THE MUSEUM. 



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THE MUSEUM. 



A Monthly Magazine devoted to Ornithology, 



Oology, Mollusca, Echinodermata, 



Mineralogy and Allied 



Sciences. 



Walter F. Webb, Editor and Manager 

 Albion. N. Y. 



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NOTES. 



Subscribers who do not care to avail 

 themselves of the advantages of on. 

 exchange columns can send 50 cents 

 for the Museum one year as formerly, 

 but the Museum with the two coupons 

 is $1 a year. The two coupons to any 

 collector for 50 cents is the best invest- 

 ment he could make. The following 

 is only a fair sample. Mr. Glover M. 

 Allen of Mass. writes us under date. 

 May 8, 1897: -'I recently asked you 

 to insert an ad in the April and May 

 numbers of Museum advertising a 

 camera for sale. The April ad. was 

 enough, and I sold the camera, so 

 please do not insert it in the May num- 

 ber." Its a fact that practically any- 

 thing that is used by collectors can be 

 sold or exchanged through our ex- 

 change columns. Try them. The 

 cost is only one cent a word. 



Game Birds," "Days with our Water- 

 fowl" is preparing a new work entitled 

 "Our Ducks," a history of our various 

 birds both divers and nondivers from 

 egg to maturity, in which he carries 

 one from the south to the extreme 

 north and back, showing their habits 

 and nesting grounds, based on parallel 

 lines, Hights both migratory and local, 

 above and below frost line, full des- 

 cription of all foods, depth of water, 

 and practical ideas for stocking and re- 

 stocking new or old grounds, in lakes, 

 sloughs, swamps or marsh, with charts 

 of nesting and foods; is a new depar- 

 ture in the annals of duck lore, and 

 must prove very interesting not only 

 to clubs owning or controlling grounds, 

 but naturalists and hunters generally. 

 It will be published in book form in 

 August, provided the list of 500 sub- 

 scribers be filled by that time. The 

 Dr. is well known as a sportsman and 

 field naturalist. 



We are in receipt of an advance 

 copy of "The Story of the Farralones" 

 a small pamphlet 5x7 inches, 16 pp. 

 ir is finely illustrated with 27 half-tone 

 engravings, which give a splendid idea 

 iif the difficulties of collecting in the 

 large Bird Rookeries. Tne text is 

 from the pen of C. Barlow and pub- 

 lished by the editor of llw A'idio/og- 

 I'st. Copies may be had by sending 

 50 cents to H. R. Taylor, Alameda, 

 Calif. 



Dr. F. Henry Yooke of Foosland, 

 Ills., author of "Days with our Upland 



INDIAN/^ NOTES. 



11 

 Shells of Fayette County. 



(continued fkom m.^rch number.) 



I must beg the reader's pardon for 

 not listing all the species of land shells 

 in their proper places. Notes for 

 some Patulas, Mcsodon s, etc. , ap- 

 peared in the March issue but I found it 

 necessary to hold over the others until 

 this month. While the list has not 

 appeared in proper running order I 

 hope the notes will be of interest to 

 some of my brother naturalists. 



