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THE OOLOGIST. 



Davie's Nests and Eggs improved pocket cun 



OF or Snip Snap. 



rJOF^TH AMERICAN BIRDS, 



Re-Written and Greatly Enlarged, with an 



Introduction by J. Parker Norris, and Full 



Page Illustrations of Nests, etc. by 



Theodore Jasper, A. M., M. D.. 



and ^V. Otto Emerson. 



This work Is descriptive of the Nests and Eegs 

 of the Land and Wafer Birds of North America, 

 which Includes all the species known to exist— 

 those that occur or are indigenous north of the 

 Southern United States boundary. Including 

 Greenland and the peninsula of Lower California. 



The breeding range of each species Is given, 

 the time of nesting, the exact number of eggs 

 laid, their color and size together with the chief 

 characteristics of the birds. 



The arrangement of the work Is according to 

 the new nomenclature of the A. O. U. Code and 

 Check List, and the old numbers (Rldgeway's), 

 as used in former editions, are placed to the 

 right of each species. Throughout the text all 

 the common names of the birds are to be found, 

 and a complete analytical index of these Is 

 given. 



An Invaluable book as an aid for the Identifi- 

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 field. 



The work consists of 475 pages and 13 full page 

 Qlustratlons. 



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CONTAINS 



86 Pages of Valualsle Information. 



It gives our regular price list of oological specimens 

 and supplies (th •, most complete ever sent out by any 

 dealer). It givis -.he common and scientific names of 

 all North /Vrrie.ican birds, arranged and numbered 

 accordir.g to Ridgeway s (the Smithsonian) nomencla- 

 ture of 1881 ; it gives the numbers used in Baird's 

 check-list of 1859 and those used in Coue's of 1883^ 

 it gives the value of the eggs of over 500 species of 

 North American birds, this fact alone making thj 

 catalogue invaluable to collectors as a basis of ex- 

 change. It names the various families into which the 

 birds of North America are divided, and enumerates 

 •he birds belonging to each family. It gives, approx- 

 unately, the number of eggs in a clutch of every 

 American bird. It tells how to prepare specimens for 

 cabinet, how to pack them for transportation, with 

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