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If you have friends who are interested in birds or whom you 

 wish to interest in birds send them 



Birb Core 



for Christmas. 



On receipt of the annual subscription price, one dollar, we will send as direct- 

 ed, and in due season, a properly inscribed, 7x10 Christmas card, a free copy of 

 the December. 1900 number, containing a plan for the year's study, and the mag- 

 azine for 1901. 



"Bird-Lore has on its own merits taken its place at the front In the list of popular natural history 



magazines."— T^e Auk. 



The Macmillan Co., Mulberry and Crescent Sts., Harrisburg, Pa. 



Special Bargains in Shells and Fossils. 



UNIONID^.— One hundred and thirty-four (134) species (American) 450 speci- 

 mens. All fresh live specimens. Worth at regular prices fully $100. Will send 

 the entire collection prepaid for only $28.40. 



RARE OLD SILVER COINS of Great Britain.— A collection of 50 pieces from 

 the reign of Henry II (1154) to that of Victoria. The collection contains coins 

 minted during the reigns of twenty-two (22) ot Great Britain's monarchs. The 

 collection lists about $55.00, will sell as a whole for $22. 50 prepaid. 



FOSSIL COLLECTION. A specially selected collection of Fossils for school 

 used to I sell at $100. One hundred (100) species and about 500 specimens ranging 

 in value from 5c. to $1.00 each. A very select and very valuable collection and is 

 largely composed of Fosf^il Corals, all carefully labeled and prepared, and well 

 worth $100. My price $33.50 prepaid. 



I have another collection similar to above put up to sell at $50.00, 100 species 

 and about 200 specimens which I will send prepaid for only $15.75i 



AN EGYPTIAN IDOL, carvpd from stone or lava 1000 or more years ago, rep- 

 resents an elephant or some other animal, measures about 4x2i in. Secured by a 

 missionary acquaintance from a mummy pit in Egypt and guaranteed genuine. 

 Prepaid only ,§3.15. 



LARGE CORALS. 1 specimen of the Plate Brain Coral, Meandrina clivosa, 

 from Bahamas measuring 22 in. in long diameter (16 in. short) worth $10; one of 

 true Brain Coral, Meandrina cerebriformis, 11 in. diam. worth $5.00; one specimen 

 of Pineapple Coral, Perites astrceoides, 10 in. diam. worth $3.00, will send the three 

 specimens prepaid for onlv $8.60> 



MOUND BUILDER'S RELIC6. We have hundreds of ordinary arrow and 

 spear heads and a few of the more common pieces such as sinkers, drills, scrap- 

 ers. &c, but have very few of the rare and desirable ones. The following we offer 

 at about one-half regular prices: Pipe ffom Brant Co., Ont., a very choice speci- 

 men, $4.90, prepaid; another from same locality of a more common and unat- 

 tractive form, $1.60, prepaid; Slate Pendant from Waterloo Co., Ont.. prepaid, 

 S5cts; Hematite Celt from Van Buren Co., Ark., prepaid, only $1.20. Ordin- 

 ary Stone Axe from Cumberland Co., N. J., prepaid, $1.30. I also have the 

 contents of a cache from Rowan Co., N. C, consisting of about 400 unnotched 

 arrow or spearheads of uniform size and form, about 2i long, will sell as a whole 

 "Very reasonable. 



NEPTUNE'S CUP or Vase Sponge, Paterion, from Tasmania. An odd and 

 curious specimen worth from $15 to $20, and we have never offered this specimen 

 lor less than $10 prepaid. It measures 24 in. high and the vase portion is 12 in. 

 in diam. It goes prepaid for only $7.QO, 



SPANISH CROSS inlaid with straw from an ancient church in Jemez, New 

 Mex. Curio dealers would ask $5.00 for it, but it's yours prepaid for $1.65. 



Address FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, Albion, N. Y. 



