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THE OOLOGIST. 



THE OOLOGIST. 



SDITES AlTD PUBLISHES BI-M0^THL7 



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



Correspondence and items of interest to the student 

 of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited from all. 



Terms of Subscription. 



Single Subscription, 

 Sample Copies, 



The above rates include postage and premium 



50c per Annum. 

 - 8c each. 



Terms of Advertising, 



Made known upon application. Send copy for 

 estimate. 



Remittances should be made by draft on New 

 York ; money order or postal note payable at Albion, 

 N. \ ., registered letter, or bj' the American, U. S., or 

 Wells & Fargo Express Co. Money Order. Unused 

 U. S. postage stamps of any denomination will be 

 accepted for sums under one dollar. Make money 

 orders and drafts payable and address all subscrip- 

 tions and communications to, 



FRANK H. LATTIN, 



Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. 



JOTTINGS. 



All copy for the next Oologist must 

 reach us before May first. 



Remember the Oologist is now a Bi- 

 Mouthly, and that if you do not receive the 

 next issue until June 1st, it's on time. 



Winter prize contest closes March 20th. 

 We can almost safely say that not to ex- 

 ceed ten names will take the first prize. 



Davie's new " Check List" is selling like 

 hot cakes. It already requires three figures 

 to express the number of copies we have 

 sold. 



If you want the Oologist monthly, speak 

 a good word for it to j^our collector friends 

 and induce them to subscribe. Every new 

 name will count one towards that "2,000." 



We have in press the neatest and handi- 

 est Checking List of the Nomenclature of 

 N. A. Birds you ever saw, printed on extra 

 fine paper, eight pages, three foldings, and 

 it will go nicely into a No. 6 envelope. 

 Send two cents for sample and see for jour- 

 self. 



Yucatan Jay and Fossil premiums are 

 exhausted. We " told you so. " The sup- 

 ply of many of our other premiums is 

 nearly exhausted. 



We are pleased to note that Mr. J. Park- 

 er Norris, a prominent lawyer of Philadel- 

 phia, has taken charge of the oological de- 

 partment of the Ornitliologist and Oiilofjist, 

 of Boston. Mr. N. is not a novice in writ- 

 ing up "bird-happenings," and we predict 

 that the present Vol. of the 0. & 0., oolog- 

 ically at least, will be the most valuable 

 ever published. 



We most heartily thank our friends for 

 the liberal manner in which they have sent 

 in their subscriptions and articles for the 

 Oologist. We hardly want our friends to 

 think we are "awful greedj^" but we do 

 want 1,000 more subscribers and "lots" of 

 interesting original bird-notes — notes on the 

 more rare species preferred. With these 

 two most essential requisites we can make 

 the Oologist the best monthly bird-maga- 

 zine ever published. 



We regret to announce that the original 

 plates intended for Davie's new "Check 

 List," have been destroyed by fire at the 

 olfice of the engravers, Crosscup & West, 

 Philadelphia. The originals are now being 

 duplicated, and we expect to be enabled to 

 fill all orders bj^ April 1st. Being sole 

 wholesale agent for this valuable work, it 

 is needless to add that our patrons can de- 

 pend upon receiving their coi^ies as soon as 

 ssued. 



If you wish to aid us in giving your or- 

 ders and communications the earliest pos- 

 sible attention, and to avoid making mis- 

 takes, which sometimes will happen, care- 

 fully read the following and when writing 

 have each subject on a separate slip of 

 paper. 



1. Business or personal letters. 



2. Queries (either to be answered by 

 mail or in the Oologist.) 



3. Anything to be printed in the Oolo- 

 gist, including "exchanges and wants," 



