The Oologist 



A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. 



WANTS, FOR SALES AND EXCHANGES. 



Brief Special announcements " Wants," " Elxchanges," " For Sales," inserted in this de- 

 partment for 25 cents per 25 words. Notices over Jo words charged at the rate of 1-2 cent for 

 each additional word. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. Terms, cash with order. 



Strictly first-class specimens will be accepted in payment at 1-3 list rates. 



Vol. XXII. No. 1. 



ALBION, N. Y., JAN., 1905. 



Whole No. 210 



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. 



210 vour subscription expires with this issue 

 212 •' " •• Mar., 1905 



219 •' •• •' " Oct., 1905 



221 " " •■ " Dec, 1095 



257 '• " " " Dec, 1908 



Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- 

 mined. If we have you credited wrong we 

 wish to rectify. 



Entered as second-class matter December 

 21, 190.3, at the post ofHce at Albion, N. Y.. 

 under the Act of Congress of March .3, 1879. 



I HAVE a few very desirable sets for ex- 

 change, such as loons, alabatross. cranes, 

 falcons, kites and other Raptores, ducks with 

 down, etc. Warblers especially wanted. All 

 answered. A. E. PRICE .Grant Park, 111. stf 



WANTED.— Fine sets of Sharp Shinned 

 Hawks eggs. Will give handsome sets of 

 Aplomado Falcon at reduced rates. T. H. 

 JACKSON, 343 E. Biddle St., West Chester, 

 Pa. 



FOR SALE.— I have many back numbers 

 of various naturalhistory magazines, includ- 

 ing the Nidologist, Osprey. Museum, O and 

 O, Oologist, Audubon's Magazine and others; 

 Books and pamphlets on Natural History 

 subjects; some good bird and mammal 

 skins; marine invertebrates in formalin; 

 reptile and batrachians in formalin and al- 

 cohol; and various curios. Any of above 

 cheap for cash. No exchange desired. If you 

 have as much as fifty cents to invest send for 

 my lists, but don't write unless you mean 

 business. F. P. DROWNE, M. D.. 20 Bene- 

 fit St., Providence, R. I. N.4.t. 



CAN PAINT in oils almost any bird, life 

 size or under. Write for particulars. AL- 

 AN WRIGHT, 31 Kingsborough Ave., 

 Gloversville, N. Y. 



WANTED.— Clean copies of "Bird Nesting 

 in North West Canada." If you have a copy 

 send price to W. RAINE, Kew Beach, To- 

 ronto, Canada. 



BARGAIN.— Have a few good stamps left. 

 You get fine cash bargain if I supply your 

 wants. Will exchange for set of 325 or 311. 

 K. T. FULLEH, Box l-12Lacona. N. Y. 



BROWN'S ARTISTIC and Scientific Taxi- 

 dermy and Modelling, new, price $6.50 regu- 

 lar. Will send it prepaid for $14 worth first 

 class sets sent prepaid. Your selections if 

 you do not send the most common species. 

 B E N.I AMIN HOAG, Stephentown. New York 



I WILL sell my entire collection, bird 

 skins, eggs and life paintings of birds at a 

 bargain. Write for particulars. W.G.SAV- 

 A<;E, Monteer, Mo. 



RADIUM.- 1 am prepared to furnish 

 Radio-active substances of from one up to 

 t)ne million activity, and also to make de- 

 terminations on Radio-active minerals at 

 reasonable rates.- I have some of the finest 

 specimens of Radio-active ores to be ob- 

 tained, some of which have just been re- 

 turned from the St. Louis Exposition and 

 which I will exchange for fine Indian relics 

 or old U. S. coin«, or other Radio-active ores 

 not in my collection. No collection of min- 

 erals or curios is complete without a series 

 of these extremely interesting substances. 

 Have also for exchange a fine imported Ane- 

 roid barometer, both English and. Metric 

 scales. L. V. CASE,Tarrytown-on-fheHud- 

 son. N. Y. 



DAVIES NESTS AND EGGS 5 th ed. 

 cli)th, good as new, prepaid, for$4 worth first 

 class sets sent prepaid. BENJAMIN HOAG. 

 Stephentown. New York. 



WANTED.— Fresh skins or in the meat. 

 Great Horned Owl (or subspecies). Snowy 

 Owl., Ptarmigan, Mountain Partridge, 

 Hooded Merganser, Wood Duck. Sets of 

 Cuckoos, Am, Herring Gull, Least Tern, 

 Laughing Gull, Any Sandpiper or Plover. 

 What can you offer and what can you use? 

 ERNEST A. SHORT, Rochester. N. Y. 



WANTED-- Five hundred white weasel 

 skins, also furs of all kinds. Good prices 

 paid. For sale in the flesh, one wild cat, per- 

 fect specimen, also Mergansers and Golden 

 eyes. J. 2. t. ALVAH G. DORR, Bucksport 

 Maine, 



