THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY 



FRANK E. LATTIN. 



ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondence and Items of Interest to the 

 student of Birds, tlielr Nests and Eggs, solicited 

 from all. 



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 to , FRAN K H . LATTIN, 



Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. 



Entered at the Post ornce at Albion, N. Y., as 

 second-class mall niattei-. 



Jottings. 



This is the last number of the Oologist 

 that will be sent to ls88 subscribers unless 

 they have or will renew their subscription. 



We m.ail with this issue another copy of 

 nnr Premium List; will our friemls please 

 hand it, if not wanted for their own use, to 

 some cue whom Vaej think it mi^ht interest. 



That '88 prize nvticle competition will be 

 decided in time to announce the result in 

 next Oologist podtively. The fortunate com- 

 petiors will receive good interest for the 

 delay. 



"The Naturalists' Directory'' as printed 

 on the cover pa,:;e we predict, will prove a 

 great success- Vvide-awake collectors will 



not fail to have their names enrolled at one*. 

 In order that they will give the Directory 

 a trial, we will, in March Oologist only, in- 

 sert their names in any department, for 

 only 5 cents, and 3 cents for each additional 

 branch. If by the 1st of July next this 

 investment has not paid back principal and 

 interest at the rate of 500 per cent, your 

 money will be refunded. 



Many write us desiring to exchange spec- 

 imens for a year's subscriiition to the 

 Oologist . For 75 cents worth of first class 

 specimens, birds' eggs preferred, we will 

 send the Oologist for '89. No preniir.m 

 can be selected with this offer. 



It must be distinctly understood that all 

 snbscrii^tions, received during '80 mutt 

 begin with Jan. issue and in reply to many 

 inquiries, we will say that after Feb. 1st we 

 will send the Oologist free for '89 to any 

 one purchasing anything we advertise to the 

 amount of $2.00 or over. 



Should 5'ou desire any of Davie's e<.gs 

 you must order at once. 



The prices in our Sept. '88. 'Bulletin will 

 hold good through '89. 



Scarceh a mail comes in but what we 

 receive one or more letters without signa- 

 ture. From Feb. 1st. until Aug. 1st, we 

 do not receive less than fifty and sometimes 

 over one Jmnch'ed letters a mail. How we 

 can fill orders without the names of the 

 writers attached, we are at a loss to under- 

 stand. We are now waiting for colleetors 

 from the following places to call us 

 "frauds" and like pet names in oi'der that 

 we may forward a package of goods ordered, 

 which we cannot, owing to the fact that 

 they did not sign their names to their order : 



New Haven, Vermont, $1.53 



Kalamazoo, Mich., 1.35 



West Chester, Pa., 1 00 



The last letter came last summer, and the 

 writer must feel quite resigned to the fate 

 of his dollar, for we have never heard any 

 complaint. 



