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THE OOLOGIST. 



THE OOLOGIST 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 

 Editor and Publisher. 



Correspondence and items of interest to the 

 student of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited 

 from all. 



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Complete Index of Vol VIII Avill be 

 printed in Feb. Oologist. 



February Oologist. promises to be 

 the most valuable number ever pub- 

 lished. 



Prizes for Best Articles - 



During the past our readers have 

 gratuitously supplied us with more 

 MSS. than we could possibly use. For 

 this we feel very grateful and would 

 gladly have given them pecuniary com- 

 pensation were it not willed that pub- 

 lishers of Natural History papers must 

 do otherwise in order to amass an enor- 

 mous fortune, or we might add (joking- 

 ly of course) to meet our printer's bills. 



Publishers of defunct publications, 

 who are now, in their retirement squan- 

 dering a few of these "amassed for- 

 tunes" can appreciate the tenderness of 

 which we speak of "printer's bills." 



Well, to resume — we have decided to 

 give our patrons, each month, five 

 prizes. These prizes are to be awarded 

 to the five best articles appearing in the 

 Oologist in which the offers are made. 



For the five articles in th$s Oologist 

 which are the most instructive, valu- 

 able and interesting we shall give as 

 follows: 



1st prize — A Part of Maynard's Birds 

 of Eastern North America, bound in 

 boards and leather. 



2nd prize— Davie's Key to the Nests 

 and Eggs of N. A. Birds, in flex, cloth. 



3d prize— Same as 2d prize, in paper. 



4th and 5th — Each a set with data of 

 the Noddy. 



For the February competion we will 

 give the same set of prizes, and through- 

 out the year the aggregate value of 

 these monthly prizes will not be less 

 than ten dollars. 



The articles entering into competition 

 must contain at least one hundred 

 words and we prefer that they do not 

 exceed seven hundred words, unless 

 they fairly teem with very, very inter- 

 esting facts or happenings — Remember 

 that "fancies," ' rehashes," "sparrow 

 stories" and articles of a similar nature 

 are not solicited and will rarely be 

 found "available." 



The Xmas presents as promised in 

 December Oologist were mailed to 

 nearly two hundred of our patrons on 

 Jan. 11th. 



THE JUDGES: You have been sel- 

 ected to act as one of the Judges in 

 these Prize article contests, and your 

 decision must be promptly and fairly 

 given, and in no case later than the 

 15th of the month following the one on 

 which the Oologist was issued upon 

 which your decision is given, for exam- 

 ple your decision for this months com- 

 petition must be mailed us not later 

 than Feb. 15th. Write on the back of a 

 postal card the articles which you have 



