The Oologist. 



BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS 



TAXIDERMY 



Vol. XXIX. No. 5. 



ALBION, N. Y., May. 15, 1912. 



Whole No. 298 



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BIRDS 



WANTED. -Live American Wild Swan. 

 One male Trumpeter and one male Whi st ling. 

 R. M. Barnes. Lacon, 111. 



WANTED.- First class skins of 7(i2, 7-15. 

 7.39, 737, 715. (J82, 6H9, t)(i6. mi. 651. and many 

 others. Collectors kindly send lists. Also 

 for my list of duplicates. C. \V. CHAMBER- 

 LAIN. 3ti Lincoln .^t.. Boston. Mass. (*2) 



WANTED.— First class skins of Murrelets- 

 Gulls, Shearwaters, Rails, Shore BirdS' 

 Grouse, Hawks, Owls, particularly Snowy 

 and Great Gray, and certain small land birds. 

 Offer representative Southern California 

 species, also fine sets of personally taken 

 Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. 

 All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY 

 I. OSBURN, Pasadena. Calif. 



THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND 

 ENGLISH PARTRIDGES AND l'Hl•.A^- 

 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 & MACKENSEN, 

 Dept. H. Pheasantry & Game Park. Yardle^. 

 Pa. 



WANTED.— A Jman who loves birds and 

 mammals, out door life, etc., to join me in 

 creating the largest game farm on the East 

 Coast. Have already, land, some stock 

 equipment, experience. H. H. BAILEY, 

 Newport News. Va. ■ (1) 



FOR EXCHAN<iE:-Many kinds of bird 

 skins and eggs, also four young Great Horned 

 Owls and two young Ited Foxes. DR. W. S. 

 STRODE. Lewistown. Ills. (*1) 



RIDGEWAYS MANUAL FOR SALE.- 

 Pub. 1887. Good as new. Wanted, the fellow- 

 ing skins. Barrows Golden Eye, Cinnamon 

 Teai, Pa-.ific Eider. >[asked Duck. ALBERT 

 LA NO. Excelsior. Minn. (,*1) 



TO EXCHANGE— Squirrel skins, fox. grey, 

 red. Also Weasel. Muskrat and bird skins. 

 Desire bird skins. Mounted birds and books 

 on bird-:. O. M. GREENWOOD. Manchester, 

 Iowa. 840 E. Main St. (*D 



WANTED.— Wild ducks, geese, quail, eggs, 

 fresh for setting, or live birds, ringtail, bob- 

 cats, squirrels, foxes, eagles, big snakes, alive 

 or mountable skins, Indian relics, pistols, 

 shells, minerals, fossils, mounted specimens 

 of birds, mammals in meat, offer fine line 

 of curios, stamps, minerals, fossils, shells or 

 cash. DEAN'S NATURAL SCIENCE ES- 

 TABLISHMENT, Alliance, Ohio. (*1) 



