THE OOLOGIST 



The Young Oologist, 



THK MOST POrULAH AND INSTRtJCTIVE MA(;AZINE, 



Devoted to Birds, Their Nests and Eggs, 



EVER PUBLISHED. - 



Appreciating its value, the Publisher reserved a limited quantity of each issue to 

 supply future demands. He now has. all told, 



LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED COMPLETE SETS. 



Collectors will readily see the advisability of completing their files or 



IW OBTAINING A COMPLETE SET AT ONCE. ,^ 



Back numbers will soon be exceedingly rare and valuable and possibly not obtainable 

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sCJOIO-TIBi^TS: 



The lollowing enumerates some of the principal articles in each issue and the price for which a copy may 

 be obtained : — 



The "short articles" are one column or less in length and of great value to the student. 



Not mentioned in the list of contents : each issue contains one or two pages of "items," one column to 

 two pages of exchange notices, and from three to eight pages of advertisements. 



Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 12, and i2rt, each contain 16 pages. 



Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, each contain 20 pages. 



Nos. 13 and 14, each contain 32 pages: and No. 11, contains 36 pages. 



No. I. — Instructions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, (3 pa- 

 ges); Coue's Key, Twenty-four short articles. 

 Price 10 cis. 

 'No. 2. — Instructions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, con- 

 , eluded, (2 pages); Painted Buntings; Cala. Mot- 

 tled Owl ; List of Birds Found at Montreal ; 24 

 short articles. 8 cts. 



No. 3. — Maine Item- ; Yellow-headed Blackbird ; 

 Orchard Oriole ; The Slip System ; Wilson's 

 Thrush ; Hand-book of Agassiz Association ; 23 

 short articles. 8 cts. 



No. 4. — Screech Owl ; Importance of Identification ; 

 A La. Heronry; Cardinal Grosbeak; Eagle's Nest; 

 How to Make ana Use Bird Lime; 14 short arti- 

 cles. 7 cts. 



No. 5. — Bird-nesting — To Collect Scientifically, i 3 

 pages) ; Cala. Birds ; From Wyoming ; 22 short 

 articles. 8 cts 



No. 6.— Bobolink, (2^ pages): Sea Birds of Maine; 

 Eeging in a Cala. bwamp ; Old "Put" and the 

 r.ird's Nest ; List of Wisconsin Birds ; 12 short 

 articles. 6 cts. 



No. 7. — Bronzed Grakle ; Singular Duel ; Fish Hawk; 

 Spurred 'J'owhee and Least Tit ; "Old" Put and 

 the Bird's Nest ; Bird Island ; 14 short articles. 

 6 cts. 



No. 8. — The Alligator ; Collecting in Marshes ; 

 Woodcock ; "Our Birds in Their Haunts ;" Iowa 

 Notes; Redstart; Summer Redbird ; 18 ^horc ar- 

 ticles. 8 <:/.f. 



No. 9.— Baltimore Oriole ; Te.\as Jottings ; Sap- 

 suckers ; Barn Owl ; American Ornithologists' 

 Union, (3 pages) ; How to Handle a Gun ; Black- 

 capped Titmouse ; Eag of the Moa. 10 cts. 



No. 10. — Winter Wren; Cala. Duck-hunting; Screech 

 Owl ; Davie's Egg Check List ; Peacock With 

 Queer Tastes; White-bellied Nuthatch; Blue 

 Jays , Spotted Robin Eggs ; 8 short articles, sets. 



No. II. — Bank Swallow; Lnglish Sparrows; Study 

 ot Birds; Gt. Horned Owl; Vellow-billed Cuckoo; 

 Gambel's Quail ; Conn. Notes ; Intelligence of 

 the Oriole ; Vellow-breast Chat : Maryland Yel- 

 low-throat ; White-rumped Shrike ; List of Paci- 

 fic Coast Birds ; Knights of Audubon ; Sample 

 Data Blanks, (4 pages) ; 32 short articles. 12 cts. 



No. 12. — Completes I'ol. I. Title cages for binding, 

 with complete and exhaustive inde.v, (8 pages . 



-LOCtS. _ . ' 



No. 12 rt. — Special edition for advertising purposes, 

 same as No. 12, except being printed on lighter 

 paper and the title pages being replaced with ad- 

 vertising. 3 cts. 



No. 13. — Bartram's Gardens ; South Carolina Obser- 

 vations, (6 pages) ; Scientific Names ; Gt. Homed 

 Owl ; Bank Swallows ; Knights of Audubon ; 

 Hummingbird; R. 1. Notes; Texas Jottin-^s ; 

 30 short articles. 15 cts. 



No. 14. — Americaii Crossbill ; Audubon's Birds of 

 America; Illinois Notes; Destruction of Birds; 

 Cuckoos ; Cala. Notes ; Wrens on the Warpath ; 

 Golden-winged Warbler ; Fox Sparrow ; Our 

 Winter Birds ; Snipe Creek ; Red-head ; Wiscon- 

 sin Jottings ; Burrowing Owl, etc. ; A Florida 

 Trip ; Horned Lark ; Queer Homes and Nesting 

 Sites ; Brave Bird ; Ferruginous Rough Leg ; 

 .Sparrows ; Pigmy Nuthatch ; 26 short articles. 

 12 cts. 



^° Vol. I., Complete (184 pages), will be sent post-paid for only 75 cts. 



Vol. I. and II., Complete (248 pages}, and "THE OOLOGISTS' HAND-BOOK" 



W'JiX BE MAILMD POSTPAID FOR O^LY $1.06. 



NOS. 10 AND Vln WILL BE SENT TO THOSE DESIRING SAMPLES FOR FIVE CENTS. 



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



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