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Birds ana flii nature Pictures for K 50 GBDts. 



\VT AN Y of our subscribers have found the ' 'Birds, " and ' 'Birds and 

 "^i *" All Nature" colored pictures very useful in decorating their 

 schoolrooms, so we have decided to send an extra set of pictures to 

 subscribers to the magazine at 50 cents a year — $2.00 for a year's sub- 

 scription and a set of pictures each month. The pictures, when not sent 

 to subscribers, will cost $1.00 per year. We can still supply pictures 

 for 1897 and 1898 at $1.00 for each year, or 10 cents per month. 



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ACT D A I I r^ I ^^los. C. Howard, 5r., Thos. W. Cowley, Sr. 

 ■ Pi r\ kJLJ I Thos. C. Ridgley, Thos. C. Ridgway. 



For some time this man has been represeuting- himself as our agent and collecting- money. 

 He usually signs a receipt as though he were connected with the Smithsonian Institute, 

 Washington, D. C. Following is the description generally given by people whom he defrauds: 



" He is about six feet in height, strongly built, has a heavy head of auburn hair (possibly a 

 wig), wears a heavy beard and mustache partly gray, is quite shabbily dressed, and has two 

 fingers of the right hand taken off at the knuckles. He may be between sixty or sixty-five 

 years old, and professes to be a very honest, good Quaker and uses the pronouns ' thee ' and 

 'thou' constantly. He carries with him a collection of colored pictures of birds, animals and 

 flowers, insects, etc.; also a few copies of Birds magazine, and says they are from Miss 

 Willard, the great writer on nature." 



He is in noway connected with "Birds and All Nature," and we will pay a liberal 

 reward for his arrest and conviction. 



A. W. MUMFORD, 203 Michigan Ave., Chicago. 



PRAISE FOR BIRDS AND ALL NATURE. 



"Please bind into two volumes, cloth, the 24 copies of Birds which I express to you to- 

 day. Inform me as to your price as advertised, and it will be promptly paid. Success to 

 you and Birds and Ai,i, Nature. Have found Birds a source of good cheer, inspiration 

 and helpfulness. Birds and A1.1, Nature occupies a unique field among magazines, and 

 is therefore sure to meet with marvelous circulation." 



REV. STEPHEN A. NORTHROP. 



Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 4, i8gg. 



"I am so much delighted with the volume of your magazine that I want Vols. 3 and 4, 

 and also want to subscribe for the current year." H. W. CRANE. 



Bloomfield, N. J., Feb. j, /<Sp(p, 



"Your Birds and Ahh Nature magazine is such a perfect little gem of a publication 

 that I must have the four bound volumes of back numbers, so enclose herewith five dollars 

 in New York exchange, for which please mail me the books and oblige." 



D. E. DOBBINS. 



Boulder, Col., Feb. //, 1899. 



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