Carlton street, Toronto, s2t OVERSTOCKED: — Choice sets with full original data for sale at reasonable prices, or exchange for desirable sets, or large singles. List for 2c stamp. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene street, Augusta, Ga. s2t WANTED:— A. 1 sets A, O, U, Nos. 7, 58, 64, 137, 139, 144, 190, 172, 218, 261, 263, 273, 334, 339, 364. 387, 388, and many others. Otter other sets and cash if cheap enough. PRANK HARRIS, La Crescent, Houston Co.. Minn. TOEXCHANGE:— Setsof 263, 461, 465. 474b, 488, 501, 540. 581, 587, 598, 608, 681. 687, 735. 751, 756, 766 with full data. HARRY CUTLER, Saranac, Michigan. CABINETS: —Store boxes for insects or eggs also cabinets or single drawers, cases, etc. Apply to T. G- PRIDDEY, 371 Carlton street, Toronto, s2t CAMERA, Hall's typewriter, and coffee mill for sale. Magazines and story papers to ex- change for minerals or curios. H. N. BUG- BEE, Fltchburg, Mass. NEATLY and scientifically prepai'ed sets of 420 1-2, 428 n-2, 731 1-5, and others at very low prices. Satisfaction guaranted. Write for prices. W, L, & R. D, FOXHALL. Tarboro. No. Car, MY COLLECTION of birds eggs to exchange for first class shot gun or bicycle, or 25 cal. rifle, Stevens preferred, send for entire list of eggs, W. L, HART, Tacoma, 1106 Pacific Ave., Wash. TO EXCHANGE:— Fine sets of Mallard, Cin- namon Teal, Avocet, Black Stilt. Red-head and White-face Glossy Ibis. The latter can be sup- plied in series of from one to a dozen sets. Send your list excluding eggs catalogued at 25c or under. A. M. SHIELDS, Crocker Building, San Francisco. Jly2fc HOW TO MAKE MONEY! If you are out of employment and want a position, paying you from $50 to $100 monthly clear above ex- penses by working regularly, or, if you want to increase your present income from $200 to $500 yearly, by working at odd times, write the GLOBE CO., 723 Chestnut St,, Phila,, Pa,, stat- ing age, whether married or single, last or pres- ent employment, and you can secure a position with them by which you can make more money easier and faster than you ever made before in your life. Jlyr VIVE Cameras to exchange, any style, for desirable sets at one- third Lattin's list. Also rare typical singles. Send list of sets and sin- gles. L, D. SUMNER, 503 State St., Madison, Wis. a5t EXCHANGE : — Have fine sets of Osprey, Buzzard, Owls. Herons, etc , want Qiiail, Sora. Woodcock and other rare Delaware Valley sets. Correspondence with Delaware Valley collectors solicited. BENJ. A. CARPENTER, Salem, N. J. FOR EXCHANGE :--A 1 sets of eggs and some fine skins to exchange for fire-arms, jewelry, precious or semi-precious stones, mi- croscope, musical instruments, field glass or bicycle. Let me know what you have to offer and I will send list of eggs and skins. Will give good exchange. All letters answered. ADIN BURDICK, Lake City, Minn. FOR SALE:— A. O. U. Nos. 16 1-2, 50c; 51a 1-3, 24c; 70 2 3, 18c; 77 2-3, 24c; 79 1-1, 24c; 106 1-1, 10c; 115 1-2, $1.40; 263 1-4, 21c; 273 1-4. 30c; 333 1-4, 38c; 339 1-1, 14c: 839a 1-3, 70c; 406 1-4, 1-3, 24c; 413 1-6, 30c: 420a 1-2, 39c; 428 n-2. 80c: 429 n-2. 10c: 430 n-2, 80c; 431 n-2, n-2. n-2. 70c; 434 n-3. $1,00; per set. Write for complete list. Jacofins in red. black and yellow, $2.50 per pair. One pair Yellow crested Fantails, $4.00. All of above sent on approval it wished. J. O. JOHNSON, South- ington. Conn., Lock Box 550. FOOT BALL outfit. Mole skin pants and jacket, black sweater, orange and black cap, hose guard, shin guards, ankle supporters, cleated shoes. Make me cash offer. CLIFTON A. FOX, 535 West 61st street, Chicago, 111. THE OSPREY, one year to new subscribers not on Osprey ,s books, and one package of K. & P. preservative, together with full instruc- tions. Taxidenny made easy, for $1.15. This offer good until January ist. KERR & PER- HAM, Sandwich, 111. A BARGAIN;— For .50 cents I will furnish the following eggs. One of each species. Cali- fornia Quail, Barn Owl, Herring Gull, Ameri- can Coot, Burrowing Owl, Cactus Wren, West- ern Lark Sparrow, California King Bird, Bul- lock Oriole, Hooded Oriole. Cliff Swallow, Mocking bird, Linnet, Brown thrasher, Cali- fornia Towhee, H, S. Austin, Simi, Cal. WANTED:— Skins of Shore Larks and Song Sparrows, A series of 30 or 40 skins from a single locality, especially in the south, middle and north-western mountain regions. A large variety of California bird skins, reptiles, batrac'hiaris or fishes to offer in exchange. J. O SNYDER, Curator Zoological Museum. Stanford University, California. THE OOLOGIST. TO EXCHANGE:— Ontario sets with data as 692a 1-5. 705 1-4. 390 1-5, 5-a, -406 1-4. foi" some from other localities as 199, 202, 203. 59»i, etc., also many tirst class singles. R. T. ANDER- SON, Aylmer West, Ont. DA VIES NEST AND EGGS, 5th Ed. cloth. and Rowley's Art of Taxidermy, both prepaid $3.45. Davies Nest and Eggs and Osprey, Recreation, or any dollar periodical published, •f2.50. I would like to quote you prices before you buy books, or subscribe, or renew your subscription to any periodicals. All offei-s made in my "ads" dui'ing '98 still good. Lai-ge list of fine sets at bottom prices. Eggs taken in exchange for subscriptions and books. BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown. N. Y. FOR TRADE:— Pair live Great Horn Owls in fine plumage, two year.s old, can use Marlin or ■VVinchester repeater 22 Cal. or eggs in sets. FRED CARPENTER, 1511 South 28th street, Omaha, Neb. 109 choice showy '^ea Shells, 35 cents, 7 va- riety Indian Relics, ."r cents, 20 varieties curios- ities, 87 cents, 10 old "'US, IS cents, 20 variety Sea shells, 18 cent=. rndian hatchet, 25 cents. Spade. 20 cents. / ■'. '^ cents. Hve. 20 cents. Price list free. \VM. H. ARNOLD, Peacedale, R. I. TO EXCHANGE :—!•' !l 32 1-1, 5] a 1-3, 200 1-4, 203 1-5. 412 1-4, 705 n-3, 1 .'3 ■ 1-3, 7*f> 1-3. 1508 1-3, 758a 1-4. 725 1-4. 6-33 1-4, \^- th -195a. 613 n-5, 614 1-5, 616 1-5, 710 1-2, 683a 1-.3. 59c» 1-4. Want Oologist vol. V, Nos. 5, 6. 7: Vol. VI, No. 4, Vol. Ill, No. 4, also nest and eggs of the common western birds, especially subspecies of eastern birds. P, B. McKECHINE, 66 Bird street, Dorchester, Mass. MANDOLIN:— New. cost S14, to exchange for Baby Hawkeve Folding Pocket Kodak 314x4 or 4x5 camera. GUY POTTER, 127 West 3rd street. Peru, Indiana. TO EXCHANGE for eggs an old-fashioned muzzle-loading pistol, used in the Revolu- tionary war. ROSS S. BACON, Derby, Conn. TO EXCHANGE: -Birds of North America by Studer. Contains 119 hand-colored plates by Jasper, for 160 in eggs or $25 in cash. Cost $.50. Write for description. ROSS. S BACON, Derby, Conn. I WILL GIVE 20th Century bicycle lamp, Instructions in Hypnotism and Hypnotic The- rapenties (by mail) and sets for desirable sets with original data. Send lists. ISADOR S. TROSTLiER, Sta. B, 4246 Farnam St., Omaha, Nebraska. BOOKS:— I have several copies of Maynard's Sparrows and Finches of New England. $1.50 each, and sponges 85 cents each. THEADORE B.PARKER, 36 Beaumont Ave., Newtonville, Mass. FOR EXCHANGE:— A No. 1, Skins of Mag- pie, Holboell's Grebe, Pileated Wood pecker. Red Shafted Flicker, Steller's Jay, Canada Jay, Spurred Towhee, etc. Also about 40 first class sets with data. Wanted Indian relics, S. & W. revolver, anything. STEPH?:N P. HARWOOD, 8 West Preston street, Baltimore. FOR SALE : -My entire collection of over 150 sets, such as 243 1-4. 35 1-2, 37 1-1, 120c 1-4, 289 1-30, 729 1-4. 717a 1-4, 420c 1-2, 410 1-.5, 676 1-4, 487 1-5, 428 1-2. 751 1-5, .366 ]-5. 360a 1-4. 4S7 1-5, 663 1-3. Will sell whole hit at 1-6 catalogue value, or exchange for 4x5 Kodak in good condition. W. H. CONNER Y, 404 New Houston St., West. Savannah, Ga. WANTED:— Sets Of Raptores and Warblers, for which I can give rare Arizona and other sets. I particularly desire 331. 3-32 and 378 A. O. U. No's. F. C. WILLARD, 70 N. Cherry St., Galesburg, 111. " JySt FOR EXCHANGE:— A few shells for crys- tals. A. D. C, Box 21, Harwichport, Mass. FOR SALE:— Fine specimens of American Turquois. Will cut good settings at 25c to $1. This is a good chance to get a fine stone cheap. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Provi- dence, R. I. I WILL exchange btttterflies of Missouri for others from any part of the United States, common ones taken. H. SCHWARZ, 1520 La- fayette Ave , St. Louis, Mo. JySt BARGAIN.— 32 cal. collecting tube to fit 12 gauge gun. Uses 33 extra long brass shells. Just the thing for small birds. Cost $4.00, used but little, in good condition. Complete with 34 new primed shells, 44 slightly used shells, recapper, de-capper, leader, wad-cutter. 250 primers, all for $2.75 postpaid. Address CHAS. R. HIGBEE, JR., No. 13 Austin St., Hyde Park, Mass. FOR EXCHANGE at ONE-THIRD to three- fourths catalogue rates, RARE sets and sin- gles from LABRADOR, which are not quite first-class, including the following species: — Puftin, Black Guillemot, Mandt's Guillemot, Murre, Brunnick's Murre, Razor-bill, Kitti- wake. Leach's Petrel. Red-breasted Mei-ganser, Old-squaw, Northern Eider. Semipalmated Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, Willow Ptarmigan, Reinhardt's Ptarmigan, American Rough-leg, Short-eared Owl, Northern Raven, Redpoll, Lapland Longspur. Savannah Spar- row, White-crowned Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, American Pipit, and Grey-cheeked Thrush. Can use series of COMMON species. None but strictly first-class sets accepted. Taylor's Cat- alogue. No postals. Address, LOCK BOX 37, Arlington, Mass. EXCHANGE.— Unmounted photographs of live birds, photographic studies of birds, for unmounted photographs of live birds and nests, or prepared clavicles with the sterum. MATHILDE SCHLEGEL, East Aurora, N. Y. TO EXCHANGE.— First-class, sets and sin- gles, with data, send your list and receive mine. W. A. STRONG, San Jose, Cal. Marine Shells and Curios. I am now in a position to furnish in quantity all of the best species collected on the Gulf Coast and will be pleased to furnish prices on applica- tion. Best of reference given and satisfaction guaranteed. Collections sent on approval to par- ties giving satisfactory reference. Any not ap- proved can be returned at my expense. Address all orders to A. J. BARNES, Dunedin, Fla. Marine Curios and Shells. I make a specialty in collecting, pi'e- pai'ing and selling anything in the line of Marine Specimens obtainable on the Gulf Coast. I sell to the Collector as •well as to the Retail, Wholesale and Jobbing trade. J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. THE OOLOGIST. WANTED.— A good 4x5 Kodak, Eastman preferred. Will give good exchange in A 1 sets or singles. Send description of Kodak and receive my list. W. H. CONNERY, 404 New Houston St., West, Savannah, Ga. 50 var. U. S. Stamps, 50 var. Foreign, 10 var. unused Stamps, 110 choice var. of for 15c, post free. 10 different stamp papers 10c, post free. MEEKER BROS., Box 296, Bridgeport, Conn. FOR SALE.— Two sets Loon's eggs, $1,25 set. Also one Albino Hedge Hog, very large, nicely mounted. Make me an offer. ALVAH G. DORR, Bucksport, Me. A2t TO EXCHANGE.— Singles of this vicinity with data, to exchange for foreign stamps. J. W. RIFE, Gen. Delivery, Los Angeles, Cal. EASTMAN No. 4 Folding Kodak, 4x5, cost $50, made to load with roll of 100 films (or less) ; fine lens, and all in Al condition. Will ex- change for eggs or skins or both. J- P. BAB- BITT, Taunton, Mass. ^ FOR EXCHANGE.