The Oologist 



A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. 



VOL. XVIII. NO. 4. 



ALBION, N. Y., APRIL, 1901. 



Whole No. 175 



Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. 



Brief special announcements, "Wants," "Exctianges" "For Sales," Inserted In tills department 

 tor 25c per 2,5 words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional 

 word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. 



Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted In payment at one-third list rates. 



What's Your Number? 



Examine the number following your name 

 on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It 

 denotes when your subscription expired or 

 will expire. 



No. 175 your subscription expires with this issue 

 180 " " " •' Sept., '• 



184 •' '■ " " Dec, " 



Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- 

 mined. If we have you credited wrong we 

 wish to rectify. 



TMDftRTSIifT Tbii^ April Oologist was Is- 

 Ifflr Un 1 tt ni . sued April 15th. The May is- 

 sue will be printed on May 1st. Copy intended 

 for that issue must be forwarded by return 

 nfail. 



WANTED.-CoUectors throughout the United 

 States and Canada to collect for me scientifl- 

 cally birds' eggs in sets, with full data, at 34 

 Lattin's catalogue rates. DR. M. T. CLECK- 

 LEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. 175 



WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor- 

 mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon- 

 strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs. 

 Will give cash or good exchange. J. WARREN 

 JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101 



"The one exchange notice I had in The Oolo- 

 gist last year was so successful that it kept 

 me busy all the year with exchanges." J. 

 GORDON, Wigtownshire, Scotland. 



"I take numbers of ornithological and oolo- 

 gical journals, but whenever I wish to buy or 

 sell anything I turn to the want columns of 

 the OOLOOiST. ' ' HARRY h . DUNN, Fullerton, 

 Calif. 



PHEASANT EGGS FOR HATCHING.— On 

 and after May first I will be ready to supply 

 settings of Mongolian Ring Neck Pheasants. 

 Settings of 15, price $4. Orders booked now. A. 

 W. PERRIOR, 1409 So. Salina St., Syracuse, 

 N. Y. 174 



OOLOGISTS WANTED:— Will pay 50cts. 

 each cash for one of each June 1888, and April 

 1889, and will give an exchange notice, or cou- 

 pon good for one, for copies of the January 

 1895 and April 1899 issue, a notice for each copy. 

 FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y. 



TO EXCHANGE.— For sets, almost complete 

 volumes of Osprey, Nidologist, Museum. Also 

 foreign stamps. Write what you want to com- 

 plete files. HAROLD M. HOLLAND, Gen. De- 

 livery, San Diego, Calif. 



AUKS '94, '95 and '96 and 3 sets, 4 eggs of 

 Marsh Hawk to exchange for cash or snap-shot 

 camera and outfit. No cheap trash wanted. S. 

 J. ADAMS, Cornish, Maine. 



FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.— Minerals and 

 curiosities, old books and newspapers, coin 

 sale catalogues, natural science papers and 

 magazines. GEO. WALTHER, RushvlUe, 

 Yates Co , N. Y. 



WANTED.— A few fresh skins of Prothono- 

 tary and Cerulean Warblers. Will take some 

 other varieties freshly skinned. I offer eggs in 

 sets for same. J. R. MANN, Arlington Heights, 



Mass. 



A FEW first class Texas birds' eggs to ex- 

 change for birds' eggs or curios of other states. 

 Address ROY WOODWARD Pearsall, Tex. 



EASTMAN folding pocket kodak, S'/s x 3^, 

 mandolin, Elgin gold ladies' watch and maga- 

 zines to exchange for fire arms of any sort, In- 

 dian relics, curios, bird, mammal or snake 

 skins, or anything suitable for decorative pur- 

 poses. STEPHEN VAN RENSSELAER, JR., 

 West Orange. N. J. 



MAGAZINES for exchange: 1 Vol. Antiquar- 

 ian, 1 Vol. Archaeologist, 3 Vols. Museum, 1 

 Vol. Oregon Naturalist, 2 Vols. Oologist, l Vol. 

 N. F. & F. R., and a hundred other natural his- 

 tory papers at your own price for coins, shells 

 or Indian relics. Write at once. WM. CUD- 

 NEY, Gait, Ont , Canada. 



FOR EXCHANGE.— One Bristol steel rod, $3; 

 eggs in sets; one Davie's key. .5th edition, new, 

 12 25 ; complete file Natural Science News, 82 ; 

 twelve back Nos. Osprey, including seven Nos. 

 of Vol. one, $2; Vol. three Museum, $1; twenty 

 Nos. of Oologist, back of 1896, $1; B-flat cornet. 

 $8 ; three-inch T-perches painted white or nat- 

 ural finish, 10c each. Will give 50c per 100 in 

 exchange for any of the following tobacco tags : 

 Star, Good Luck, Hor.-3e Shoe, Master Work- 

 man, Standard Navy, Old Honesty, Drummond 

 Natural Leaf, Sickle Planet,Cross Bow,Brandy 

 Wine, NoDby Spun Roll, Spear Head, Neptune, 

 J. T. Win also give 40c per 100 in cash. E. L. 

 HALEY, Rangeley, Me. 176 



