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will that do me?" Simply this that 

 with 5,000 circulation to paid sub- 

 scribers, we would increase our journal 

 to 70 or 80 pages more thoroughly il- 

 lustrate it. and you would get double 

 7uhat you arc getting' now without 

 extra cost. All you will be out will be 

 a 2 cent stamp and 10 minutes time. 

 If yon can get us a club of two to five 

 new subscribers at the reduced price 

 of 50 cents we will pay you cash for so 

 doing. These are not idle boasts 

 but are facts. Here is the se- 

 cret in a nutshell. We could secure 

 enough more cash advertising with a 

 5,000 circulation, to more than war- 

 rant doubling the actual cost of each 

 edition. Large advertisers will not 

 buy space of a paper under 5,000 cir- 

 culation, and some won't patronize 

 under 10,000 circulation. 



With these remarks we leave the 

 matter with you. Can we not hope 

 for you to write us if only on a postal, 

 the names and address of five active 

 naturalists, and also state their spec- 

 ialty. We will file all replies in a 

 separate case and you can rest assured 

 the favor will not be overlooked. To 

 those who will send me frequently lists 

 of names of parties they are personally 

 acquainted with and know to be col- 

 lectors we will give a commission on 

 all we induce to subscribe. We have 

 some correspondents who have sent in 

 from 10 to 30 names, most of which 

 subscribe and we give them a credit 

 card for each subscriber we get 

 through their influence. Let us hear 

 from you at once. 



March 5, Ward's Heron, 2 sets of j, 

 eggs; Mar. 7, Mockingbird, i set of 3;. 

 Mar. 14, 2 sets Black Vulture, 2 each. 



Mr. Chittenden of Mill River, Mass., 

 Mar. 29 writes, "The Pine Grosbeaks 

 have been very numerous here this 

 winter. Can a crow ca7v< while he is 

 flying' I have watched a number and 

 they all stop moving their wings and 

 sail while cawing. A pair of Broad- 

 wings have been flying around here for 

 a week, and as they always return to 

 the same piece of woods a mile away 

 am inclined to think they will nest, 

 there. 



Mr. Van Epps able articles in past 

 two numbers have been of great inter- 

 est to our New York collectors. 

 Won't some of our Ohio, Illinois, Wis-.- 

 consin and other western states write 

 up the Indian mounds, forts, imple- 

 ments &c. of their section. We have 

 lately secured some interesting Indian 

 trappings and relics from Arizona 

 which are listed in our advertising 

 columns. Some notes on the Indians 

 and tribes of Arizona and New Mexico 

 written by parties who have lived near 

 them for some time will be of interest. 



March 24 Mr. Elliot of Tallahasse, 

 Fla. writes, "The collecting season is 

 near at hand. The following has al- 

 ready been taken in this vicinity: 



We would advise all collectors who 

 have any dealings with Wm. B. Car- 

 ilk, 1932 North loth St., Terre Haute, 

 Ind., (but who we believe is now work- 

 ing in Columbus, O.) to get cash first, 

 or if it is a trade, get his goods first. 

 He will try every known scheme to get 

 your material first and do as he pleases 

 about adjusting same. A number of 

 Museum subscribers have written us 

 and sent batches of correspondence, 

 all of which go to prove that he is up 

 to the same tricks he was some years 