— First-class sets with data to exchange for other first-class sets with data. Southern or Western eggs preferred. EVERETT E. JOHNSON, 9 Bartlett St., Lew- Iston St., Maine. ANCIENT POTTERY fragments from var- ious states for sale. Nice specimen sent pre- paid on receipt of ten cents (stamps or silver). Satisfaction guaranteed. BURT OGBURN, Watsonville, Cal. 160 acres timberland, (Oak and Pine), in the fruit belt of Arkansas, for cash or first-class photo gallery. Title perfect. Some fruit and buildings. C E. PLEAS, Chipley, Fla. WILL sell a collection of eggs for f 12 cash or trade for good camera. Seventv-five different kinds. Address, FRANK TEMPLEMAN, 22 South Main St., Batavia, N. Y. FOR SALE —Scientific Books, will take in exchange books on birds, instruments or opera glasses. Send list of what you have and re- ceive mine. H.E.NEUMANN, 204 Rock St., Waterto^^Ti, Wis. 5 COINS. 5 Shells, 5 Minerals, 3 Eggs, or 8 Arrowheads for every 100 Omaha stamps or for 100 new issue revenues. No torn stamps ac- cepted. C. A. DAVIS, 1131 Elmwood Ave., Providence. R. I. TELEGRAPH RELAYS —I have two West- ern Union 150- volt relay instruments, almost new. For sale at S5 for the two or will ex- change for sets. C BARLOW, Santa Clara, Calif. WANTED.— Fine sets In exchange. Offer sets from Northwest Canada, Michigan, Indi- ana, Illinois will pay cash for sets. Send list. Have many rare sets. E. ARNOLD, Battle Creek, Mich. WANTED —Cooper's Ornithology of Califor- nia, part II the water birds, Elliott's North American Shore Birds. Fisher's Hawks and Owls of the United States, Raiue's Bird Nest- ing in Northwest Canada, full volumes of any Ornithological puDlicatlons, Oologist's instru- ments, and first-class eggs of any of the shore birds in exchange for first-class sets of 468 n-3. 500 5-4.510 1-4.8-3:518 3-4, n-4; 621 1-.5, 16; 622b 2-5. 1-4; 703 1-4, and manv other desirable sets. Write soon. HARRY H. DUNN, FuUerton, Orange Co.. Calif. . At Four Score. Dr. Miles' Nervine Restores Health. rNCLE EZEKIEL OBEAE. assessor and tax collector, Beverly, Mass., who has passed the 80th life mile stone, says: '•Dr. Miles' Eestorative Nervine has done a great deal of good. I suffered foryears from sleeplessness and nervous heart trouble. Would feel weary and used up in the morn- ing, had no ambition and my work seemed a burden. A friend recommended Dr. Miles' Nervine, and I purchased a bottle under protest as I had tried so many remedies un- successfully, I thought it no use. But it gave me restful sleep, a good appetite and restored me to energetic health. It is a grand good medicine, and I will gladly write anyone inquiring, full particulars of my sat- isfactory experience." I Dr. Miles' Remedies are sold by all drug- gists under a positive | guarantee, first bottle benefits or money re- funded. Book on dis- eases of the heart and nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart. Ind. H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, COLLECTORS, RALEIGH, N. C. First-class Skins of Birds and Mammals, Bird's Eggs, Reptiles and Batrachia both Alive and in Alcohol. Histological Ma- terial. Full data. Send stamp for lists. THE OOLOGIST KJiyrDAlO SHEL,L,S, etc. The White lyiiriknALd City Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens. *3. 50 smaller size, S2. 50 ama- teur size. *l. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $3. 100 Fossils, including fine Fish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several fine Ferns, etc., only S8. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from 35c to 81, very showy. Taxidermy in all its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIERS, Natural- ists Agency, 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, 111. NEW ENGLAND MINERALS. Rhomb Spar, R. 1.. Beryl. N. H. : Actinolite, R. I. ; Galenite. Mass. H pound specimens of either postpai'l for only 10 cents: or the four for only 30 cents. The above is only a sample of the bargains I am offering in New England Minerals. Write your wants and send for lists. I handle only good fresh material— no rubbish. ROBERT BURNHAM, No. 143 Gallup St. PROVIDENCE, R. 1. MEXICAN COINS. :c 2c and 5c nickel uncirculated, and ic copper. Set of 4 prepaid for only 12c. The nickel coins were in circula- tion only a few months in '82-'83 may become exceedinglv rare In a few years. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Providence, R, I. 'We are not enthusiastic! ^ Best Bicycle Lamp on Earth. r ITS SL'PEKliiRITY is shown in three principal points: tt TT'TfOIVES THE MOST LIGHT I STATS ALIGHT IN SPITE OF WIND AND JAR * 2l ii IS HANDSOME IN APPEARANCE » Send for circular or, better still, send ^2.50 which [5 l9 Ihe reasonable price at which we sell one, dellv- ^ |{^ ered anywhere. ^ [S R. E. DIETZ COMPANY - Manu- NFW YORK CITY [•) facture of Lun->3 a:i(l Jjuitem.^. ijjl ROBERT BURNHAM, DEALER IN PRECIOUS STONES, OPALS, CURIOS AND FINE MINERALS. Cutting and polishing Agates and Gem Stones, and setting the same in solid gold settings a specialty. 143 Gallup St., Providence, R. I. PRICE LIST OF GEMS. OPALS. Australian 50c to $40.00 per kt. Hungarian 50c to 50.00 Mexican 10c to 20.00 " Opal Scarf Pins set in Solid Gold in four siz- es, as follows: 75c, S1.25, 2.50, 3.50. STUDS. Screw or Separate Back, $1.00 to $3.00. Clus- ters to order. EAR RINGS... $3.00 to $.5.00 • RINGS, ETC., SET TO ORDER. Prices an application for special settings or extra fine stones. AMETHYST, TOPAZ, MOONSTONE, BLOODSTONE, AGATE, CROCIDOLITE, &c. In all forms and sizes for Rings, Pins, Charms, 10c to $5.00. Tourmaline 50c to $15.00 per kt. Aquamarine 50e to 5.00 " Part Exchange will be accepted in pay- ment during the next thirty days. Good Live Agents Wanted in all parts of the -world. Liberal cash commission paid. Having a large stock on hand. I will, for . short time, sellSO lbs. of good Minerals for $1 One to forty klnd.s as you want then, large or small. VI THE OOLOGIST. WANTED.— Well marked sets of Red-tailed and Red-shoiUdered Hawk. Broad-winged Hawk, also several sets of Cedar Bird. Red- eyed Vireo, Yellow and Black-billed Cuckoo, Meadow Lark. American Bittern, Field Plov- er, Kildeer. Downy Woodpecker, Loon. Tufted Puffin, Cassin's Ank, American Woodcock, Pigeon Guillemot. Pied-billed Grebe, Blue and Green-winged Teal. Sooty Tern, Royal Tern, Caspian Tern. Bridled Tern, Leach's Petrel, Wood Duck, Hooded Merganser, Bald Eagle, Sparrow Hawk, Screech Owl. Purple Gallinule, Sandhill Crane, Willet, Californian Quail, Bob White, Passenger Pigeon. Turkey Vulture, Barred Owl, Great Horned Owl, Flicker, Chuck- willswidow, Poorwill, Ruby-throated Hum- mingbird and nests, Prairie Horned Lark, Os- pi'ev. Painted Bunting. Tree Swallow, Purple Martin, Mocking Bird, Cactus Wren, Robin and others. I can offer sets from Iceland. Lab- rador, Northwest Canada and Alaska such as No. 2. 13, 20. 21, 27. 37. 40. .51, 51a, .56. 71. 79. 86, 90, 104, 117, 119, 132, 136, 138, 1J2, 143, l-!6, 1-17, 1.51, 1.52, 155, 1.59, leO, 172, 19.5, 217, 223. 869. 275. 28.5. 301. 342, 335, 385, 421. 473. 477a. 487, 493. 528. 694. 698. 721b, 739, 765 and many otherss. I have thousands of eggs to offer in exchange. WALTER RAINE. 181 Bleecker, St., Toronto. Canada. THE OOLOGIST A FULL YEAR FOR ONLY 25 CENTS. If you do not care to accept the .50c premium offer made in this issue we will until Jan. 1, 1899, accept subscriptions at 2.5c each and in ad- dition mail each accepting the offer a coupon good for a 25 word Exchange Notice, free. Ad- dress plainly, FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, Albion. N. Y. RUN And SAVE MORE \li\m HALF on /^V' ihecostof Choice North Dakota Sets. Personally collected. Very full data. Pre- paid on orders exceeding $3. On orders exceed- ing $10, ten per cent, discount. No exchanges. I refer (though without permission) to Wm. Brewster, C. W. Crandall, Thos. H. Jackson, J. Parker Norris, G. Frean Morcom, A. H. Frost. H. G. Parker. O. W. Knight, Ludwig Kumlien and other high class collectors. Per Egg American Avocet, 2-4,3-1 $ 40 American Bittern, 1-5 1-4 40 Wilson's Phalarope, 3-4 1-1 25 Bartramian Sandpiper, 3-4 1-3 1-2 15 Belted Piping Plover, 1-8 .50 American Herring Gull, 2-2 15 Prairie Sharp-tail Grouse, 1-6 1-8 1-13 20 Western Horned Owl. 1-3 75 American Long-eared Owl, 3-5 20 Short-eared Owl, 1-2 1-1 40 Ferrug. Rough-legged Hawk, 2-5 4 4 1-3-1-1.. 75 Swainson's Hawk, 2-3 7-2 „ 20 Marsh Hawk. 6-.5 4-4 20 Western Night Hawk 1-2 20 Western Meadow Laru, 1-7 lO Baird's Sparrow, n-5 (end blown) 50 Chestnut collared Longspur, 1-6 1-5 3-4 3-3.. 15 Prairie Honied Lark 1^3 1-6 10 Canvas-back n-6 (down only) 40 Lesser Scaup n-9 (down only) 25 Baldpate, n 8 n-9 n-lO n-U 2-7 2-8 1-9 25 Gadwall, n-8 n-10 1-7 25 Shoveller, n-10 2-9 3-8 1-7 15 Pintail, 3-8 15 American Golden-eye, 1-11 2-10 1-9 25 Ruddy, 1-9 1-7 15 Green- winged Teal, n- 3 50 Blue-winged Teal, n-10 n-9 1-13 1-9 lo Mallard, 1-8 10 Redhead, 1-151-11 _ 15 Duck's nest or down 25c extra. EUGENE S. ROLFE, Jul2t Minnewaukan, N. Dak. CABINETS, SendlOcts for photo of our speciality— Self Locking. T perches— Oak sam- ples by mail 8c,l0c and 15c; also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels. &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 58MOtf 32-oalibre e artridse«! fora Marlin.Model 180 », Insects of North Am- ica, 4to, rsipp, 28 plates 2 50 Thomas, "Acridte of North America," 262 pp, 4to 1 50 "Science,-' Vol. I to XXII, complete, [I to XI In cloth, balance loose] '25 00 "Nature." Vol. XXXI to XXXIV, unbound, cost?13 4 50 "Inset Life," Vols. I to VII, complete T 00 "Microscopical Bulletin," Vol. I to IX, complete 3 00 "The American Monthly Microscopical Journal," Vol. IX to XIII, complete 3 CO Wood, "Animate Creation," popular edi- tion of 'Our Living World,'' revised and adopted to American Zoology byHolder." 60 parts, complete, 3o page oleographs, 60 plates and in addition profusely illus- trated. [$15] 7 50 Ornithology and Oology. Coues, E. Key of North American Birds.. 6 98 Check List of American Birds 3 95 Langille, Rev. J. H. Our Birds in their Haunts 1 80 Merriam, Florence A. Birds through an Opera Glass 68 Raine, Walter. Bird Nesting in North- west Canada 1 80 Barrow's, The English Sparrow in North America, 400 pp 65 Ridgway, Catalogue of Old World Birds in National Museum 10 ♦Warren, Birds of Pennsylvania, 100 col- oied plates 3 24 Short, Birds of Western New York, '96 ed. 10 The \A/^ilson Quarterly and Semi-Annual, the oftlcial organ of the Wilson Or- nithological Chapter. Six issues, viz: Vol. I, No. 3; Vol. II. Nos. 1 and 8; Vol. Ill, No. 1; Vol. IV, No. 1 and 2. Nearly 300 pages of valuable contributions to Ornithology (1.70) 5 THE OOLOGIST Cook, A. J., Birds of Michigan. This copy Is the 1^93 report of the Michigan Board of Agriculture which contains 526 pages and is bound in cloth. 165 of these pages, illustrated with 115 en- gravings, are devoted to the Birds of Michigan in addition to which and the annual report the following Bul- letins are alsopublished in the volume : ••Vegetable Tests"" •27 pages: •Spurry. Spergula arvensis." 6 pages; •Flat Pea. Lathy rus silvestris. 5 pages; Fruit Notes and Spraying 17 pages : Potato Experiment. .59 pages; Honey Analy- sis. 13 pages; Inspection of Fertilizers. ^2 pages : Locust and Horn Fly.6 pages ; Soils of Michigan. 