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THE OOLOGIST. 



l.flO WORTH OF PRIZES 



Will be Piesenled diiriag 1S93 to 

 The Patrons (Contributors and Readers) of 

 THE OOLOGIST. 

 Each month dining 1893 we shall 

 give five prizes. These prizes are to 

 be awarded to the tive best articles ap- 

 pearing in each mouth's Oologist. 



The prizes throughout the year wall 

 remain the same, except the first one 

 which will be the winner's choice from 

 the unawarded articles and publications 

 named in the following list: 

 Coues' "Key to North American 



Birds" $7 50 



Ridgway's "Manual of North 



American Birds" 7 50 



Chamberlain's "Nuttal's Ornithol- 

 ogy" (2 vols.) 8 00 



Gos-s's "Birds of Kausas" 7 50 



VVilson's(an(l Bonaparte's) "Amer- 

 ican Ornithology" 7 50 



Maynard's "Birds ofEasternNorth 



America" (text complete). 15 00 

 Washington Irviug's Works, 10 



\ols 7 50 



Wm. M. Thackeray's Works, 10 



vols 10 00 



Chas. Dickens' Works, 15 vols. . . 11 25 

 Jenk's "ComprehensiveCommen- 

 tary of the Holy Bible." 5 

 large 900 paged Volumes.. 25 00 

 Sir Walter Scott's Works, 12 vols 12 00 

 $10 worth of Phonographic Books 



and Publications 10 00 



An 8-qt. Jack Frost Ice Cream 



Freezer (i 50 



A Due-Bill good for$31.50towards 

 a new $46.50 MarlinRepeat- 



ing Ritle 31 50 



A Duo-Bill good for$33.00to wards 

 a new$45.00AmericanUnion 

 (same as New Home) Sew- 

 ing Machine 33 00 



A Due-Bill good for$]2.00towards 

 a new $20 double case Odeli 



Type writer 12 00 



2nd Prize each month will be a part 

 of "Maynard's Birds of Eastern North 

 America," each containing an average 

 of 8 plates and 340 pages strongly 

 bound in sti'oug manilla and cloth and 

 worth at ])ublisher's original price not 

 far from $7.50. 



od Prize — Langille's "Our Birds in 

 Their Haunts", $3.00 



4th Prize — Brewer's "North American 

 Oology" unbound, no plates, original 

 price about $3.00. 



5th Prize — Baird's Review of Ameri- 

 can Birds" originally sold at $2.00. 



Each article receiving at least a.-^ 

 many credits as there are number of 

 Judges and not winning one of the 

 leading prizes will be awarded the 

 OoLOGibT for 1893 bound ir. cloth and 

 gilt- 

 Each article receiving at least one- 

 half as man J credits as the number of 

 Judges and not winning any other 

 prize will be awarded a year's subscrip- 

 tion to the 0()LOGIST. 



All.Mss. prizes are sent by mail oi 

 express prepaid, excejJt the first, which 

 is shipped at winner's expense. 



You are a Judge. 



Yoti have been selected to act as one 

 of the Judges in this month's Prize 

 article contest, and your decision must 

 be pnmiptly and fairly given. 



Your decisi(jn must be mailed us not 

 later than the Jirst of 7iexi month. 

 Write on l)ack of a postal card the five 

 articles which yoti have decided to bi' 

 the most vahatble, iiistrziclive and inter 

 listing in this number of Oologist and 

 mail to us. Number the articles in the 

 order which you think the prizet- 

 should be awarded. 



We give our Judges live special 

 prizes, one to each of the five whose 

 decisions are nearest the final award of 

 prizes and in this month's competition 

 tlie Judge whose list of five articles is 

 the nearest the awarded list, we will 

 give a i)art (if Maynard's "Birds ot 

 Eastern Nortli America", each of these 

 parts contain an average, of 2 plat(*.s 

 and 264 pages, strongly bound in heavy 

 manilla covers and at puldisher's origi- 

 iual price are worth (it least $5.00. 



2d A handsomely bound book "Small 

 Talk about Business." 



3d A Combination icroscopi'. 



4th An Agatf Watch Charm. 



5th A Pock<l Knife. 



To each Judge naming the five prize- 

 winning articles in theirexact orderand 

 not winning one of the five special 

 l)rizes we will give ao i)y of the "Stand- 

 ard Catalogue of North America Bird.s 



Eggs.': 



To each Judge naming the prize- 

 winning articles but not in their exact 

 order and not winning one of the five 

 special i)rizes we will give a copy of 

 that elegant new CAlumlnis or World's 

 Fair Almauai-, (value 25 cts.). 



All Judges' prizes are sent by mail 

 ])repaid. 



Address your decision to 



F H Lattin & Co., 

 Albion, N. Y. 



