THE OOLOGIST. 



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of the cacti are branched, but these 

 branches are themselves almost always 

 so high that even if one got into the 

 crotch, he would still have to make a 

 further ascent. 



Of course it has been done and can be 

 done again; Davie speaks of certain col- 

 lectors taking sets of eggs from those 

 cacti, and what I want to know is how 

 they did it. 



If locomotion on a pair of fifteeen foot 

 stilts Avas practicable on the desert 

 sands of Arizona, obviously the prob- 

 lem would be solved to perfection, but 

 unhappily it is not. Now I. want some 

 of those sets this season, and any hints 

 from the readers of this paper would be 

 received with gratitude. 



H. H. D., Phoenix, Ariz. 



You are a Judge. 



You have been selected to act as one 

 of the Judges in this month's Prize 

 article contest, and your decision must 

 be promptly and fairly given. 



Your decision must be mailed us not 

 iater than Feb. 10th. Write on back of 

 a postal card the five articles which you 

 have decided to be the most valuable, 

 instructive unci interesting in this num- 

 ber of Oologist and mad to us. Num- 

 ber the articles in the order which you 

 think the prizes should be awarded. 



We also give our Judges tive special 

 prizes, one to each of the tive whose 

 decisions are nearest the tinaL award of 

 prizes and in this month's competition 

 the Judges whose list of five articles is 

 the nearest the awarded list, we will 

 give a part of Maynard's "Birds of 

 Eastern North America", each of these 

 parts contain in the average, 2 plates 

 and 264 pages strongly bound in heavy 

 manilla covers and at publisher's orig\- 

 nal price are worth at least $5.U0. 



2d A handsomely bound book "Small 

 Talks about Business." 



3d A collection of 20 common eggs. 



4th A collection of 10 good minerals. 



5th A 50 cent pkg. of Novelties. 



To eaek .ludge naming the five prize- 

 winning articles in the exact order and 

 not winning one of the tive special 

 prizes we wilt give a copy of the "Stand- 

 ard catalogue of North America Birds 

 Eggs." 



To each Judge naming the prize- 

 wiuuing articles but not in their exact 



order and not winning one of the 

 five special prizes v\ e will give a copy 

 of that elegant new Columbus or 

 World's Fair Almanac. 

 Address your decision lo 



Frank H. Lattin, 



Albion, N. Y r . 



"Our Birds in Their Haunts." 



My Dear Sir:" 



Please say through the Oologist that 

 the cause of the great detention of my 

 work, the printiug of "Our Birds in 

 Their Haunts," is this: The printers 

 promising to put on it extra hands and 

 work it off in a hurry, ha\e simply 

 worked it off at their leisure. Mean- 

 while they have gained time by 

 telling me' falsehoods, which I have un- 

 wittingly repeated to my subscribers. 

 The work once partly done and largely 

 paid for, it could not well be put into 

 other hands. The printing is now about 

 done, and as the binding is to be done 

 elsewhere, I trust I shall soon have it 

 away. Yours truly. 



J. H. Langille. 

 Pec. 3 '92. Kensington, Md. 



Later. 

 My Dear Friend Lattin: 



After the greatest efforts I have been 

 able to make continously since last May, 

 I finally got the folded sheets of "Our 

 Birds in their Haunts" into the hands 

 of the binder last week. I shall hurry 

 the binder all I can. He is a reliable 

 man. I have positively suffered with 

 anxiety over the maticr. Can you say 

 anything in the next issue of the OcVLO 

 GIST to explain'? 



Yours most truly 

 J. H. Langile, 

 Dec. 22, 1892. Kensington, Md. 



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