13 pages: Eighty New Strawberries. 13 pages: Report of exhibit at Columbian Exposition. (Entomological, Botanical. Chemical. &c). 37 pages; Forestry. 21 pages 97 Shufeldt, M. D., R. V/., •'Scientific Taxid- ermy for Musetuus." 71 full page plates. 67 pages, text, unbound 1 10 Young Oologist, Vol. I and II. cloth bound 65 Oologist, Vol. in and IV. cloth bound 6© Vol. IX. "&2. 300 pages, cloth oound 67 Thirty back numbers, issued from ISW to 1896, inclusive, my selectioii 63 Oologist and Young Oologist. Eighty back nitmbers. All different. (4.00). Lot pr-^paid only '.- 1 40 Twenty back numbers issued prior to 1890. my selection, prepaid 41 Almost any back issue can be furnished. Send stamp for list and prices. Natural Science News. Vol. I complete. 52 ntimbers. only six complete vols. left. Will send you one for only 1 00 Vol. n complete. 14 numbers, only 30 Ornithological and Natural History Publi- cations can famish back No's of al- most anything published in America during the past ^ years. Write wants. Fill your gaps while you can. I can no". furnish odd numbers, complete volumes and in some cases complete files of the following and dozens of others; Ank. yidiologUt. Oiprey. Ornithologist and Oologist. Science. Popular Science Monthly. Sature. Canadian Entorrtologiit . Ingeet Life. American Xaturalist. Archaeologist, Xautilus. Microscopical Bulletin. Microscope. Microscopical Journal. Hoosier Xaturalist, Ore- gon yaturalisL Io>ra Ornithologist. Sunny South Oologist. Taxidermist . Mineral Collector. Harck- eye Ornithologist and Oologist. Wisconsin Xat- ^iralist. Old Curiosity Shop. Ornithologist and Botanist. Bay State Oologist, Collector's Monthly. Random Xotes. &c.. &:c. Taxidermy, Guides, &c. Ballard. H. H., Three Kingdoms. Hand- book of Agassiz Association (75) 65 Goodale's, Few Common Plants (20) 14 Hyatt's Sponges (•29) 16 Bowditch's Physiology (20) 13 Hornaday, ^V. T., Taxidermy and Zoolog- ical Collecting (2..%; 2 10 Lattin. Frank H., The Oologists' Hand- book. 1«>^ (25) IS The Standard Catalogue of North Amer- ican Birds Eggs. 1836 (25) 05 Hyatt's About Pebbles 10 Tassin. How to Collect Minerals 03 Bert, Primer and Scientific Knowledge.. - 42 Standard American Stamp Catalogue, '94 2-2 • Davie, Naturalists' Manual ^24 Naturalists' Directory of the U. S. and Canada. Nearlv 6000 classified names and address. Edition of '90 (2.00) 80 Edition of 95 (•2.00; 1 00 International Directory. '95(2.50) - 90 Zoology and Natural History. Hornaday, Directions for Removing and Preserving Skins of Mammals 25 Extermination of the American Bison. ISijpp. 22 plates 1 35 Kumlien, et al. Natural History of Arctic America, 180pp 1 35 Lucas, Preparation of Rough Skeletons.. 15 Scudder, Nomenclator Zoologicus (An Alphabetical list of all Generic names employed by Naturalists for Recent and Fossil Animals from earliest times to 18S0). 7l6pp 3 00 Stejneger, Directions for Collecting Rep- tiles and Batrachians 25 Buffon's Natural History For Children, Cloth and Gilt. 32 Colored Plates 36 Colton, Practical Zoology (90) 65 Heilprin, Angelo. Animal Life of Our Sea Shore (1.35) 1 10 Jordan, D. S., Manual of the Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United States 02.50) 2 25 Manton, ^V. P., Primary Methods in Zool- ogy 41 Mivart, St. G., The Cat. A Studv of Back- boned Animals (.3.50) 2 29 Orton, Comparative Zoology, Structural and Systematic. 3.50 engravings 1 07 ♦Packard, A. S., Brief Course in Zoology... 76 Stearns, "W. A., Notes on the Natural His- tory of Labrador (l.(X),> 41 ♦^Vood. J. G., Illustrated Natural Historv (1-2-5) 58 White's Natural History of Selbourne 86 Vol. IL Letters 18 Ballard, World of Matter 95 Allen, Monograph of North American Pin- nipeds 2 34 Coues, Fur Bearing Animals 1 53 Microscopy. Manton, W. P., Beginnings with Ihe Mic- roscope (50) 40 •■Wythe, The Microscopist: A Compen- dium of Microscopic Science (8.00) 3 20 Miscellaneous. •Agassiz, A Journey in Brazil 156 Livingstone's Explorations. Africa, and the Herald Stanley Expedition (1.75) . . 86 Chute's Physics (1.2.5) 81 Address, Frank H. Lattin, Albion, N. Y. The OCoGiST A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO OOLOGY. ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. VOL. XV. NO. 11. ALBION. N. Y.. NOV., 1898. Whole No. 148 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. Brief special announcements. "Wants," "Exclianges" "For Sales," Inserted m this department ror 25c per 2.5 words. Notices over 2.t words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted m payment at one-third list rates. What's Your Number? Examine the number following your name on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It denotes when your subscription expired or win expire. No. 148 your subscription expires with this Issue ISO " •■ " Jan.."99- 1.55 " " •• ■• June ■ •• 160 •■ •• Nov. " " Intermediate numbei-s can easily be deter- mined. If we have you credited wrong we wish to rectify. WANTED— Outfit for making rubber stamps. ROBERT BURNHAM. 142 Gallup St., Provi- dence, R. I. TO EXCHANGE.— The following singles for sets, 239. 337. 378. 423. 456, 461, 467, 475, 483, 494, 495, 501, .529, 540. 560. 581. .587. 624. 653. 674, 681, 705, r31. 7-^4. L. S. HORTON. Gretna. N. Y. TAXIDERMIST and ornithological collector. Lessons given personally or by mail. Work exchanged for skins. Persons wishing to make collections. Address, C. K. MASON, Kansas, 111. WILL EXCHANGE.— Black Hills specimens. Minerals. Fossils, Limestone Crystals, Gyp- sum, Chalcedony for curios and specimens from elsewhere, books. Merchandise, etc. CHAS. HAAS, Whitewood. S. D. WANTED.— Good pair of climbing irons with straps complete, also Coues" Key. or Kidge- way's Manual of North American Birds: will give in exchanee A No. I sets at one-half list price. BURNELL FRANKLIN. Pasadena, California. FOR exchange or sale, 300 Arrowheads. Axes etc. Collection of old stamps, also eggs. Ad- dress, FRED JOHNSON, Box ,53, Bolivar, Mo NEW Marlln rei>eater 25-20 for $40 of desira- ble sets or f 10 cash. WUl buv sets of 196, 197, and 200. if cheap. W. E. SAUNDERS, London. Ontario. NOTICE.— Wish old pennies, half-pennies and correspondence with parties wanting to exchange fine sets next season. I collect Os- prey. Vultures. Hawks. Herons. Fish Crow, Owls. Swallows, etc. BENJ. A. CARPENTER, Salem. N. J. OOLOGISTS, Taxidermists attention. Fin- est grade supplies, tools, specimens, artificial eyes. Lowest prices, carriage paid to States. Write for catalogue free. H. BOOTH, 8 Cran- bury Boad. Fulham. England. TO EXCHANGE.— Autographs. Bird Eggs. Old Books and papers. Coins, etc. for Auto- graphs and old manuscript will also pav cash for desirable autographs. F. O. NELSON. 237 S. Main Street, Butte, Mont. WANTED.— Old guns and pistols, cap and ball pepper box style preferred. Will pay cash or trade. First-class eegs in sets or singles. CLAUD FULLER. 1208 W. 24th St., Kansas City, Mo. WANTED to exchange eggs of New York State and manv others for eggs of other states. Send Ust and receive mine. ED. T. SCHENCK. 69 Smith Ave.. GloversvlUe. N. Y. WANTED.— A 10 or 12 gauge shot gun or a Winchester rifle: also tent. Will give in ex- change a No. 1 mounted si)ecimen. first-class skins eggs in sets with data and part cash. Send for list. OAKLEY WALKER, Box 186. Mayfleld, Ky. FOR SALE:— A. O. U. Nos. 13a 1-1. 40c: 86 1-1 20c: 40 1-3, 40c: 77 1-3. 30c: 79 1-1. 24c: 211 1-10, 60c- 214 1-11. 50c: 263 1-4. 24c; 117 2-1. 30c: 273 1-4, 30c 406 1-4, 20c; 490a 12, 39c: 467 1-4. 34c: 587 1-5, Kc 614 1-5, 30c: 6S2a 1 5, 20c: 624 1-4 24c: 659 1-4, 35c 674 1-4, 34c; 683 1--, :V)c: 713 1-4. i.5- T21 1-7. 28c 743 1-8. 70c: 65 1-4. '■■, )c: Snapping 'i' irtle 1-8, 30c Jacobins in red ;•' I black, 13 t<> $5 per pair one pair Yellow , f>sted FantaiN. f4. J. O JOHN.SO.N'. Luck L'X. 550, Southmgton, Conn SEND ME anythii .: really curious, to value of 30c or more, such us Indian relics. alUgator teeth or eggs, shark or skate eggs, sea horses, echinoderms. etc. with locality, etc. and I will send in return a 4x5 photo of Tule Wren's nest in Tules. from Nature. W. H. HILLER, 147 W. 23d St.. Los Angeles, CaUf. WILLSIE CAMERA— New. leather covered, time and instantaneous, holds twelve cut films 2x21-4 costing 3c each, does first class work, carrj- in large pocket, in focus three feet and over, just the thine for birds nests, cost J5, to exchange for equal value back numbers bird magazines or books. E. B. WEBSTE i{. Cresco. Iowa. ^l-^K THE OOLOGIST. TO EXCHANGE:— Shells, Corals and Echin- oderms from California, Central America and West Indies for Guitar, Washburn Mandolin, Books, Typewriter or offers. No specimens wanted. E. C. STARKS, 414 Elm St., Wash- ington, D. C. SALE OR EXCHANGE: -A 1 singles, Gold- en Eagle. Royal Tern, Noddy Pintail, Willet, A. O. U. No's 51a, 54, 120. 12J, 132, 184. 221, 264, 430 nest, 196 and many others. Also Old Coins, Nests, other curios and an American bull dog, double action revolver. Will sell or exchange for gun or camera. Send for list. FORDYCE HAMMOND, Cuba, N. Y. COLLECTION 500 varieties stamps, and In- ternational stamp album (latest edition) 400 page illustrated stamp catalogue and a 22 inch diamond frame bicycle. Wanted cash offers. CLIFTON A. FOX. Englewood, Ills. FOR SALE:— Valuable collection 2030 var- ieties U. S. and foreign stamps. Specimens generally in good condition and collected pre- vious to 1888. W. H. SINTON, 713, Lennox,St., Baltimore, Md. IF other parties, advertisements turn out like mine they cant complain. I expect I could have exchanged 20 times the number of specimens I had, but I shall try and be better prepared the coming season to meet the de- mand. B. A. CARPENTER. Salem, N. J. CONCERT Roller Organ in first class con- dition with seventeen pieces of music valued at fifteen dollars to exchange for phonograph records or offers. N. R. CHRISTIE, Larkspur, Colo. TO EXCHANGE for sets, mounted birds or books on ornithology, 50 first class singles. GLEN M. HATHORN. 1600 E, Avenue, Cedar Rapids, la. FIRST CLASS Natural History specimens "for" standard Books on Ornithology, Conch- olofy. Zoology, Bendire's work, copies of the Auk. Address JOHN B. WHEELER. East Templeton, Mass. TO EXCHANGE.— Fine sets of California Birds eggs, including several species of Hum- mingbirds, for others not in my collection. Send lists and receive mine. J. J. SCHNEID- ER, Box 1509, Anaheim, Cal. FOR SALE.— Three sets out of six taken: Le Conte's Sparrow, with nests, parent, and pho- tographs, in situ. Wanted.— Sets of 84, 105, 114, 123a, :189, 134, 148, J52, 162, 193. 185, 227, 287, 296, 300b, 301, 307, 310b, 339a, 373d, 384 and many others, cash or trade. P. B. PEABODY, Hal- lock, Minn. SEEDS— Packet of assorted Haytian seeds. Some very rare and singular. 25 cents. Stamps taken. T. G. PRIDDLEY, 371 Carlton Street, Toronto. s2t SHELLS:— 50 land and fresh water shells from Haiti, assorted. 50 cents. Post. free. T. G. PRIDDEY. 371 Carlton street, Toronto. s2t OVERSTOCKED: — Choice sets with full original data for sale at reasonable prices, or exchange for desirable sets, or large singles. List for 2c stamp. