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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY 



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FRANK H. LATTIN, - ALBION, N. Y. 



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 to, FKANK II. I,.\TTIN. 



Ai.iaoN, Orleans Co., N. Y. 



Entered at the I'ost olTice at Albion. N. Y., a? 

 second-class mail matter. 



Our Reply. 



A little auiatetir four ]in<ie sheet published 

 in erne of the great cities of the Empire 

 State has seen fit to give the Oologist and 

 its pnhli.slier a t^ratititons advertising i)uff in 

 its editorial eolr.nms, this pnff we vvoidd 

 have never discoverid, had not some of our 

 friends to whom samples (?) had been sent, 

 written us very kind and flattering words in 

 r gnrd to both the Oologist and its publish- 

 er, and also had we not receive a letter from 

 the publisher of "the sheet" from which 

 we quote — "tmst you will reply to onr ar- 

 ticle in last itinidser of our paper, through 

 the columns of the Oologist." Vv^ere it 

 not for these circumstances we v~o ild have 

 been so busy attending to our own business 

 that the biilliant, suggestive and highly iu- 

 ptnictiye article would have entirely escap- 



ed our notice; and even if it had not, we 

 should not have considered of snlhcient 

 importance to have noticed it, and now be- 

 ing in the midst of the busiest season we 

 ever experienced, we have neither the <ime, 

 nor space to devote to a suitable rei)ly, even 

 if the article had been printed by a publica- 

 tion of standing, but as it is we simply 

 make a few statements which, if not already 

 self evident, we can verify with both fdcts 

 and fujtm.s. 



1st The writer of the article is not a 

 true Oologist. 



2d. He does not understand his own 

 busine.ss, let alone that of the publisher of 

 the Oologist. 



ord. As long as the publisher of the 

 Oologist coiidutts hi« business honestl}', a 

 disinterested paity should attend to his own 

 aifairs. 



4th. 'J'he actual number of paid snb- 

 scii) tions to the Oon gist is gieater than 

 of all other Ameriian publications devoted 

 t J ornithology and oology combined. 



5th. That the actual aveiage circulation 

 of the Oologist has been tiro thouxandfite 

 /tu}idred(2 5U0)copies each issue for the past 

 six ycais. 



Gth. A subscriber has never yet ccun- 

 plained to the publisher that he was not re- 

 ceiving the worth of his moLey, 



7th. Hundreds have written sa\iug that 

 t'loy wotild not be without the Oologist 

 fir many times its present jirice. 



8th. Should the Oologi?;t have any sub- 

 scriber, or subscribers that can honestly 

 claim that they aie not receiving informa- 

 tion in regard to birds, their nests and eggs 

 of greater value to them than the amount 

 invested, we will return their money with 

 50 per' cent, interest. 



9th. The publisher of the Oologist 

 publishes and agrees to publish eight pages 

 of in^truc1ive matter relating to ornithok)gy 

 and oology in each monthly issue, if more 

 is pnblished it is the subsciibers gain. 



loth. The advertising pages are priiite 1 

 at the publishers expense, and should their 

 n indi3r ever be so great as to jar the lujre 

 sensitive natures of our subscribers or the 

 iealons ones of our exchanges, it is our re- 



