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THE OOLOGIST. 



1.00 WORTH OF PRIZES 



Will be Presented during 1893 to 

 The Patrons (Contributors and Readers) of 

 THE OOLOGIST. 

 Each month during 1893 we shall 

 give live prizes. These prizes are to 

 be awarded to the five best articles ap- 

 pearing in each month's Oologist. 



The prizes throughout the year will 

 remain the same, except the first one 

 which will be the winner's choice from 

 the una warded 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 



Chamberlain's ' 'Nuttal's Ornithol- 

 ogy" (2 vols.) 8 00 



Goss's "Birds of Kansas" 7 50 



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

 ican Ornithology' ' 7 50 



Maynard's ■ ' Birds of EasternNorth 



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 "ComprehensiveCommen- 

 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$31.50towards 

 a new $46.50 MarlinRepeat- 



ing Rifle 31 50 



A Due-Bill good for$33.00towards 

 a new$45.00AmericanUnion 

 (same as New Home) Sew- 

 ing Machine -33 00 



A Due-Bill good for$12.00towards 

 a new $20 double case Odell 



Type writer 12 00 



2nd Prize each month will be a part 

 of "Maynard's Birds of Eastern North 

 America," each containing an average 

 of 8 plates and 340 pages strongly 

 bound in strong manilla and cloth and 

 worth at publisher's original price not 

 far from $7.50. 



3d Prize — Langille's "Our Birds in 

 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 ir. cloth and 

 gilt. 



Each article receiving at least one- 

 half as many 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 month's Prize 

 article contest, and your decision must 

 be promptly and fairly given. 



Your decision must be mailed us not 

 later than the first of next month. 

 Write on back of a postal card the five 

 ai'ticles which you have decided to be 

 the most valuable, instructive and inter- 

 esting in this number of Oologist and 

 mail to lis. 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 five whose 

 decisions are nearest the final 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 bound in heavy 

 manilla covers and at publisher's origi- 

 inal price are worth at least $5.00. 



2d A handsomely bound book "Small 

 Talk about Business." 



3d A Combination microscope. 



4th An Agate Watch Charm. 



5th A Pocket Knife. 



To each .Judge naming the five prize- 

 winning articles in their exact orderand 

 not winning one of the five special 

 prizes we will give ao py of the "Stand- 

 ard Catalogue of North America Birds 

 Eggs." 



To each Judge naming the prize- 

 winning articles but not in their exact 

 order and not winning one of the five 

 special prizes we will give a copy of 

 that elegant new Columbus or World's 

 Fair Almanac, (value 25 cts.). 



All Judges' prizes are sent by mail 

 prepaid. 



Address your decision to 



Frank H. Lattin, 

 Albion, N. Y. 



