THE OOLOGIST. 



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of the cicti are branched, but these 

 braiu-hes are themselves almost always 

 so high that even if one got into the 

 t-rotch, he would still have to make a 

 further ascent. 



Of course it haabeen done and can be 

 done again; Davie speaks of certain col- 

 lectors taking sets of eggs from those 

 cacti, and what I want io know is how 

 they did it. 



If locomotion on a pair of tifteeen foot 

 stilts was practicable on the desert 

 sands of Arizona, obviously the prob- 

 lem wo.ild be solved to perfection, but 

 unhappily it is not. Now I want some 

 of those sets this season, and any hints 

 from the readers of this paper would be 

 received with gratitude. 



H. H. D., iMuruix, Ariz. 



You are a Judge. 



You have been selected to act as one 

 of the Judges in this month's Prize 

 article contest, and your de.isiim must 

 be primiptly and fairly given. 



Your (lei-ision must be mailed us not 

 later than Feb. lUth. Write on back of 

 a postal card the live articles which you 

 have decided to be the most, valuable, 

 instruclicc and interesting in this num- 

 ber of (JoLOGiST antl mail to us. Num- 

 ber the articles in the order which you 

 tiiink the prizes shonkl l)e awarded. 



We also give our Judges five special 

 prizes, one to each of ihe live whose 

 decisions are nearest the linal award of 

 pi-izes and in this month's competition 

 the Juilges whose list of five articles is 

 the nearest the awarded list, we will 

 give a part of Maynard's "Birds of 

 Eastern North America", eacli of these 

 parts contain in the average, "i plates 

 and 2(54 ])age3 strongly bound in heavy 

 manilla covers and at pui)lisher's origi- 

 nal price are worth at li:ast $.").(J0. 



2d A han<lsomely bound book "Small 

 Talks al)ont Busitu'ss." 



yd A collection of '20 common eggs. 



4th A collection of 10 good jninerals. 



5th A oO cent pkg. of Novelties. 



To eacJi .hulge naming the live prize- 

 winning articles in the exact oriler and 

 not winning one of the ti\e special 

 ])rizes wt; will give a copy of the "Stand- 

 ard catalogue of North America Birds 



io each Judge naming the )>rize- 

 winning articles but not m their exact 



order autl not winning one of the 

 five special prizes w e will give a copy 

 of that elegant new Columbus or 

 World's Fair Almanac. 

 Address your decision ;o 



Frank H.Lattix, 



Albion, N. Y. 



"Our Birds in Their Haunts." 



My Dear Sir:'' 



Please say through the 0()L0GIST that, 

 the cause of the great detention of my 

 work, the printing of "Our Birds in 

 Their Haunts." is this: The printers 

 promising to put on it extra hands and 

 work it olV in a hurry, lia\e simply 

 worked it off at their leisure. Mean- 

 while they have gained time by 

 telling me falsehoods, which I have un- 

 wittingly lepeated to my subscribers. 

 The work once })artly done and largely 

 paid for, it could not well l>e 'put into 

 other hands. The printing is now about 

 done, and as the binding is to be done 

 elseAvhere, I trust 1 shall soon have it 

 Yours truly. 

 J. H. Langille. 

 Dec. 3 'i)2. Kensington, Md. 



away. 



Latkh. 

 My Dear Friend Lull in: 



After the greatest efforts I have been 

 able to inake continously since last May, 

 I tiually got the folded sheets of "Our 

 Birds in their Haunts" into the hands 

 of the binder last week. I shall hurry 

 the binder all I can. He is a reliable 

 man. I have positivc^ly snffei-ed with 

 anxiety over the matter. Can you say 

 anything iu the next issue of the Oolo- 

 GIST to explain? 



Yours most truly 

 J. H. Langile, 

 Dec. 2i, 1892. Kensington, Md. 



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