The Oologist. 



A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. 



WANTS, FOR SALES AND EXCHANGES, 



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 partment for 25 cents per 25 words. Notices over 25 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. 3. 



ALBION, N. Y., MAR., 1905. 



Whole No. 212 



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. 



212 vour subscription expires with this issue 

 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, 1903, at the post office at Albion, N. Y.. 

 under the Act ot Congress of March 3, 1879. 



I HAVE a few very desirable sets for ex- 

 change, such as loons, alabatross. cranes, 

 falcons, kites and other Kaptores, 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 natural history magazines, includ- 

 ing the Nidologist, Osprey, Museum, () 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. ^Yo exchange (tesirert. 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.. 2(i Bene- 

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



DO YOU ever Trap. If so you want "The 

 Amateur Trapper." by Stanley Harding, tells 

 you how to make traps for catching the 

 Muskrat, Beaver, Otter. Mink, Martin, Fish- 

 er, Skunk, (Jopher, Squirrel, Raccoon, Opos- 

 sum, Fox, Wolf and Bear, also how to cure 

 and Tan Skins. Cloth. Contains 134 pages, 

 with 50 illustrations. Send 50c. to OLIVER 

 M. DAVIE, Columbus, O.. and get one pre- 

 paid. J. 2. t. 



WANTED.— Fresh skins or in the meat. 

 Great Horned Owl for 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 H. SHORT. Rochester. N. Y. 



WANTED- Five hundred white weasel 

 skins, also furs of all kinds. Good prices 

 paid. For sale in the flesh, one wildcat, per- 

 fect specimen, also Mergansers and (iolden 

 eyes. J. 2. t. ALVAH G. DORR. Buck sport 

 Maine. 



WILL EXCHANGE.— During coming seas- 

 on, sets collected in Texas for eggs not in my 

 collection. Full datas. Also butterflies and 

 moths. (iEOF. GILES. San Antonio. Tex. 



WANTICD.— Correspondence with people 

 who are interested in the painting of birds. 

 ALAN WRKtHT, 31 Kingsborough Ave., 

 ( Jloversville, N. Y. 



WANTED. -Another copy of Ridgway's 

 Manual, must not be too badly soiled. Will 

 pay cash, or trade Winchester rifle, 44 Cal., 

 Mod. 1873, in good condition. R. PEARCE 

 SMITHWICK, 1.33 Mariner St., .\orfolk. 

 Yirghua. 



WANTED.-All kinds of Live Wild Birds 

 and Animals. State prices when writing. 

 Don't ask me what I pay. DR. CECIL 

 FRENCH, Naturalist. Washington, D. C. J12t 



FOR SALE. -Guitar, Tandem bicycle. In- 

 cubator, Bflat cornet. Eggs, Coins, Show 

 coops, Oologist's Osprey's Popular Science, 

 Nidiologist, Condor. OTHO N. (iAY. Men- 

 don. 111. 



WANTED. -A few first class skins of 

 Contopus borealis. State lowest cash price. 

 F. S. DAGGETT, 241 Rialto BIdg., Chicago, 

 111. 



FOR SALE.- Pacific Railroad Reports. 

 Volumes, 9, Birds, 8, Mammals, 6, 10.12, Birds, 

 Mammals, Fishes, Reptiles. Shells, etc. Five 

 large quarto volumes bound in cloth. 265 

 full page plates, including 38 Rne colored 

 plates of birds. All in good condition. The 

 five volumes for $7.00. F. F. DROWNE, 

 M. D., 20 Benefit St., Prov.. R. I. 