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene street, Augusta, Ga. sSt CABINETS: —Store boxes for insects or eggs also cabinets or single drawers cases, etc. Apply to T. G- PRIDDEY, 371 Carlton Street, Toronto. s2t HOW TO MAKE MONEY! If you are out of employment and want a position, paying you from $50 to ■$100 monthly clear above ex- penses by working regularly, or, if you want to increase your present income from $200 tc $500 yearly, by working at odd times, write the GLOBE CO., 723 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa., stat- ing age, whether married or single, last or pres- ent employment, and you can secure a position with them by which you can make more money easier and faster than you ever made before in your life. ' Jlyr VIVE Cameras to exchange, any style, for desirable sets at one-third Lattin's list. Also rare typical singles. Send list of sets and sin- gles. L. D. SUMNER, 503 State St., Madison, Wis. a5t FOR SALE:— Fine specimens of American Turquois. Will cut good settings at 2.5c to $1. This is a good chance to get a fine stone cheap. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Provi- dence, R. I. TO EXCHANGE:— I have a fine lot of Land, Fresh Water and Marine Shells to exchange- for Indian relics. BENTON HOLCOMB, West Granby, Hartford Co., Conn. s3t WANTED:— Auks single copies or volumes previous to and including 1896. Will give cash or Davies' new Nest and Egg book. Write what you have. JAMES H. HILL, New Lon- don, Conn., P. O. Box 485. a4t PUBLICATIONS, EGGS, BOOKS WANTED. I will allow 50c each for any back number of the "Auk'" you may have, if in good condition and sent prepaid. You to take your full pay in Eggs, Shells (showy or scientific), Corals, Echinoderms, Fossils, Minerals, Curios, Novel- ties, &c. as listed inthe Premium List I can also use on same terms the following numbers of the OoLOGisT at prices quoted: June, 1888. 25c; July-Aug , 1886, 20c; Jan. -Feb , 1887 or Dec, 1886 with same attached, 10c; June-Sept., 1887, 15c; Apr.. 1889, 15c; Jan-Feb., 1886, 10c; Jan., 1895, 5c; March, 1897, .5c; May, 1897. 5c. All must- be complete, clean, and in good condition. I will also accept back No's of Ornithologist and Oolo- gist, Recreation, Insect Life, any issue and in any quantity at 5c per copy on same terms. (I will allow 25c for Oct., '93 and Feb., '94 ''Nids,'' also for October and December '96 Osprey.y If you have other publications along my line. Write and state what is wanted. I can also use books on subjects pertaining to Natural History if in good condition and cheap, also A No. 1 sets of eggs with data at V4"Stand- ard" rates. Lists of books and eggs must be submitted for my selection or approval before sending. Address at once FRANK H. LAT- TIN, Albion, N. Y. MEXICAN COINS, ic, 2c and 5c nickel, uncirculated, and Ic copper. Set of 4 prepaid for only 12c. The nickel coins were in circula- tion only a few months in '82-'83 may become exceedingly rare In a few years. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Providence, R. I. Marine Curios and Shells. I make a specialty in collecting, pre- paring and selling anything in the line of Marine Specimens obtainable on the Gulf Coast. I sell to the Collector as well as to the Retail, Wholesale and Jobbing trade. J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla, THE OOLOGIST. l^Yeam were required to perfect our new "Uesta" CuNlar Lantern "vhich we now offer as some- thing extraordi- nary in the Lantern line. It has the Railroad Lantern's rugged constitu^ lion joined to the tubular system, and ' the result is a splendid light-giving, wear and abuse resister. We will, if desired, mail our special Circular of the " Vesta''' Lantern ; or, upon receipt of $r.oo, we will send you (freight prepaid) the very best Lan- tern for gene^-al service you ever saw. Why not "see it " on those terms ? Onr Illustrated Catalogue is Mailed Free. R. E. DIETZ CO., 60 Laight St., New York. CITABLIIHCD IN 1840. Only good Lanterns are stamped " DIETZ.'^ SHORTHAND Ho;r' ELF-TAUCHT study of the Manual of Phonography, by Benn Pitman and Jerome B. Howard. A perfect self-in- structor. Over 355,000 sold. Thousands have mastered it ; so can you. Sold by all booksellers, or we v/ill send with Phono- graphic Reader and Phonographic Copy Book, post-paid, for $1.25. Catalog and full infor- mation free to those who wish to investi- gate first. Send name on postal card. THE BENN PITMAN SYSTEM has for 44 years been the standard. Called by U. S. Bureau of Education " The Amer- ican System." First prize. World's r'aii. The Phonographic Institute Co., 222 W. 4th St.. Cincinnati, Ohio. CRANKLIN lE^R^^fjf MICH. Rates, »1.50 to »2.00 ptT Day. Only one block from Woodward and Jefferson Aves. Elevator Service, Steam Heat, Electric Lights, Tile Floors, Etc H. H. JAMES &. SON, Prop'rs. ' HOUSE SAVE MORE MN HALF on ^^he cost of -Xartrid^es 33-calibre cartridges for a Marlin, Model 1892, cost only $5.00 a thousand. 33-calibre cartridges for any other re- peater made, cost !S13.00 a thousand. You can save the entire cost of your Marlin on the first two thousand cartridges. AVhy this is so is fully explained in the Marlin Hand liook for shooters. It also tells how to care for tirearms and how to use them. How to load cartridges with the different kinds of black and smokeless powders. It gives trajectories, ve- locities, penetrations and 1000 other points of interest to sportsmen. 198 pages. Free, if you will send stamps for postage to THE MARLIN FIREARMS CO., New Haven, Conn. IMIMCD A I e SHELi^S, etc. The White IVIInCnALO city collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens, $3. 50 smaller size, $2. 50 ama- teur size, 81. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $3. 100 Fossils, including fine. Fish, Trilobite, Crinoids, Corals, Sponges, several fine Ferns, etc., only $8. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from S5c to 81, very showy. Taxidermy in all Its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIERS, Natural- ists Agency, 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, 111. NEW ENGLAND MINERALS. Rhomb Spar, R. 1., Beryl, N. H. ; Actinolite, R. I. ; Galenite, Mass. M pound specimens of either postpaid for only 10 cents; or the lour for only 30 cents. The above is only a sample of the bargains I am offering in New England Minerals. Write your wants and send for lists. I handle only good fresh material— no rubbish. ROBERT BURNHAM, No. 143 Gallup St., PROVIDENCE, R. 1. H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, COLLECTORS, RALEIGH, N. C. First-class Skins of Birds and Mammals^ Bird's Eggs, Reptiles and Batrachia both Alive and in Alcohol. Histological Ma- terial. Full data. Send stamp for lists. THE OOLOGIST. ROBERT BURNHAM, From Extreme Nervousness. DEALER IN PRECIOUS STONES, OPALS, CURIOS AND FINE MINERALS. Cutting and polishing Agates and Gem Stones, and setting the same in solid gold settings a specialty. 143 Gallup St.. Providence, R. I. PRICE LIST OF GEMS. OPALS. Australian.. 50c to $40.00 per kt. Hungarian 50c to 50.00 Mexican 10c to 20.00 " Opal Scarf Pins set in Solid Gold in four siz- es, as follows: 75c, $1.25, 2.50, 3.50. STUDS. Screw or Separate Back, $1.00 to $3.00. Clus- ters to order. EAR RINGS $2.00 to $5.00 RINGS, ETC., SET TO ORDER. Prices an application for soecial settings or extra fine stones. AMETHYST, TOPAZ, MOONSTONE, BLOODSTONE, AGATE, CROCIDOLITE, &c. In all forms and sizes for Rings, Pins, Charms, 10c to $5.00. Tourmaline .5Qc to $15.00 per kt. Aquamarine 50c to 5.00 Part Exchange will be accepted in pay- ment during the next thirty days. Good Lrive Agents Wanted in all parts of the world. Liberal cash commission paid. Having a large stock on hand. I will, for . short time, sell 20 lbs. of good Minerals for $1 One to forty kinds as you want then, large or small. THAT no one remedy can contain the elements necessary to cure all diseas- es, is a fact well known to everyone. Dr. Miles' System of Eestorative Remedies consists of seven distinctively different preparations, each for its own purpose. Mrs. L. C. Bramley, 37 Henry St., St. Cath- erines, Ontario, writes: "For years I suf- fered from extreme nervousness and annoy- ing constipation, developing into palpitation and weakness of the heart. I was unable to • sleep, suffered much from headache, pain in my left side, palpitation and a constant feeling of weakness and prostration. I began using Dr. Miles' Nervine, Heart Cure and Nerve and Liver Pills and the Anti-Pain Pills to relieve sudden paroxysms of pain and headache. I soon felt much improved and the pains and aches and weariness left me. I then took Dr. Miles' Restorative Tonic and am now restorea to my former good health." Dr. Miles' Remedies | are sold by all druf gists under a positive I guarantee, first bottle | benefits or money re- funded. Book on dis- eases of tlie heart and| nerves free. Address, DR. MILES MEDICAL CO.. Elkhart, Ind. WANTED-BRAINS Send for our handsome views of publie tuildings, statues and avenues of Washington City. This book cost us manj dollars. It will he sent to you for nothing. Write us to-day. Can you think of something to patent ? Protect your ideas: they may tring you wealth. Before applying for patent, get our literal offers and Inventor's Assistant. Banger in delay. COPP & CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington, D. C. THE OOLOGIST Chachalaca, 3 1 20 Band-tailed Pigeon, 2 2 00 Red-billed Pigeon, 1 50 "White-crowTied Pigeon, 2 S 00 Mourning Dove, 2 06 White-fronted Dove, 2 70 winged Dove, 2 30 Mexican Ground Dove, 2 70 Inca Dove, 2 1 50 Turkey Vulture, 3 1 50 Black Vulture, 2 1 50 Marsh Hawk, 3 1 05 5 175 Cooper's Hawk, 3 90 5 1 25 Harris's Hawk, 3 150 European Buzzard, 3 1 20 Red-tailed Hawk, 2 3 00 Red-shouldered Hawk, 2 70 " 4 1 05 Florida Red-shouldered Hawk, 2 1 20 Swainson's Hawk. 2 1 00 Rough-legged Hawk, 3 1 20 Ferruginous Rough-legged Hawk, 3 7 50 Merlin. 3 1 50 Kestrel. 4 80 American Sparrow Hawk. 3 60 5 1 00 Desert Sparrow Hawk. 3 1 05 Audubon's Caracara, 3 3 00 American Osprey. 2 1 00 3 1 50 American Barn Owl, 4 l 60 American Long-eared Owl, 4 _ 1 40 " 5 1 75 Short-eared Owl, 5 7 50 Barred Owl, 3 4 50 Florida-barred Owl, 2 2 50 Screech Owl, 3 1 05 '■ 4 2 00 " 5 2 50 Florida Screech Owl, 4 2 00 Texan Screech Owl, 3 1 20 California Screech Owl, 4 _ 1 80 Mexican Screech Owl, 2 2 00 Great Horned Owl. 2 2 50 Western Horned Owl, 2 2 00 Burrowing Owl, 8 1 60 '■ 9 1 80 Groove-billed Ani, 6 4 50 Road-runner. 4 1 00 Mangrove Cuckoo, 4 4 00 Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 2 20 Black-billed Cuckoo, 4 60 2 _.. 30 Belted Kingfisher, 5 1 00 Hairj- Woodpecker, 4 2 00 Downy Woodpecker, 3 60 4 80 Red-naped Sapsucker, 2 2 00 Red-headed Woodpecker, 5 40 California Woodpecker, 5 2 00 Red-bellied Woodpecker, 4 _ 1 00 Golden-fronted Woodpecker, 5 1 76 Gila Woodpecker, 3 4 50 Flicker, 7 21 9 27 Red-shafted Flicker, 8 80 Northwestern Flicker, 6 1 50 Chuck-wills-widow, 2 3 00 "Whip-poor-will, 2 3 00 Merrill's Paraque, 2 5 00 Nighthawk, 2 80 "Western Nighthawk, 2 80 Florida Nighthawk, 2 1 50 Texan Nighthawk, 2 80 Blaik-chinned Hummingbird, n-2 1 20 Costa's Hummingbird, n-2 1 20 Anna's Humiiiingbird, n-2 1 20 Rufous Hummingbird, n-2 1 20 .Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, 4 40 Kingbird, 3 09 Gray Kingbird. 4 2 CO CoTich's Kingbird. 4 4 00 Arkansas Kingbird, 3 5 Cassia's Kingbird, 4 (1 dam) ■ 1 CrestedJFlycatcher, 5 MexicanCrested Flycatcher, 5 1 Lawrence's Flycatcher, 3 2 Phoebe, 4 5 _ Say's Phoebe, 5 "Wood Pewee, 2 3 "Western "Wood Pewee, 3 Acadian Flycatcher, 3 4 Traill's Flycatcher, 3 Alder Flycatcher, 4 Least Flycatcher, 4 _ Vermilion Flycatcher, 3 3 Skylark. 