THE OOLOGIST. 



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la order to be positive I sliot the 

 male bird Avhicli prove I lie^ouil any 

 <ioubt tlie identity. 



I have siuee tlieu. this fall, shot sev- 

 eral more of the Cerulean 'Warbler, 

 Avhic'h duriujj; migration time seems to 

 be quite al)undant in our neighbor- 

 hood. 



Edwaki) Keineckk.. 



OCTOBER CONTEST. 



Sixty-three Judges 



Prize winners and credits received by 

 each were as follows: 



1. Among the Hummingbirds. 255. 



2. The Genus Thryothocus. 208. 



3. The Californian Bush-Tit. 153. 



4. A Ramble in May. 130. 



5. The History and Mystery of Jacob 

 Potter, Jr. 87. 



Two other articles received 45 and 59 

 credits respectively. 



Seventeen Judges named the win- 

 ning articles — one their exact order 

 and four in the following order: — 1,2, 

 3, 5, 4— these live received the Judges 

 prizes. 



1. No. 30 — Chester Irvine, George- 

 town, Texas. 



2. No. 3— Frank H. Nutter, Minnea- 

 polis, Minn. 



3. No. 21 — A. O. Garrett, Lawrence, 

 Kans. 



4. No. 32— E. J, Shaefer, New Or- 

 leans, La. 



5. No. 47— C. Barlow; Santa Clara, 

 Cal. 



Prizes were miiled November, 23d. 



CARR'S NATURAL HISTORY STORE. 



Sea Shells. Corals. Minerals. Hird Skins and 

 Eggs, Curios. Supplies for Taxidermists, Knto- 

 mologests. liotanists and Oologists. Taxid- 

 •ermy in all Urauches of the art. Gold fish and 

 aquarunis. 



40 page Illustrated Catalogue for 2c stamp. 



C. F. CARR, Madison, Wis. 



Prizes for Best Articles 



We giveour patrons, eat-h month, live 

 prizes. These |)ri/,es are awarded to 

 the tive best articles ai)i)earing in the 

 OiiLOGiST in which the otters are made. 



For the tive articles in this (Dec.) OoL- 

 OGiST which are the most instructive, 

 valuai)le 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 cloth. 



3d prize — Same as 2d prize, in paper. 



4th prize— Vol. 1 ('84-'85) Young Ool- 

 OGIST, bomid in cloth. 



5th prize— Vol. IH and IV ('86-'87) 

 ThE'Oologist, bound in cloih. 



For 1893 a mere valvalle series of prizes 

 will be offered. Full particulars will be 

 given in January Oologist- 



THE JUlXiES: Yon have lieen se- 

 lected to act as one of the Judges in 

 these Prize article contests, and your 

 decision must be promptly and fairly 

 given. 



Your decision for this month's com- 

 petition must be mailed us not later 

 than Jan. 10th. Write on back of a 

 postal card the articles which yuii have 

 decided to be the most valuable, instruc- 

 tive (uid inlercstin^i in this number of 

 Oologist and mail to us Numl)cr the 

 articles in the oi'der which you think 

 the prizes should be awarded. 



We also give our Judges live prizes, 

 one to each of the live whose decisions 

 are nearest the tinal award of prizes and 

 in this months com|)etition the Judgs 

 whose list of live articles is the ncnirest 

 the awarded list, we Avill give a copy of 

 Davie's Key to the Nest ami Eggs of N. 

 A. Birds, paper. 2d ancl 3(1 e;ich a 

 Book relating to Natural History, ele- 

 gantly boumi in cloth and gi'i. 4tl) 

 and 5th e:u-h a set of Noddy. In case 

 of a tie, the earlist maih'd list lakes ihe 

 prize. Address 



Frank H. I^ai iin. 



Albion. N. V. 



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Handling tin' iastkst -i:i,i,in(; ariiilfuii n-cord 

 OVER A MILLION iSULD IW jeHILAuELFHIA! 



No matter w litMV .\ou reside: ever.vljody 

 wants them. Write to-day. enclosing :.'(• i-iamb 

 and we will mail you I Kree SaInl)le^^ and full 

 \)arlicular>. whii'h will enal'le j<>u Io<-o7nrnenro 

 work at once. Circul .rs free. SMITH MFG. 

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