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THE OOLOGIST. 



'.00 WORTH OF PRIZES 



Will be Piesented during 1893 to 

 The Patrons (Contributors and Readers) of 

 THE 00L06IST. 

 Each month during 1893 we shall 

 give live prizes. These prizes are to 

 * be awarded to the live best articles ap- 

 pearing in each mouth's Oologist. 



The prizes throughout the year will 

 remain the same, except the tirst one 

 which will be the winner's choice from 

 the unawarded articles and publications 

 named in the following list: 

 Coues' ''Key to North American 



Birds" $7 50 



Ridgway's "Manual of North 



American Birds" 7 50 



Chamber Iain's "Nuttal's Ornithol- 



* ogy" (2 vols.) 8 00 



Goss's "Birds of Kansas" 7 50 



Wilson's(aud Bonaparte's) "Amer- 

 ican Ornithology" 7 50 



Maynard's " " Birds of East er nNori h 



America" (text complete). 15 00 

 Washington Irving's Works, 10 



vols 7 50 



Wm. M. Thackeray's Works, 10 



vols 10 00 



Chas. Dickens' Works, 15 vols... 11 25 

 / Jenk's "CoinprehensiveCommen- 

 tary of the Holy Bible " 5 

 large 900 paged Volumes. . 25 00 

 Sir Walter Scott's Works, 12 vols 12 00 

 $10 worth of Phonographic Books 



and Publications 10 00 



An 8-qt. Jack Frost Ice Cream * 



Freezer 6 50 



A Due-Bill good for$31.5/0to wards 

 a new $4(j.50MarlinRepeat-' 



ing Rifle 31 50 



A Due-Rill good jor$33 OOtowards 

 a new$45.00AniericanUuion 

 (same as New Home) Sew- 

 ing Machine 33 00 



A Due Bill good for$12. OOtowards 

 a new $20 double case Odell 



^ Type w rirer 12 00 



'•• '"" Prize each month will be a part 

 ot ''Maynard's Birds of Eastern North 

 America," each containing an average 

 of 8 pi ales and 340 pages strongly 

 bound in strong manilla ami cloth ami 

 worth at publisher's original price not 

 far from $7 50. 



3d Prize — Langille's "Our Birds iu 

 Their Haunts", $3.00 



4th Prize — Brewer's "North American 

 Oology" unbound, no. plates, original 

 price about $3.00. 



5th Prize — Baird's Review of Ameri- 

 can Birds" originally sold at $2.00. 



Each article receiving at least as 

 many credits as there are number of 

 Judges and not winning one of the 

 leading prizes will be awarded the 

 Oologist for 1893 bound iv. cloth and 

 gilt. 



Each article receiving at least one- 

 half as nian\ credits as the number of 

 Judges and not winning any other 

 prize will be awarded a year's subscrip- 

 tion to the Oologist. 



All Mss. prizes are sent by mail or 

 express prepaid, except the first, which 

 is shipped at winner's expense. 



You are a Judge. 



You have been selected to act as one 

 of the Judges in this mouth's Prize 

 article contest, and your de ision must 

 be promptly and fairly given. 



Your decision must be mailed us not 

 later than the 'first of iiex month. 

 Write on back of a postal card the five 

 articles which you have decided to be 

 the most valuable., instructive and inter- 

 esting in this number of Oologist and 

 mail to us. Number the articles in the 

 order which you think the prizes 

 should be awarded. 



We give our Judges five special 

 prizes, one to each of the rive whose 

 decisions are nearest the tinal award of 

 prizes and in this month's competition 

 the Judge 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 an average, of 2 plates 

 and 264 pages, strongly l«>urv<l in heavy 

 manilla covers and at publisher's orig^- 

 iual price are worth at least $5.00. 



2d A handsomely bound book "Small 

 Talk about Business." 



3d A Combination icrosefrpe. 



4th An Agate Watch Charm. 



5th A Pocket Knife. 



To each .Judge naming the five prize- 

 winning articles in theirexact orderand 

 not winning one of the live special 

 prizes we will giveacopy of the "Stand- 

 ard Catalogue of North America Birds 

 Egt^s. " 



To each Judge naming the prize- 

 winning articles but not in theirexact 

 order and not winning one of the five 

 special prizes we will -give a copy of 

 thai elegant new Columbus or World's 

 Fair Almanac, (value 25 cts.). 



All Judges' prizes are sent by mail 

 prepaid. 



Address your decision to 



Fkakk H. Lattin, 



Albion, N. Y, 