3 Prairie Horned Lark, 4 Desert Horned Lark, 3 Texan Horned Lark, 5 1 American Magpie, 6 Yellow-billed Magpie, 5 2 Pinon Jay, 2 5 Blue Jay, 5 '• 4 Florida Blue Jay, 4 I American Crow, 4 5 Florida Crow, 5 2 Fish Crow, 5 , _ 1 Starling, 6 4 Bobolink, 4 1 Red-eyed Cowbird, 1 Yellow-headed Blackbird, 4 Red-winged Black'olrd, 4 Sonoran Redwing, 4 2 Badiaman Redwing, 4 2 Bicolored Blackbird, 3 Meadowlark, 5 4 Mexican Meadowlark, 5 2 "Western Meadowlark, 6 Hooded Oriole, 4 2 Orchard Oriole. 5 Baltimore Oriole, 4 5 Bullock's Oriole, 4 Purple Grac'Kle, 5 _ Bronzed Grackle, 4 5 Great-tailed Grackle, 4 Boat-tailed Grackle, 3 4 Purple Finch, 4 California Purple Finch, 4 1 House Finch, 5 St. Lucas House Finch, 4 1 Redpoll, 3 1 American Goldfinch, 5 " " n-4 1 Western Goldfinch, 6 Arkansas Goldfinch. 3 Mexican Goldfinch. 5 2 Lawrence's Goldfinch, 5 1 European Goldfinch, 5 1 •' Tree Sparrow, 5 Snowflake, 3 1 (1 dam), 2 Chestnut-collared Longspur, 3 1 McCown's Longspur, 3 3 Vesper Sparrow. 4 Savannah Sparrow, 4... Lark .Sparrow, 4 "Western Lark Sparrow, 4 "White-crowned Sparrow, 5 2 Gambel's Sparrow, 4 Chipping Sparrow, 4 Slate-colored Junco, 5 1 Oregon Junco. 4 2 Black-throated Sparrow. 3 1 THE OOLOGIS'J Song Sparrow. 4 12 5 15 Desert Song Sparrow, 5 1 75 Mountain Song Sparrow, 4 1 00 Heerman's Song Sparrow, 4 3? Samuel's Song Sparrow, 5 40 Rusty Song Sparrow, 5 2 OO Sooty Song Sparrow, 5 2 50 Swamp Sparrow, 4 48 Towhee, 3 30 White-eyed Towhee, (1 dam.) 4 1 75 Arctic Towhee, 4 3 00 Green-tailed Towhee, 3 1 50 Canon Towhee. 3 1 50 St. Lucas Towhee, 3 3 00 California Towhee, 3 40 Ahert's Towhee, 3 2 25 Cardinal, 3 15 Gray-tailed Cardinal, 3 1 05 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 4 40 Black-headed Grosbeak, 8 45 Blue Grosbeak, 4 1 00 Indigo Bunting, 4 32 n-3 35 Lazuli Bunting, 4. 80 Painted Bunting, 3 30 Dickcissel, 4 3-2 Scarlet Tanager, 3 75 n-4 1 25 Summer Tanager, 4 1 00 Purple Martin. 5 60 Cliff Swallow, 6 > 30 Barn Swallow, 4 20 Tree Swallow, 6 90 Viol«t-green Swallow, 6 2 40 Bank Swallow, 5 15 Rough-winged Swallow, 5 1 25 Cedar Waxwing, 5 50 4 40 Phainopepla, 2 70 3 1 05 Loggerhead Shrike, 6 48 White-rumped Shrike, 6 48 California Shrike, 5 40 Red-eyed Vireo, 4 40 n-3 36 Yellow-throated Vireo, 3 _.. 75 Cassln's Vireo, 3 3 CO White-eyed Vireo, 4 60 Bell's Vireo, 4 60 Least Vireo. 3 105 Black and White Warbler, 3 1 50 Prothonotory Warbler, 4 1 00 Blue-winged Warbler, 4 6 00 Parula Warbler, 3 60 Yellow Warbler, 4 20 5 25 " n-4 30 Sonora Yellow Warbler, 5 2 50 Chestnut-sided Warbler, 4 80 3 60 Yellow-throated Warbler, 3 4 50 Pine Warbler. 4 2 00 Ovenbird, 4 80 Louisiana Water Thrush, 5 1 75 Yellow-breasted Chat, 4 32 Hooded Warbler, 3 1 50 4 2 00 Pileolated Warbler, 3 2 25 American Redstart, 4 60 White Wagtail, 6 60 Meadow Pipit, 5 50 Sage Thrasher, 2 1 00 Mockingbird, 4 20 Catbird. 4 12 Brown Thrasher, 4 12 5 15 Palmer's Thrasher, 4 1 41 Bendire's Thrajsher, 3 2 25 4 3 00 California Thrasher, 3 60 Crissal Thresher, 2 2 00 Cactus Wren, 4 72 Carolina Wren, 5 50 Floriida Wren. 4 1 40 Lomita Wren. 5 2 50 House Wren. 5 40 6 : 48 7 56 Parkman's Wren. 6 90 Western House Wren, 5 40 Long-billed Marsh Wren, 4 aO White-breasted Nuthatch, 6 2 JO Slender-billed Nuthatch, 3 2 25 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 5 6 25 Tufted Titmouse, 6 3 00 Plain Titmouse, 4 _ 3 00 Chickadee, 7 i 05 8 120 Oregon Chickadee, 7 2 45 Carolina Chickadee, 4 60 California Bush Tit, 5 75 Verdin, 3 l 05 Blue-gray Gnatcather, 4 ?o Western Gnatcatcher, 5 , 2 50 Wood Thrush, 4 24 Wilson's Thrush. 4 ; 48 Willow Thrush. 3 3 00 Russet-backed Thrush, 4 60 Dwarf Hermit Thrush, 4 6 00 American Robin, 4 12 Western Robin, 4 40 Red-spotted Blue-throat, 5 3 75 Wheater, 5 SO Bluebird, 4 20 English Pheasant, 13 3 25 10 2 60 Nest of Black-chinned H ummer 30 " " African Starling 1.50 SPECIAL. The foUowlhg desirable and authentic sets I offer at one-half of prices quoted, postpaid. LIST BATE. Olive-backed Thrush, 4 $1 40 Winter Wren, 4 4 00 Loon, 2 3 00 Green-winged Teal, 10 5 00 Wood Duck. 8 8 00 Great White Heron, 4 8 00 American Woodcock. 3 4 50 Red-shouldered Hawk, 3 105 Great Horned Owl, 3 3 75 White-throated Sparrow, 4 1 40 Magnolia Warbler, 4 2 00 Mourning Warbler, 4 10 00 MOUNTED BIRDS. A chance to secure a suitable holiday present at one-half of regular prices. All.bright male birds on perches. Indigo Bunting S 75 Scarlet Tanager 90 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 75 American Goldfinch 50 yellow Warbler 50 Snow Bunting 75 Cedar Waxwing 60 Bluebird 75 BlueJay 1 00 Red Squirrel with nut in paws 1 00 Chipmunk with nut in paws 1 00 Screech Owl with bird in claws 1 10 Mounted specimens go by express or freight at purchaser's expense, unless order amounts to over fo.OO. Orders over $5.00 sent prepaid. No discount on Birds. Address all orders plainly, ERNEST H. SHORT, Albion, N. Y. THE OOLOGIST. $1.00 WORTH OF PREMIUMS ABSOLUTELY FREE TO EYREY SUDSUnlBbn TU THb UOLUUlwTi read man k on reverse. Subscibebs can purchase premiums in lots of 50c or over at one-half price. Stamps accepted. BIRDS EGGS. *Can fiu-nlsh in sets. Western Grebe * Herring Gull ♦Least Tern Pintail Green Heron Florida Gallinule European Coot American Coot Lapwing Calif. Partridge Gray Ruffed Grouse Col. Sharp-tailed Grouse... ♦Mourning Dove Western Red-tail ♦Swainson's Hawk American Sparrow Hawk.. Screech Owl •Burrowing Owl Yellow-billed Cuckoo Hairj' Woodpecker Gardiner's Woodpecker ... Pileated Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker . Red-headed Woodpecker. . Flicker Scissor-tailed Flycatcher ♦Arkansas Kingbird Cassln's Kingbird Crested Flycatcher Phoebe - Black Phoebe Western Wood Pewee Skylark Prairie Horned Lark American Crow Fish Crow Starling *Red-wTngedBlackbird Bicolored Blackbird Tricolored Blackbird Meadowlark _ Western Meadowlark _ Arizona Hooded Oriole ♦Orchard Oriole ♦Bullock's Oriole •Boat-tailed Grackle House Finch West«rn Lark Sparrow Cardinal ♦Western Goldfinch_ ♦Arkansas Goldfinch ♦Lawrence's Goldfinch Heermann'sSong Sparrow Gray-tailed Cardinal Black-headed Grosbeak Lazuli Bunting Painted Bunting Sharpe' s Seed-eater Scarlet Tanager Summer Tanager Purple Martin Tree Swallow Cedar Waxwing_ White-rumped Shrike ♦California Shrike White-eyed Vireo Bell's Vlreo Yellow Warbler White Wagtail Meadow Pipit Mockingbird Catbird Sennet's Thrasher Caiifornian Thrasher 'Cactus Wi-en Baird's Wren Parkmans Wrea California Chickadee 50 ♦Caiifornian Bush-tit 15 Wood Thrush _ 05 Russet-backed Thrush 15 American Robin 05 Bluebird 05 English Pheasant 25 English Sparrow 05 Ring Pheasant 50 Gopher 35 Hammerhead Shark ,.. 15 •Red-leg Turtle 15 ♦Snapping Turtle 15 Jackdaw 10 Rook 10 Magpie 10 Missel Thrush 10 Song Thrush 10 English Blackbird 10 Lesser Whiteth't Warbler 10 Garden Warbler 10 Reed Bunting 10 Green Finch 10 Willow Warbler 10 Common Bunting 10 Sedge Warbler 10 Nightingale ^5 English SpaiTOW Hawk ... 35 Great Tit 10 English Swallow 10 Hedge Accentor 10 English Partridge 15 BIRD SKINS. Redpoll $ 35 Snowflake 35 Tree Sparrow 35 Slate-colored Junco _ 35 Cedar Waxwing 3i Black-and-white Warbler.. 35 Myrtle Warbler 35 Brown Creeper 35 SHELLS. Murex brandaris trunculus " saleanus Eburna Japonica Oliva litterata, extra Cypraas moneta '.. Ovulum gibbosum secale Nerita peleronta, select. Trochus (Livona) pica.... Helix fideles Bulimus Bahamaensis.. . Partula gibba Orthalicus melanochilus undatum Liguus fasclata Achatinella perversa uniplicata ... " spirizona ... " olivacea Pythea pyramidata Fissurella barbadensis... Chama arcinella Cardium isocardia Telllna radiata Fasciolaria distans Melongena corona .« 25 25 10 - 25 . 20 10 15 .. 10 10 .. 25 13 15 10 25 25 15 .. 10 10 .. 10 10 15 .. 10 15 15 .. 10 10 .. 15 SEA CURIOS. Precious coral, 1 oz. pkg. Organplpe Coral Creamy Sea Fan Yellow Se 1, Fan Sand Dollar Phillippian Urchin 35 Purple Urchin, select 25 Black Starfish 35 Acorn Barnacles 10 Keyhole Urchin 25 Lucky Tooth of Cod 10 Hermit Crab in Shell S5 "Eye Stones" 05 MINERALS, &c. Chiastolite Crystals $ 15 Coquina 25 "Electric" stone 25 Chalcedony Geodes select.. 50 Gem Stones, small cut and polished semi-precious stones, many suitable for mounting : Sard Trilby heart intag- lioes $ 15 Opals. Mexican 15, 25, 35, 50 Red Onyx 15 Black Onyx 15 Crocidolite, Tiger-eye .10, 15, 25 Lapis Lazuli ._ 35 Chalcedony, 3 var. each.. 10 Black Ribbon Agates 10 Red Ribbon Agate 10 Carnelian 10 Assorted dozen 50 100 Fossil Shark Teeth 5, 10 Scaphites nodosuslO. 25, 50, 1.00 Polyp Coral 10, 25, 50 MISCELLANEOUS. Arrowheads, V^ doz. asst'd$ 50 Revolutionary Gun Flint 15 Dove Shell from British Guiana exhibit at World's Fair, pkg. of 13.. 25 Chines Horn Nut 10 Beetle Nut 10 Broken Bank Bill 10 Confederate State Bill 10 Chameleon in Alcohol 25 Alligator Tooth 5, 10, 15, 25 Young Naturalist's Mar- velous Collection, 50 labelled specimens 1 00 Chinese Coin 05 Mexican Whistle, clay 10 7var.unusedCubanStamps 35 Resurrection Plant, Mex.. 10 Bird Arrow Point 25 Set of Souverir World's Fair Tickets 1 00 PUBLICATIONS. OoLOGiST,20 numbers 50 Nidiologist, 8 numbers 1 00 The Wilson Quarterly and Semi Annual 4 numbers 1 CO Natural Science News, 52 back numbers - 1 00 Above publications are all different and of our selection. Oor,OGisT,1892,bound cloth 1 00 Penikese, a volume of 96, pages. Giving an acc'i of Agassiz's summer school at Penikese Island 50 Loucks, Prothonotary Warbler 35 Short, Birds of W. N. Y 15 Lattins Standard Egg Cat 15 Directions for Collecting Minerals, 16 pp 05 Exchafige Notice (or Cou- pon) in OoLoca-ST 25 Advertising in Oologist .50-$1 viii THE ()OLO(iIST Date 1898. FRANK H. LA.TTIN, Publisher, Albion, N. Y. Eaclosed find 50 cnnts for whioh send The Oologist cue year, including one Exchange Coupon and $1 OO -vvorth of Premiums to the following address l^auie p. O Box or Street Address County Post-OflSce State I select the following for my One Dollar's worth of premiums ■^Remember. —That for only 50 cents every subscril)er will leceive The UuLOgist. as issued, for one year, and in addition will leceive by return mail, one exchange coupon and $1.00 worth of premiums as offei'ed on l)ack of this blank. Write above the ones you prefer and mark on back of this blank a few extras to be used in casH we should be out of your first choice. This offer •vv^ill hold good until January 1, 1899. BE SURE and address all of your letters and orders plainly and in full to FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, Orleans Co., \. Y The A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. VOL. XV. NO. 12. ALBION, N. Y., DEC, 1898. Whole No. 149 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. Brief special announcements, "Wants,' "Exclianges" "For Sales," Inserted In this department for 2.5C per 2.t words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted in payment at one-third list rates. What's Your Number? Examine the number following your name on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It denotes when your subscription expired or will expire. No. 149 your subscription expires with this issue 150 " " " " Jan,,'99'- 155 " " •' " June " " 160 " " •• •■ Nov. " '• Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- mined. If we have you credited wrong we wish to rectify. TO EXCHANGE,— Fine sets of 11 1-1, 49 1-3, 51a 1-3, 202 1-4 1-3, 225 1-4, 269 1-3. 