The Oologist. 



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Vol. XXVII. No. 2. ALBION, N. Y., FEB. 15, 1910. 



Whole No. 271 



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THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND 

 ENGLISH PARTRIDGES AND PHEAS- 

 ANTS, capercailzies, black game, wild 

 turkeys, (juails, rabbits, deer. etc. for stock 

 purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, 

 cranes, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, 

 foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of 

 birds and animals. WP:NZ lV MACKENSEN, 

 Dept. H. Pheasantry ct Game Park. Yardley, 

 Pa. 



WANTED. --Specimens of Black-capped 

 Petrel. Rodger Fulmar. Dark-bodied Shear- 

 water. Wedge-tailed Shearwater. Black- 

 vented Shearwater, Townsend's Shearwater 

 Keadings Petrel, Guadaloupe Petrel. Black 

 Petrel. Blue faced Booby, Blue-footed Booby. 

 Brewster's Booby, Trompeter Swan, White- 

 cheeked Goose, Elegant and Trudeau's Tern, 

 ^urf Rird, Krider's Hawk. Harlan's Hawk, 

 Peale's Falcon, Black Merlin, Mottled Owl, 

 Masked Bob-white, Attwater's Prairie Hen. 

 We will pay gO(^d prices or exchange for any 

 first class specimens of above material. 

 Address. Box .524. New Haven. Conn. 



WANTED. -To buy first class skins of the 

 Hawks and Owls, or will give good exchange 

 in books. Write S. V. WHARHAM, (jeneva, 

 Ohio. 



QUALITY BIRD SKINS.-If you are in 

 need of material from the Lower Rio Grande, 

 southward in Mexico: let me hear from you. 

 My work is gauged by quality, not quantity 

 of output; a fact worthy of your serious con- 

 sideration, when adding to your collection. 

 Series representing the species from the egg 

 to the adult can be arranged for. .\USTIN 

 P.VUL SMITH, Box 111. Brownsville, Texas, 



A 1 mounted birds of rare eggs in sets to 

 exchange for game head, fur rugs. Address 

 GEORGE SWEZEY. 61071 Polk St.. Newark, 

 N.J. 



WANTED.- Skins of all the quails, par- 

 tridges, grouse and pheasants of Mexico, 

 Central and South America, Europe, Asia, 

 Africa and Australia (all over the world), 

 cash or exchange. Write what you have and 

 what you want. J. F. FRAZIER. Audubon, 

 Iowa. 



WANTED.— First class skins of Murrelets. 

 Gulls, Shearwaters, Rails, Shore Birds, 

 Grouse, Hawks, (,)wls, particularly Snowy 

 and Great Gray, and certain small land birds. 

 Offer representative Southern California 

 species, also tine sets of personally taken 

 Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. 

 All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY 

 I. OSBURN. Pasadena. Calif. 



WANTED. -Skins of Masked Bob-white, 

 Eskimo Curlew, San Pedro. Partridge. 

 Spotted Owl, Flamraulated Screech Owl, 

 Pribilof Sand Piper, Bristle-thighed Curlew, 

 and any other rare skins. J. F. FRAZIER. 

 Audubon, Iowa. 



COSTA RICA SKINS.— Write me your 

 wants. Bird and Mammel skins collected 

 from this locality for cash. HENRY F, 

 RA YEN. Box 73. Limon. Costa Rica. 



Any collectors having a few good labeled 

 specimens of foreign birds, send list. I will 

 give A 1 skins of Illinois and California birds. 

 Also offer skins of common specimens from 

 Illinois for nests and sets of small species. 

 HENRY K. COALE. Highland Park, Lake 

 Co.. 111. 



TO EXCHANGE. -Finely mounted birds 

 and deer heads, several hundred Natural 

 History and Sportsman's magazines, for 

 binl aijd mammal skins. GEO. F. GUELF, 

 Ta xidermist. Brockport. N. Y. 



WANTED.— All mounted specimens of 

 Woodcock. Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron. 

 al! Quails and Grouse, for cash. L. MILLER, 

 1129 E. Market St., Indianapolis, nd. 



