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and their songs and representation of 

 old time plantation life Soutli will be 

 worth going a long journey to see. 



There are many other features pecul- 

 iarly Southern that will be shown. 

 The visitors to the Buffalo Exposition 

 this year will have an opportunity of 

 seeing one of the most novel and inter- 

 esting exhibitions ever presented to the 

 ptiblic. This arrangement has been 

 brought about principally through the 

 influence of the live Manager of the 

 Buffalo Exposition, Mr. Geo. M. Robin- 

 son, of Elmira, N. Y., Mr. Robinson 

 and a committee A'isited the Southern 

 Inter-State Exposition last fall at Ral- 

 eigh and i)laced the advantages of an 

 Exposition of the products of the South 

 at Buffalo before Mr. Patrick and -since 

 then Mr. Roljiusou has been pressing 

 the matter until it has been linally set- 

 tled that the South is to be represented 

 at the Butl'alo Exposition. 



Prizes for Best Articles- 



We have decided to give our 

 jjatrons, each month, five prizes. 

 These prizes are to be awarded 

 to the five best articles appearing in the 

 OoLOGiST in which the offers are made. 



For the five articles in t/iis (Jun.) OoLO- 

 GIST which are the most instructive, 

 valuable and interesting we shall give as 

 follows: 



1st prize — A Part of Maynard's Birds 

 of Eastern North America, bound in 

 boards and leather. 



2nd prize — Davie's Key to the Nests 

 and Eggs of^ N. A. Birds, in e cloth. 



3d prize — Same as 2d pi'ize, in paper. 



4th prize — Hagerup's ' 'Birds of Green- 

 land." 



5th prize — Leverkuhn's ••FremdeEier 

 Im Nest." 



For the July competition we will 

 give a similar set of prizes, and through- 

 out the year the aggregate value of 

 these monthly prizes will not be less 

 than ten dollars. The value of prizes 

 ottered this month is $15.00. 



The articles entering into competition 

 must contain at least one hundred 

 words and we prefer that they do not 

 exceed seven hundred words, unless 

 they fairly teem with very, veiy inter- 

 esting facts or happeniug.s — Remember 

 that "fancies," ' rehashes," "si)arrow 

 stories" and articles of a similar nature 

 are not solicited and will rarely be 

 found "available." 



THE JUDGES: You have been seU 

 ected to act as one of the Judges in, 

 these Prize article contests, and youi^ 

 deci.sion must be promptly and fairly 

 given, and in no case later than the- 

 10th of the month following the one on 

 which the Oologist was issued upon 

 which your decision is given. 



Your decision for this month's com- 

 petition must be mailed us not later 

 than July 20th. Write on the back of a. 

 postal card the articles which yoti have 

 decided to be the most valuable, instruc- 

 tive and interesting in this number of 

 Oologist and mail to us. Number the 

 articles in the which you think the 

 prizes should be awarded. 



We have also decided to give our 

 Judges five prizes, one to each of the 

 five whose decisions are nearest the 

 final award of prizes and in the April 

 competition the Judge whose list of 

 five articles is the nearest the awarded 

 list, we will give a copy of Davie's Key 

 to the Nest and Eggs of N. A. Birds, 

 paper. 2d and 3d each a Book relating 

 to Natural History, elegantly bound in 

 cloth and gilt. 4th and oth each a set 

 of Noddy. In case of a tie, the earliest 

 mailed list takes the prize. 



Address Frank H. Lattin, 

 Albion, N. Y. 



Detroit, Mich., June 17. 



The well known Naturalist and Tax- 

 idermist, Mr. W. H. Collins, of this city 

 died on the 11th inst, of heart disease. 



Mr. Collins will be remembered by 

 the old readers of ornithological publi 

 cations, to which he contributed a num- 

 ber of interesting articles froai 1876 to 

 1884. 



W. A. D. 



Examine the little rose-colored address label 

 on ilie wrapper ot the Oologist. The number 

 foUowing name denotes the time when your sutK 

 scriptiou e.xphes or has expired. 

 .56 signifies your subscription expired June 1S90, 

 62 '• '• " •• Dec. •' 



68 " " " '• June 1S91 



74 '• " •• " Dec. 



60 " " •• will expire June 1892 



S6 " " Dec. 



92 " " June 189a 



We are desirous ot straightening our subscnp- 

 tion books at once and trust our subscribers will 

 send in their subscriptions for '92 Including all 

 arrearages, at their earliest conveniences, tho 

 amounts necessary to accomplish this are aa 

 follows: 



".56"— $1.25. "62'— $1.00. "68"— 7.5C. "74"— .500. 



Should you desire to discontinue your subscrlp-v 

 tion to tlie Oologist yoiu- indebtedness to us 1& 

 25 cents less than the above amounts. The tig- 

 ures.are according to our books June l. 1S92 and 

 renewals sent since that date have been credited 

 on our books, but not on the label. 