319 1-3, 331 1-4, 312 1-3, 375; 1-3, 467 1-3, 595 1-4, 608 1-3, 619 3-5, 624 1-3. 673 n-4, 674 1-4. 681 1-4. 687 1-4. 713 1-3, 7.55 2-4. JOHN H. FLANAGAN, 29 Weybosset St., Providence, R. I. WANTED.— "Osprey" .Vol. II, combined numbers 6-7 ; for this number, to complete my file, I will give good exchange in prints of nests and eggs, sending list for your seleciion. WM. H. FISHER, 1602 Mt. Royal Ave., Balti- more, Md. 20 choice Relics, Curiosities, etc., 25c, 10 old coins 18c, 9 varieties of rare Indian Relics ■•37c, 100 choice sea shells 35c, spade 18c, hoe 2.5c, chisel 25c. all the above for $1.50. Lists free. WILLIAM P. ARNOLD, Peacedale, R. I. WILL PAY CASH for perfect sets of Osprey and Sharp-shinned Hawk. Address JEAN BELL, Ridley Park, Pa. D2t FOR Sale or EXCHANGE.— Capen's "Oology of New England" In fine condition. Nine volumes of American Field. Frosts Hunting pictures. C. B. JOHNSON, Red Wing, Minn. D2t HORNADAY'S TAXIDERMY and Chap- man's Birds of Eastern North America, bind- ing being somewhat spoiled liy tire, rebound in cloth, good as new, latest edition, to the first one sending me $3.00,' cost I.^S.-tO. Write now. H. E. NEWMAN, New Ulra, Minn., care of College. WANTED.— Eggs in sets. Minerals and Ai'- row Points. Can offer first class eggs in sets and singles. Send list and receive mine. H. A. SHAW, Grand Forks, N.cD. TO EXCHANGE.— 191. 316, 412, 456, 477, 488. 489, 498, 501. 511b. 519. 581b, 704, 70.5, 721, 761. Al sets. OTHO GAY, Camp Point, Ills. EXCHANGE.— 1898 Improved Gramaphone with 66 records and case, costing $60. Want camera and photo supplies. Profitable enter- tainments can be given. What offer? C. H. DICKINSON, Grand Rapids, Minnesota. EGGS FOR EXCHANGE.— Fine sets with full data of 499 20-3, 519 1-5 1-4, 581 5-3 8-4, 591b 3-3 1-4, 622b 3-3, 713 4-3 to exchange for other sets. J. S. APPLETON. Simi, Ventura Co. , Cal. WOULD LIKE to have all dealers in Coins, Curios, Minerals, Indian Relics, who read this send catalogues to RIDGELY NICHOLAS, 44 Park Ave., New York. THE LATEST SENSATIONAL FRENCH PLAY:— Cyrano De Bergerac, by Edmund Rostand, which is being played in this country by Richard Mansfield and In England by Henry Irving, is just brought out in a dainty, cloth-bound volume at the price of 3nc. and a cheap paper edition at 15c., by Hurst & Co., New York, the well known cheap-book pub- lishers. They will send- it postpaid or it may be had at all dealers. CFOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.— A $10.00 Cam! era, new, for Coues' Key and other standard works. I also have a high grade bicycle, near- ly new that I will sell at a bargain. P. A. MULTER, 13 Eldridge Court, Chicago, 111. MANN BONE CUTTER, new, $22.00; Win- chester repeating rifle, new, 22 short or long, for hammerless 16 or 12 guage gvin, W. C. FARRAR, Peru, Ind. EXCHANGE. -I have some good sets of Dakota eggs to exchange for good Taxiderm- ist's Tools and good Work on Taxidermy. WM. A. BOWMAN, Devil's Lake, N. D. TTirT)/\T)ni A \Trr do not neglect to look over our new and revised list of Books I 'U r llri/ I A \ I and Publications devoted to Ornithology and Oology and Natural ' V./-L*; J. .LJ.X1 -1- . History In general, offered In this month's Ooi.ooist and above all Uu uui overlook the '^Extraordinary ctirlHtnias Ofter." .%!»' THE OOLOGIST. "METHODS in the ART of TAXIDEFAr;- by Davie. New. Will swap for good eggs -u sets, good collection U. S. and foreign stamps or for books on Ornithology or Oology. FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y. WHEN YOU WANT low quotations on Min- erals, Geological Specimens, Corals, Shells. Scientific Publications and Naturalists' Sup- plies, write to ANDREW NELSON, iiud Palean St., Keokuk, Iowa. WANTED.— Good Typewriter, Camera or eggs in sets. Have to offer Printing Press and type, fifty varieties of shells from Vancouver's Island or eggs. RALPH W. CLAYTON, Box 454, Galesburg, Ills. EGGS FOR EXCHANGE.— Fine sets of fol- lowing or will sell cheap for cash : 165, 167, 184, 207, 257, 286, 293a, 311,313,318,319,329,335. 417, 419, 421, 478a, 487, .508, 512, 513, 591, 593c, 630. 666,697,706,707. THOMAS H. JACKSON. 343 E. Biddle St., West. Chester, Pa. D4t FOR SALE.— 1000 finely mounted native birds and 200 sets eggs with data. Will sell at bargain, singly or as a whole. Write for lists to H. M. BACON, 36 Temple Place, Boston, Mass. 20 varieties Fossils. Geodes, Minerals. Land and Sea Curios, beautiful Calclte Cave Speci- mens in frost and boxwork, 25c. to $1.00; var- ious Indian relics, »rowheads, $1.25 per 100, postpaid. CORA JEWELL, Crawfordsville, Ind. RUDYARD KIPLING.— If continual talk about him in the newspapers is an indication, Rudyard Kipling must be the most popular of living authors. A vast number of readers must, therefore, welcome a cheap edition of his "Departmental Ditties, Barrack Room Ballads and Other Verses," just issued by the famous cheap-book publishing house. Hurst & Co., 135 Grand St. , New York, at the price of only 35 cents postpaid. WANTED.— To exchange my entire collec- tion of typical singles with complete data for sets. Collectors of singles send list of sets. Will pay boot. H. S. WARREN, Foot of Wayne St., Detroit, Mich. WANT NESTS and EGGS of Owls, Hawks, Ducks, Bittern, Chimney Swift, Brown Thrash- er, etc. Will pay good prices if in a fair con- dition, especially the nests, and any one with a large amount of nests would like to commun- icate. CHAS. C. OWEN, Silver Bay Museum, Silver Bay, N. Y. D2t TO EXCHANGE.— For 1st class sets, 50 sin- gles at -.,' catalogue rates, also 200 diffei'ent Foreign and U. S. Postage Stamps for $3.50 in sets. Send for lists. HARRY CUTLER, Sar- anac, Mich. FOR SALE:— Fine specimens of American Turquois. Will cut good settings at 25c to $1. This is a good chance to get a fine stone cheap. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Provi- dence, R. I. TO EXCHANGE:— I have a fine lot of Land, Fresh Water and Marine Shells to exchange for Indian relics. BENTON HOLCOMB, West Granby, Hartford Co., Conn. s3t WANTED:— Auks single copies or volumes previous to and including 1896. Will give cash or Davies" new Nest and Egg book. Write what you have. JAMES H. HILL, New Lon- don, Conn., P. O. Box 485. a 4t WANTED.— A few finely marked sets, clean and perfectly prepared of 331, 333, 337, 339b, 343, 355, Will five good exchange in rare species. THOMAS H. JACKSON, 343 E. Biddle St., West Chester, Pa. D4t BICYCLES.— "Pattee" used two seasons, r,-ood condition, new tire, cost $75.00; • "Waver- ly" used one season, $75.00 wheel. Will sell either or both cheap for cash or will swap for eggs in sets, books on Natural History or an A No. 1 collection stamps. FRANK H. LAT- TIN, Albion, N. Y. TO EXCHANGE.— Several 1st class sets of each of following: A. O. U. 863. 339, 388, 394, 529, 019, 622a, 652, 659, 687, etc. Wanted Kodak or sets. L. M. TERRILL, Mount Royal Vale, Montreal, Que. FOR EXCHANGE at one-third' to three- fourths catalogue rates, rare eggs from Lab- rador and Newfoundland, which are not first class, including the following species: Brun- nich's; Murre, Kittiwake, Red-breasted Mer- ganzer, Greenland Eider, Semi-palmated Sandpiper, Semi-palmated Plover, Willow Ptarmigan, Reinhart's Ptarmigan, American Roughleg, Short-eared Owl, Northern Raven, Redpoll, White-crowned Sparrow, Tree Spar- row, American Pipit, Gray-cheeked Thrush, etc. Strictly first class sets of common species taken. I guarantee the authenticity of all my eggs . To obtain a large series of eggs of the Spotted Sandpiper at once I offer 25 per cent, above Lattin's list in the following sets : 27 7-1 5-2. 40 1-1 1-2, 106 20-1, 130 1-9 1-10, 159 1-3 1-4, 274 1-2 2-3, 538 1-3, 554 1-2 2-3 1-4. 697 1-2. Correspond- ents desired, who, during the coming year, may be able, for good exchange or reasonable cash price, to procure for me living birds of the following species: Redpoll, Crossbill, Evening Grosbeak and especially Pine Gros- beak. Address Lock Box 27, Arlington, Mass. HOW TO MAKE MONEY! If you are out of employment and want a position, paying you from $50 to .$100 monthly clear above ex- penses by working regularly, or, if you want to increase your present income from $200 to $500 yearly, by working at odd times, write the GLOBE CO., 723 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa., stat- ing age, whether married or single, last or pres- ent employment, and you can secure a position with them by which you can make more money easier and faster than you ever made before in your life. Jlyr WANTED.— First class sets of eggs, with or without nests. Can offer first class singles of 273, 293a, 333, 360, 373. 385. Also 721 1-5. ABBOT PETERSON, 305 Chestnut Avenue, Jamaica Plain, Mass. WANTED.— An active collector (who can make A 1 bird and mammal skins) in Florida, Maine (sea coast), Michigan (pine belt). North Carolina (sea coast), and Texas (Rio Grande.) W. E. SNYDER, Beaver Dam, Wis. TO EXCHANGE.— Books, Vol's Magazines and Papers, Eggs, Banjo, Curios, stamps and other articles for drawing and carving tools, books on carpentry and wood carving. F. L. BURRILL, No. 4 Pearl ave., Amesbury, Mass. A FINE collection of eggs in sets, many rare western ; also valuable minerals, choice orna- mental nursery stock, including many new Colorado plants, shrubs and seeds. Will give liberal exchange for field or opera glass, Edi- son's mimeograph, 4x5 photographic lens, stan- dard or scientific books &c. Write for parti- culars stating what you have and want. D. M. ANDREWS, Nurseryman, Boulder, Colorado. THE OOLOGIST. I WILL EXCHANGE eggs, shells, or curios from this locality for foreign stamps. I also want U. S. revenue. VV. H. HILLER, 1-17 W. 23d St., Los Angeles, Calif. FOR SALE.— A few nice skins of Snowy Owl, females and young males at 11.00 each, to clear for this winter's stock ; also Long Crested Jay 30c. Sharp-tailed Grouse and Ruffled .=)0c. Par- ties wishing to secure Moose, Elk, Prong Deer and Mule Deer heads, antlers scalps or hides mounted, or In pickle or dressed for robes, or wishing to obtain skins of any birds or animals from on skeletons may correspond with me. CHRIS P. FORGE, Carman, Manitoba. LE CONTE'S SPARROW— My duplicate sets have been quickly taken for a round sum. I hope to take nest season perhaps eight sets. They will be partly available for choice ex- change. Advance orders booked in order of mailing. State, when ordering, what you think should be the exchange price of these eggs. A set or two of A. Bairdii may also be taken. Suggest price for these also. P. B. PEABODY, Hallock, Minn. HAVE YOU a good double barrel breech loading shot gun, lO bore, or revolver of the higher grades, you want to sell or trade for 32 Winchester rifle, model 1873, with reloading tools, Elgin. Waltham, Springfield or Swiss watches, birds eggs, books, papers, telescope, V nickles, if so write me. Will sell any of my goods reasonable. C. B. VANDERCOOK, din. Ills. TEN showy singles including African Ostrich 81.00 prepaid. 