The Oologist. 



BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS 



TAXIDERMY 



Vol. XXIX. No. 3. 



ALBION, N. Y., Mar. 15, 1912. Whole No. 290 



BRIEF SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 



Wanted, Exchange, l<or Sale, Etc. inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 25 

 words for one issue ; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. 



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 Examine the number on the wrapper of 

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 be notified if you wish it discontiimed and 

 all arrearages must be paid. Ji)o your sub- 

 scription expires with this issue. 293 your 

 subscription expired with December issue 

 1910. Other expirations can be computed by 

 intermediate numbers at the rate of one 

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Entered as second-class matter De- 

 cember 21, 1903, at the post office, at 

 Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- 

 gress of March 3, 1879. 



In answering advertisements in these 

 columns mention "The Oologist," 

 and thereby help us, as well as the ad- 

 vertiser and yourself. 



We will not advertise the skins, nests, eggs, or mounted specimens of North American 

 P.irds for sale. These columns are for the use of those desiring to make bonn fide exchanges 

 of such specimens for scientific collecting purposes only.— EDITOR. 



BIRDS 



WANTED.— Live .Vmerican Wild Swan. 

 One male Trumpeter and one male Whistling. 

 U. M. Barnes. Lacon, 111. 



FOR E.VCHANCtE. -.Mounted birds' skins 

 and eggs in set and singles. Want American 

 and foreign birds' skins. .TESSE T.CRA VEX. 

 811 Roosevelt Ave., Detroit. .Vlich. (*1) 



WANTED.— First class skins of .Murrelets, 

 Gulls. Shearw'aters. Rails, Shore Birds, 

 Grouse, Hawks, Owls, particularly Snowy 

 and Great Gray, and certain small land birds. 

 Offer representative .Southern California 

 species, also tine sets of personally taken 

 Heerraann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. 

 All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREV 

 I. OSBURN. Pasadena. Calif. 



THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND 

 ENGLISH PARTRIDGES AND PHEAS- 

 ANTS, capercailzies, black game, wild 

 turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc. for stock 

 purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, 

 cranes, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, 

 foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of 

 birds and animals. WENZ it .MACKENSEN. 

 Dept. H, Pheasantry iV: Game Park, Yardley, 

 Fa. 



EGGS 



In sending in your exchange notices for nests, 

 skins and eggs, we would appreciate it if you would 

 arrange the numerals in your exchange notice 

 in t*<eir numerical order, and not tumble them 

 together hit and miss, as some of our readers are 

 complaining, and we think justly so. 



Nests witn and without sets wanted. 'lean 

 ise many common varieties; have you any 

 reptile eggs? J. P. BALL. M. I).. Frankford. 

 Philadelphia, Penns. (11-llj 



EGGS FOR EXCH.VNGE.— A few sets each 

 of the following to exchange for other sets: 

 Nos. 49, 120c, 122, 127, 294a. 3tj0a. Send full list. 

 J. S. APPLETO.X. Simi. Ventura Co.. Cal. 



TO EXCHANGE — Sets with data. North 

 American and Foreign. Can use many com- 

 mon kinds of both. Dr. T. W. RICHARDS 

 U. S. Navy, 1911 N. St.. N. W.. Washington 

 D.C. 



D WANTED — A pair of Woodcock skins, pair 

 F'lamingo, Roseate Spoonbill, Scarlet Ibis, 

 all Nuthatches, all .lays, all Owls, all Part- 

 ridge, all Cranes, and all Petrel. Will collect 

 choice northern California material. C. I. 

 CLAY, Eureka. California. (*D 



