MEMBERS’ PRIVATE SALE AND EXCHANGE COLUMN.



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CHARGE, EACH MONTH, the Editor to be sole judge as to whether such

advertisement can and shall be published or not, priority being given to those who

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WANTS.


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for twelve words or under, and one penny for every additional three words

or less.


Great Aijic’s Egg. —Wanted Coloured Model. State price and original from

which it is taken. Apply to the Editor.


Wanted.—Dresser’s Palcearctic Birds in 2 vols.—Capt. B. Hamilton Scott,

It.F.A., Midland Divisional Ammunition Column, British Army of the Ehine.


FOR SALE.


Ornamental utility Chinese Goslings, March hatched, 1919. Very hand¬

some well-grown birds, in perfect condition. Geese and Ganders from very

large pure-bred parents. The dam laid 50 eggs her first season, 65 oz., and

of delicate flavour. Excellent for cooking. 80s. each. E. Hubert Foster,

Lower Bowden, Pangbourne.


Californian Quails, Diamond, Peaceful, Bronzewing, Necklace, and Senegal

Doves, £2 per pair.—W m. Shore Baily, Boyers House, Westbury, Wilts.

Books. —Five bound volumes of Avicultural Magazine, 1905-9, also unbound

volume, 1910-12, and six months of 1918; good order, perfect; offers

wanted. Forty volumes Buffon’s Natural History, with plates, £2 10s.

Two beautiful complete volumes Cassell’s Book of Birds, £1. Two volumes

Game Birds, two volumes Monkeys, one volume Mammals (Lloyd’s), with

plates, 25s. Beebe’s Our Search for a Wilderness, Turn Bird Lovers in

Mexico, 5s. 6 d. each. Life of P. 11. Gosse, lloiv to Sex Cage Birds (Butler),

Geography of Mammals (Sclater), Fancy Waterfowl (Finn), llambles of an

Australian Naturalist (Ward A Fountain), River Amazon (Bates), 24s. the

lot, or would exchange for good hammerless 12 -bore and accessories or pair

hammer guns by good maker.—F. C. Thorpe, 2 West Street, Dronfield,

near Sheffield.



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