2.5 second-class eggs 2b species .tOc prepaid. List first-class sets free. Birds yearly subscriptions $1.30, An/: $2.6.5, Recreation 8.5c, Popular Science Neux II. -15, Cosmopolitan 8.5c. Send 25c stamps for 10 specimen copies of natural history and popular magazines. Elli- ott's new book "Wild Fowl" $2.00, "Byways and Bird Notes" (Thompson) .50c, Davies' Nests and Eggs $1.70. Osprey volume 1 complete $2.6ri. BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, New York. PUBLICATIONS, EGGS, BOOKS WANTED. I win allow 50c each for any back number of the "Auk" you may have, if in good condition and sent prepaid. You to take your full pay In Eggs, Shells (showy or scientific), Corals, Echinoderms, Fossils, Minerals, Curios, Novel- ties, &c. as listed inthe Premium List I can also use on same terms the following numbers of the OoLOCiisT at prices quoted: June, 1888, 2.5c: July-Aug., 1886, 20c; Jan.-Feb.. 1887 or Dec, 1886 with same attached, 10c: June-Sept., 1887, 16c: Apr.. 1889, 1.5c: Jan-Feb.. 1886, 10c: Jan., 1895, 5c; March, 1897, 5c; May. 1897, .5c. All must be complete, clean, and in good condition. I will also accept back No's of Omitholofjist and Oolo- gisl, Itecreation. Insect Life, any issue and in any quantity at .5c per copy on same terms. (I will allow 2.5c for Oct.. '93 and Feb., '94 "iVirfs." also for October and December '96 Osprey.) If you have other publications along my line. Write and state what is wanted. I can also use books on subjects pertaining to Natural History if in good condition and cheap, also A No. 1 sets of eggs with data at '/4"Stand- ard" rates. Lists of books and eggs must be submitted for my selection or approval before sending. Address at once FRANK H. LAT- TIN, Albion, N. Y. CABINETS. SendlOcts for photo of our speciality— Self Locking. T perches -Oak sam- ples by mall 8c, 10c and I5c; also stands, shields, glass cases, game panels. &c. Cabinets to or- der. HANAFORD CABINET CO., 139 and 141 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 58MOtf TRY THE NEW HOME WRITE FOR CIRCULARS tr^^%^%^lt Sewing Machines we manufacture and their prices before you purchase any other. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO. ORANGE, tlASS. 88 Union Square, N.Y. Chicago, lU. St. Louis, Mo. Dallas, Tex. San FranciBco, Cal. Atlanta, Ga. FOR SALE BY E. W. WILCOX. Marine Shells and Curios. I am now in a position to furnish in quantity all of the best species collected on the Gulf Coast and will be pleased to furnish prices on applica- tion. Best of reference given and satisfaction guaranteed. Collections sent on approval to par- ties giving satisfactory reference. Any not ap- proved can be returned at my expense. Address all orders to A. J. BARNES, Dunqdin, Fla. Many Subscriptions to THE OOLOGIST have expired, or will expire with this issue. In the future the Publisher re- quires CASH IN ADVANCE. Hence, if you are one of the delinquent sub- scribers, your subscription should be forwarded by return mail, if you wish the OoLOGiST continued to your address. THE OOLOGIST. ROBERT BURNHAM, ?*****i?*****?*^**»¥vV»*** DEALER IN PRECIOUS STONES, OPALS, CURIOS AND FINE MINERALS. Cutting and polishing Agates and Gem Stones, and setting the same in solid gold settings a specialty. 143 GaUup St., Providence, R. I. PRICE LIST OF GEMS. OPALS. Australian 50c to $40.00 per kt. Hungarian 50c to 50.00 Mexican 10c to 30.00 " Opal Scarf Pins set in Solid Gold in four siz- es, as follows: r5c, $1.S5, 2.50, 3.50. STUDS. Screw or Separate Back. $1.00 to $3.00. Clus- ters.to order. EARRINGS $3.00 to $.5.00 RING?, ETC., SET TO ORDER. Prices an application for special settings or extra fine stones. AMETHYST, TOPAZ, MOONSTONE, BLOODSTONE. AGATE, CROCIDOLITE, &c. In all forms and sizes for Rings, Pins, Charms, 10c to $5.00. Tourmaline 50c to $15.00 per kt. Aquamarine 50c to 5.00 " Part Exchange will be accepted in pay- ment during the next thirty days. Good Live Agents Wanted in ail parts of tt&e world. Liberal casb commission paid. It is a hard task for the average man. and i e- qulrea the showing forth of many eicellenl, qualities. But for a Bicycle Lamp to be good, really requires but two things : 1st. To Give a Good Light. 2d. To Stay Alight In Spite of Wind and Jar. THE beautifully combines these iwo Kood quaUtle« It also has the other and lesser virtues beU)u-ii.(,' to the Perfect Bicycle Laiiip. Therefore as one step iu your effort lo BE WISE, and buy one of the.-Ti AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY. Send for circular or, bet trr slill.Fend $*,.';o t which is the reasimabie pi ice ai wliich wo .■• .1 I one, delivered anywhere. ^ R. E. DIETZ COMPANY ' 6o Laight Street Established 1840 NEW YORK CITY 4 Marine Curios and Shells. I make a specialty in collecting, pre- paring and selling anything in the line of Marine Specimens obtainable on the Gulf Coast. I sell to the Collector as well as to the Retail, Wholesale and Jobbing trade. J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. MIMCPAI O SHELLiS, etc. The .White lYIinCnALO city Collections. 50 fine cabi- net specimens, $3. 50 smaller size, 82. 50 ama- teur size, $1. Printed name and locality with each specimen. 50 Shells, Corals, and Marine Specimens, only $3. 100 Fossils, including fine Fish, Triloblte, Crinolds, Corals, Sponges, several fine Ferns, etc., only ^. A great varie- ty Unios with one valve highly published from 35c to $1, very showy. Taxidermy in all its branches at reasonable prices. Illustrated catalogue by mail, 10c. J.M.WIBRS, Natural- ists Agency, 357 W. VanBuren St., Chicago, 111. MEXICAN COINS, ic, 2c and 5c nickel uncirculated, and Ic copper. Set of 4 prepaid for only 12c. The nickel coins were In circula- tion only a few months in '82-'83 may become exceedingly rare In a few years. ROBERT BURNHAM, 143 Gallup St., Providence, R. I. THE OOLOGIST. v AN EXTRAORDINARY CHRISTMAS OFFER. SIO.OO BOOK FREIE,. To each of our patrons who favor us with an order for Books, Pamphlets, or Pub- lications, on or before January r, 1899, to the amount of $10.00 or over, we will send by express at their expense a new copy of that magnificent work, "Davie's Methods in the Art of Taxidermy," without additional charge, or in other words, make them a Christmas present of the book. This elaborate work was published at $10 per copy, and the publishers supply has been exhausted for nearly a year, we possessing the few unsold copies, and if any remain after January ist they will be held at $7.50 cash per copy — our present regular price. Remember every purchaser whose order amounts to $10 or over receives a copy gratis and if your order amounts to $50 or even $100, or if you send in half a dozen $10 orders you get only the single copy. That is we wish to presen: each patron a single copy, but no more. Faithfully, FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. N. B. — This offer also includes, all popular and recent works on Ornithology, Nat- ural History and Out Door Life, not on our lists you simply including them in your order at Publisher's regular price. Bendire's Life Histories of North American Birds,'* Recognized the world over as the most valuable addition to the literature bearing on American Ornithology of the decade. The Government (its publishers) supply has long been exhausted and during the past two years every copy we could secure has had two or three purchasers waiting who have paid us anywhere from $7.50 to $10.00 per copy and considering themselves fortunate to secure them at even the latter figure. We have just secured a few complete sets from an unexpected source and offer them by Express at purchaser's expense at the following exceedingly liberal rates: Vol. I, $9.00; Vol. II, $7.00; or both Vols. I and II for $16.00. REMEMBER, however, that if you send us the $16 for both Vols. I and II on or before January ist that your order will come under our "Extraordinary Christmas Offer" and that you will in addition to the set of Bendire's get a copy of Davie's "Methods in the Art of Taxidermy," without additional charge — thus really making your set of Bendire's cheaper than you could obtain them three or four years ago when they were among the "obtainables." FRANK H. LATTIN. ALBION, N. Y. Lattin's Standard Catalog ol North American Birds Eggs. Enlarged (contains 72 pages) revised, corrected and brought up to date of going to press- March, 1896. Giving all of the new A. O. U. changes and additions. Also divided and sub- dl\ided into orders, sub-orders, families, and sub-families. Values are based on the lHy3 ones which were determined by the compiler, from invaluable notes, suggestions and assistance from Major Chas. E. Bendlre," J. Parker Norris, Esq., and Cap- tain B. P. Goss. In addition to these notes, which have been carefully reworked, the compiler has had suggestions from over Fijkty Lkadinc Amekican Oologists, all of which were care- fully considered and where advisable, adopted. Lattin's Catalogue has long been recognized by leading Oologists as the "Standard." The compiler intends to issue a new one as soon as this edition Is exhausted and desires the assistance of every working Oologlst, in making values, etc. On this account he has concluded to close out this edition at the following rates, postpaid (regular price was 2.5 cents per copy.) Single copy 10 cents; 3 for 25 cents: 7 for .tO cents; 1.5 for f 1 CO. Address, FRANK II. LATTIN, ALBIOI^, N. Y. THE OOLOGIST. AUCTION SALE. Mounted Birds, Shells, Minerals, Opals, Curios, Gems, &c. The following articles will be sold at auction, January 15, 1S99. All bids must be received by mail by 4 p. m. on that day. The highest bidder in each case will be noti- fied of his purchase and can remit or have goods sent C. O. D. I have placed a reserve price on each lot and no lower bid will be considered. Parties not wishing the whole of any lot can bid on any part of it. Address all bids to R.obert Burntiam, 143 Gallup St., Providence, R. I. 1 1 specimen Arcadiolite, N. S.,8x3,flne$ 10 2 1" " " 4x4 '• 25 3 10 lbs. Agatized Wood, Ariz., fine 2 00 4 100 lbs. Actinolite, Mass., good 6 00 5 100 lbs. Alabaster, Italy, fine 10 GO 100 lbs. Albite. N. H.. fine. 1 specimen AUanlte, N. H., 2x3, fine. 5 00 10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 38 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 3« 57 88 59 Analcite, N. H., 2x3, fine... 10 Amber Baltic Sea 10 Ankerite, Penn., 2x3 10 Andalusite, Mass., good.. 05 fine 15 Antumony, Japan,2x2,fine 15 3x4,flne 25 Asbestus, Mass 10 •• 3x4 25 Azurite, Col 05 " 2x3, fine. 15 Barite, Eng., 2x3. good 10 3x4, fine 35 100 lbs. Beryl, N. H.. good 6 00 1 specimen Biotite (15 lbs.), Mass., Matrix 1 10 1 specimen Biotite, Mass., 2x3 05 3x4 Black Spinel, N. Y. 10 mat. 1 1 1 1 " Bowenite. R. 1 10 1 " Bornite, Col 10 1 " Brookite. Ark 10 40 lbs. Brown Spar, R. I 2 40 1 specimen Brucite, Pa 10 40 lbs. Buhrstoue, France 3 00 1 specimen Calamine, N. Y 15 40 lbs. Calcareous Tufa, N. Y 2 40 40 lbs. Canrinite, Me 4 00 1 specimen Catlinite, Minn.. 3x5 30 1 " Cerargyrite. Nev., 1 oz 35 1 '• Chabazite, N. S 10 1 Chalcedony on Coral, Fla 20 10 lbs. Chalcopyrite, Col 75 1 specimen Chlorite, R. I 10 1 " Chrysocolla, Col 10 10 lbs. Cinnabar. Cal., fine 4 00 1 specimen Columbite, Conn 10 400 lbs. Coquina 16 00 1 specimen Copalite, Africa 10 1 •' Cyanite, Conn 05 10 lbs. Cyanite, Conn 1 00 1 specimen Diamond, Africa 2 00 15 lbs. Diaspore, Mass 3 75 15 lbs. Elaeolite. Ark 90 40 lbs. Emery, Mass 3 60 40 lbs. Epidote, Mass 3 60 1 specimen Flint, Eng 10 1 '• Franklinite. N. J 10 100 lbs. Galenite. Col 10 00 10 lbs. Galenite, Mass.. rare 1 00 200 lbs. Granite in Matrix, Mass 18 00 400 lbs. Quartz, R. I 20 00 2001bs, " Geodes, 111 16 00 100 lbs. Chalcedony Geodes, 111 10 00 1 specimen Graphite, Europe 15 1 '• Bloodstone, Europe 25 65 1 " Heulandite, N. S 10 66 100 lbs. Hornblende. Mass.. 8 00 67 200 lbs. Hematite, R. I 16 00 68 4Ulbs Pyrite, Col 3 00 69 1 specimen Lava, Ves 10 70 1 " Leopardite, N. C 25 71 1 " Malachite, Chili 15 72 10 lbs. Margaite, Mass 150 73 1 specimen Masonite, R. 1 10 74 1 •' Pearl spar, N. Y lo 75 10 lbs. Petrified Wood, Ariz 80 76 10 lbs. Phylite, R. 1 70 77 1 specimen Pyrolusite, Col 15 78 10 Quartz Chrystals, N. Y. and Ark... 20 79 10 " " •' " 30 80 10 " " " " 50 81 10 " " " " 1 00 82 100 lbs. Rhomb Spar, R. I 5 00 83 10 lbs. Scapolite. Mass 60 84 1 specimen Selenite Crystal, Ark 10 85 10 lbs. Seyberlte, Me 1 00 86 4 specimens Silver Ore 1 00 87 1 spec. Smoky Quartz Crystal, Col 05 88 1 •' " " Col 15 89 1 " Sodalite, Me 10 90 1 " Specular Iron, 2x2 Ala lO 91 10 lbs. Sphalerite, Mo 70 93 1 specimen Splene, N. Y 50 93 10 lbs, Stilbite, N. S 50 94 5 lbs. Spodumme, Mass 40 95 1 specimen Sulphur, 4x4 30 96 1 " " Crystal 15 97 1 " Tourmaline, Mass 85 98 1 " Tremollte 25 99 1 " Troosite Matrix Xtal 25 ICO 1 •' Obsidian (10 lbs.) Mex 2 25 101 1 " Wollastonite . 