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THE OOLOGIST. 



1.00 WORTH OF PRIZES 



Will be Pieseuted during 18U3 to 

 The Patrons (Contributors and Readers) of 

 THE COLOGIST. 

 Each month during 1893 we shall 

 give live prizes. These prizes are to 

 be awai'ded to the five best articles ap- 

 pearing in each month's OoLOGisT. 



The prizes throughout the year will 

 remain the same, except the first one 

 which will be the winner's choice from 

 the unawarded articles and publications 

 named in thefoUoAving list: 

 •Coues' "Kej* to J^oi'th American 



Birds' $7 50 



Ridgway's "Manual of North 



American Binls" 7 50 



C!hamberlain's"Nuttars Ornithol- 

 ogy" (2 vols.) 8 00 



Goss's "Birds of Kansas" 7 50 



Wilson's(ai]d Bonaparte's) "Amer- 

 ican Oi'uithology" 7 50 



Maynard's" Birds of EasternNorth 



America" (text complete). 15 00 

 Washington Irviug's Works, 10 



Aols 7 50 



Wm. M. Thackeray's Works, 10 



A'ols ... 10 00 



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

 .Jenk's "ComprehensiveCommen- 

 tary of the Holy Bible." 5 

 • large 000 paged Volumes.. 25 00 

 Sir Walter Scott's Works, 12 vols 12 00 

 $10 woi'th of Phonographic Books 



and Publications 10 00 



An 8-qt. Jack Frost Ice Cream 



Freezer 6 50 



A Due-Bill good for$31.50towards 

 a new $46.50 MarliuRepeat- 



ing Ritie 31 50 



A Due-Bill good for$33.00towards 

 a new$45.00AmericanUuiou 

 (same as New Home) Sew- 

 ing Machine 38 00 



A Due-Bill good f()r$12.00towards 

 a new $20 double caseOdell 



Type writer 12 00 



2nd Prize each mouth will be a part 

 of "Maynard's Birds of Eastern North 

 America," each containing an average 

 of 8 i)lates and 340 pages strongly 

 bound in strong manilla and cloth and 

 worth at publisher's original price not 

 far from $7 50. 



3d 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" originallv .'-old at $2.00. 



Each article receiving at least as 

 many credits as there are number of 

 Judges and not winning one of the 

 leading prizes will be awarded the 

 OiiLOGiST for 181)3 bound iv cloth and 

 gilt. 



Each article receiving at least one- 

 half as manj credits as the number of 

 Judges and not winning any other 

 prize will be awarded a year's subscrip- 

 tion to the OoLOGiST. 



All Mss. prizes are sent by mail or 

 express pi'epaUl, except the first, which 

 is shipped at winner's expense. 



You are a Judge. 



Yo^t have been selected to act as one 

 of the Judges in this mouth's Prize 

 article contest, and your dei'ision must 

 be promptly and fairly given. 



Your deci.siou must be mailed us not 

 later than the twentieth of Decern Ijer. 

 Write on back of a postal card the five 

 articles which yoti have decided to be 

 the most valuable, instructive and inter- 

 esting in this uuniber of Oologist and 

 mail to us. Number the articles in the 

 order which you think the pi"izes 

 should be awarded. 



We give our Judges five special 

 prizes, one to each of the five whose 

 decisions are nearest the final award of 

 prizes and in this month's competition 

 the Judge whose list of five articles is 

 the nearest the awarded list, we will 

 give a part of Maynard's "Birds of 

 Eastern North America", each of these 

 parts contain an average, of 2 plates 

 and 264 pages, sti'ongly bound in heavy 

 manilla covers and at publisher's origi- 

 inal price are Avorth at least $5.00. 



2d A handsomely bound book "Small 

 Talk about Business." 



3d A Combination A.icroscope. 



4th An Agate Watch Cbarm. 



5th A Pocket Knife. 



To each Jutige naming tiie five prize- 

 Avinning articles in theirexact orderand 

 not Avinning one of • the live special 

 prizes Ave Av ill give a copy of the "Stand- 

 ard Catalogue of North "America Birds 

 Eggs." 



To each Judge naming the prize- 

 Aviuning articles but not in their exact 

 order aud notAvinniug one of the five 

 special prizes we will give a copy of 

 that elegant new Columbus or World's 

 Fair Almanac, (value 25 cts.). 



All Judges' prizes are sent by mail 

 pi-epaid. 



Address your decision to 



F. H. Lattin & Co., 



Albion, N. Y. 