10 102 1 " Zincite, N. J 10 103 10 Zircon Crystals 35 104 10 lbs. Zoicite, Mass 80 105 1 specimen Nuttalite. 4x5, 2 lbs.. Mass 15 106 1 " Pink Wemerite, 4x5, 2 lbs. Mass 15 107 4 specimens Boltonite.3x3, 1 lb.. Mass 12 108 1 Epidote in Actinolite. 4x.5,31bs., Mass 25 109 1 Grey Epidote, 4x4, 1V4, Mass 25 110 1 Grey Epidote, I'isl '-4' 25 111 1 specimen Kyanite, Conn., 4x5, 3 lbs. 25 112 1 " Selenite, Mich. ,4x6, IX Ihs. 25 113 1 " Magnesite, Greece 25 114 1 " Porphyretic Granite, N.H. 5x5, 5 lbs 20 115 1 specimen Apatite Crystals, N. B., 2x3'/2 75 116 1 specimen Pearl Spar, base, 4x5, 2 Galenite Crystals, 2x8!4. 13^xl>% Kt 1 " 3=>8 Kt 1 " " '• " 3H Kt 1 Red Carbuncle, 10mmxl4mm fine 1 Amethyst Carbuncle, 8x12, fine 1 " " Faceted 8xl2flne 1 American Turquois, ?8in,x9-10, fine.. 1 '■ "3 1-16 in.xi^ fine 1 Topaz, faceted, % in. fine 1 pr. Sardonyx for sleeve buttons.flne 1 pr. Onyx, do 4 oz. Rough Opals, specimens differ- ent colors to show all kinds and conditions 4 oz., better quality 4oz., still better 1 Topaz specimen crysttl 1 Ruby '• 1 " " large 1 Emerald " 1 Sapphire " 1 Diamond 1 Skookum Stone 1 Maple Desk 150 years old. Can send drawing. Perfect proof of age and history will be sent on request 2 Chairs, solid mahogany, very old, in good repair, each 1 Table Cloth 6 yards long, 6 napkins. These were the property of Max- millian and used by him in Mexico. Have the coat of arms of Austria. Are very heavy linen 1 doz fine hand-paint€d calendars, 1899, each 1 doz. photo views of Providence 1 doz. books flowers of New England, hand-painted, each 1 Arctic Fox skin, white 25 50 1 00 1 CO 1 00 1 50 1 50 2 00 2 00 3 00 5 00 10 00 8 OO 12 00 6 00 2 00 6 00 4 00 3 50 1 50 1 60 1 00 2 00 1 00 1 00 75 25 59 1 00 20 20 50 40 15 2 00 40 00 5 00 50 5 50 Aste dvertise in The OOLOGIST. The "Country Oentlemen'' is the leading Agricultural newspaper in Arn- P erica, and in soliciting advertising for its columns it makes its strongest hit in the following statement: "AS TO QUANTITY OF CIRCULATION it publishes many more 'Want Ads' than all other papers combined. You doubtless know what a 'Want Ad' circulation must be a7id always is"?'' From this same stand point the Oologist's ranks among publications devoted not only to Ornithology but Natural History as well, is identical to that of the County Gentlemen among agricultural publications. Mr. W. Raine, of Toronto, who purchased $20 worth of space in the 0()L0GIST for '98 and who has patronized its columns to a greater or less extent for the past ten years, under date of March 2d, writes: "I do not wish to jolly you but I must say that the Oologist is the best adver- tising journal of its kind in this continent. You should see the pile of letters I have received the past two weeks. Many from my old correspondents of years standing. For 12 years I have advertised in every Ornithological journal pub- lished in the United States, but none bring as good results as the Oologist." THE OOLOGIST. ''Methods in the Art of Taxidermy ," By Oliver Davie. Author of "Nests and Eggs of North American Birds," etc. Containing Ninety Full Page Engravings, over Five Hundred Figures minutely illustrating the most practical methods practiced in the art. It teaches in detail, step by step, the Skin- ning and Stuffing of Birds, Mammals, Crusta- ceans, Fishes and Reptiles, together with illus- trations of forms and Attitudes of the Animal Kingdom. The text is by Oliver Davie, who has made Taxidermy his life study and profes- sion. The originals of the illustrations were made in India ink from time to time as the actual subjects could be obtained from which to make the various procedures. They were drawn by the eminent Bird and Mammal artist, Theodore Jasper, A. M., M. D., whose exper- ience in the Art of Taxidermy extends over a period of fifty years. Every illustration by this artist is a ivork of art. Among these en- gravings are reproductions from photographs of actual work by American Taxidermists. Each copy of this book is enclosed in box for shipment and is sent prepaid upon receipt of price. in one Quarto Volume, Silk Clotb, Gilt top, untrimmed edges, $7.50. (Publisher's price is $10.) THE NIDOLOGIST. By a recent purchase I have obtained all the remaining back numbers of this valuable raag- azine from its Publisher The "Nid" was, during its existence, the most popular of all O. and O. publications and was the pioneer illustrated "Bird" magazine. Back numbers are just as valuable to the collector today as they were on the date of is- sue. Now is the time to fill gaps in your file or to obtain complete volumes. Send your list of wants and obtain prices,— I will make them right. I now quote, prepaid : Volume I, lacking No's 2, 4, 6, $2.00. " II, complete, 1.00. III, '• 2.00. IV, " 1.00. Volumes I to IV, as above, 5.00. 1 will send you a package of U back numbers all different, my selection, for 75 cents. Or a package of 25 all different, my selection, for only $1.25. Special INumtoers.— Vol. II, No. 3 (Nov. '91) contains colored plate of set of four eggs of White-tailed Kite, 15c. Vol. Ill, No. 4 5 (Dec. '95) contains full half- tone group of A. O. U. officers and members (41 in all) including Bendire, Ridgway, Coues, Allen, Brewster, Fisher, Sennet, Shufeldt, etc., 25c. Vol. IV, No. 1 (Sept. '96) contains colored plates of nest and eggs of Western Evening Grosbeak, 20c. Every person interested in Ornithology and Oology should possess the three special num- bers—regular price 60 cents— until Easter will mail the three for only 30 cents. I WANT and will allow good exchange or cash prices for the following issues September, October, November and December, 1893; Febru- ary, 1894; September and October, '95. Address FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. Books. "Insects injurious to Forest and Shade Trees." Packard, 3C6 illustrations, 922 pp., text, 40 plates [12 colored.] Second hand but binding in fair con- diting. full index, postpaid by mail for only $2 30 "The Achitecture of Birds." A treatise on Bird's Nest and Nesting habits. Published in 1833, leather bound, 390 pp. , 78 illustrations. Complete and in fine condition considering ex- treme age. Binding whole, post- paid for cnly 2 CO Maynard's "Key to Eggs of North Amer- ican Birds," last edition, new, 10 colored plates and cloth binding pre- paid _ 1 70 Davie's "Nest and Eggs of North Ameri- can Birds, 2nd edition, illustrated, paper, prepaid 85 Davie's "Naturalist's Manual," a key to the Thrushes. Warblers. Swallows, Wrens and Tanagers. Gives full directions for collecting bird's eggs and skins, mounting birds and col- lecting and mounting insects, 125 pp paper... 35 Cook's "Birds of Michigan," 168 p.. illum- inated paper covers, many illus 50 "Penikese," a history of the Agassiz Na- tural History School at Buzzard's Bay, Mass., with extracts from Prof Agassiz's lectures, 95 p., with plate, paper 25 Maynard's "Butterflies of Eastern North America," 80 p., life sized colored illustrations of 100 species, cloth. Rare and out of print 5 CO ]»Iineral Collections. No. 1. 75 varities minerals, all labelled and placed each one in a tray [Sxlxj* inches.] Every one true to name. Will be carefully packed in the trays and shipped by express or freight F. O. B. for only 2 00 No. 2. 100 varieties minerals glued in Base, each one on labelled space. Second-hand but in fair condition and complete. Specimens small but fine, showy, varieties. Sent by mail postpaid for only 1 00 Shell Collection. .oO varieties shells all labeled with name and locality and placed each one in tray, 2xlx}-4 inches. There are 2 to 4 of a kind of some small ones. -Will be carefully packed and shipped with trays by express F. O. B. on re- ceipt of... $2m Above collection without trays by mall postpaid for only 1 50 Curios. Saw-fish saw, a new lot of those oddest of sea curios. 8 to 10 inches long and perfect, postpaid $ 28 Fine lot of the long South American Por- cupine Quills, postpaid 06 Shark Teeth, clean and bright, postpaid . 04 Eye-stones from Fla., genuine, perfect ones, postpaid 05 Lucky Tooth of Cod, fine lot of these strange shaped teeth at 02 One of each above 5 curios, postpaid 40 Blue Starfish [7 in.] 35 [8^2 in.] 50 Giant Starfish [H in.] 65 Postpaid 8t prices. Address, £R?(E:ST H. SHORX, Albion, N. Y. THE OOLOGIST. BOOKS FOR THE NATURALIST. Starred (*) titles are secondhand copies, but as a rule the inside pages are "good as new Many are practically new, but previous owners' name has been written within. The unstarred titles are for new books, in a few instances the covers are slightly shelf- worn Many volumes and sets cannot be duplicated— hence the necessity of sending your order ear- ly. When ordering always state whether you have a second choice, or whether you wish monev refunded, in case books ordered have been sold. Many of the volumes offered in this list are taken from my private library and I ofler them for sale: First, because I need the room for other books, and Second, because I needEthe cash to purchase these "other books." See additional books in future Oologists. IMPORTANT! Lack of time and space prevents my listing more books this month. I have hundreds of other publications in stock and can procure anything obtainable. Write your wants. Remit in most convenient manner, but do not send sums of $1.03 or over loose in your letter. All books are PREPAID at prices quoted. Address all orders plainly and in full to FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, ALBION, N. Y. Beddard's, "Animal Coloration," [$3.50]... 2 00 Bendire's "Life Histories of North Ameri- can Birds.'' Vol. 1 9 00 Vol. II 7 50 "Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club," very rare. Vol. Ill unbound 3 00 Do do, 12 No's, Vol. I lacks No. 2; Vols. 11,111, complete; Vol. VI, No. 1 un- bound, 12.00 7 50 "Auk." Vols I to VII. elegantly bound, cloth and leather, ($35.00) 24 00 Vol. XII. unbound 2 25 Vol. XIII, unbound 2 00 "Ornithologist and Oologist," 10 vol. 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