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needed is large. Please extend the time 

 to March 1, 1892. 



I enclose a few out of the many com- 

 mendations 1 have received from all 

 over the country, as to my hook. If 

 you could give place to a few of them it 

 might help my present edition. Make 

 your selection. Do not fail to call at- 

 tention to the extension of time, and 

 that the price of the work afterward 

 will be $2.50." 



Our readers should remember that 

 according to offer made in November 

 Oologist advance subscriptions will se- 

 cure a copy of the new edition for $1.60 

 — no money required until the work is 

 published, and from the above you will 

 note that our Friend Langille has deem- 

 ed it advisable to extend this time to 

 March 1st. These advance subscript- 

 ions are required not for profit, but as a 

 guarantee of the actual cost of publica- 

 tion, his profits on these advance sub- 

 scriptions will consist chiefly of a com- 

 modity without monetary value, viz: — 



^e became personally acquainted 

 with Mr. Langille over ten years ago, 

 when a resident of our county, he was 

 then and always has been a firm friend 

 of every young naturalist, and seems to 

 delight in their companionship, un- 

 doubtedly this trait in his character in 

 no small measure accounts for the pop- 

 ularity of his work, and will give the 

 readers of the Oologist a special im- 

 petus in order that the new edition will 

 not be unnecessarialy delayed for want 

 of the required number of advance sub- 

 scribers. 



Through Mr.Langille's valued articles 

 which have appeared from time to time 

 in the Oologist, our readers can form 

 a slight opinion as to the value of his 

 book. 



Below we give a few quotations select- 

 ed from the many commendations re- 

 ceived from the first edition. 



"More than two years ago I first saw your 

 work, "Our Birds in their Haunts," at the Pratt 

 Library, Baltimore; and was delighted to find a 

 book whch answered the purpose of the young 

 beginner so admirably, and determined to own 

 a, copy as soon as possible, which desire was 

 gratified soon after. Since then I have read it 

 straight through any number of times, each 

 time with equal or increased interest, and have 

 also used it constantly as a reference. Not 

 •only do I find it invaluable as a guide, especial- 

 ly to the habits, for which I think it is the best 

 general work short of Audubon's; but' bound- 

 less is the pleasure I have received from it as a 

 literary work. I read it, and find such sym- 

 pathy with my own feelings toward nature, 

 that I have ever been drawn toward its author 

 as a personal friend." 



GEO. H. GRAY, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



"I have your excellent work. "Our Birds in 

 Their Haunts," and value it greatly. It is one 

 of the few works of its kind of my acquaintance 

 that one not a student of birds could read with 

 interest and pleasure. I have often taken it 

 and re-read page after page with renewed in- 

 terest, and wished from the bottom of my heart 

 that I might know the author personally, and 

 might go with him to some of the localities so 

 well described, to study the birds under his di- 

 rection and inspiration. 



F. W. McCORMACK, 

 Editor of the Leighton News. 



"If I had a child old enough to read, "Our 

 Birds in Their Haunts," would be the first book 

 I should place in his hands." 



E. B. WEBSTER, 

 Publisher of the Cresco Republican, Cresco, la, 



"The copy of "Our Birds in Their Haunts" 

 you sent me some days since, was duly receiv- 

 ed and has been examined with pleasure and 

 deep interest. Considered as a popular work 

 its plan seems to have been happily conceived 

 while each page bears evidence of the writer's 

 intense love of nature and his ability not only 

 observe intelligently, but to express felicitous- 

 ly the aspects of nature and the varied traits 

 of bird-life that under review. It is evidently 

 the work of not only an enthusiastic bird-lover 

 and field naturalist, but of a writer who is fully 

 competent for the pleasant task he has under- 

 taken. As a popular exposition of the life-his- 

 tories of the birds of Eastern North America, 

 "Our Birds in Their Haunts" will doubtless, 

 meet with the cordial welcome it so well de- 

 serves ; while its freshness and originality make 

 the work a valuable contribution to the litera- 

 ture of North American ornithology." 



J. A. ALLEN, 



President of the Ornithologist Union, and 

 Editor of the Auk. 



A Correction. 



Please correct a slight mistake in 

 November Oologist in my list of birds 

 No. 305 Prairie Hen reads "not so abun- 

 dant as Bonasa umbellus, " but it should 

 be "not so abundant as Colinus virgin- 

 ianus." 



W. E. Loucks, 

 Peoria, Ills. 



Examine the little rose-colored address label 

 on the wrapper of the Oologist, The number 

 following name denotes the time when your sub- 

 scription expires or has expired. 

 56 signifies your subscription expired June 1890, 

 62 " " " •• Dec. " 



68 " " ■■ " June 1891 



74 " " " " Dec. 



8i) " " " will expire June 1892 



86 " " " " " Dec. 



92 " " " " " June 1893 



We are desirous of straightening our subscrip- 

 tion books at once and trust our subscribers will 

 send in their subscriptions for '92 including all 

 arrearages, at their earliest conveniences, the 

 amounts necessary to accomplish this are as 

 follows: 



"56"— $1.25. "62"— $1.00. "68"— T5C '"74"— 50c. 



Should you desire to discontinue your subscrip- 

 tion to the Oologist your indebtedness to us is 

 45 cents less than the above amounts. The flg - 

 ures are according to our books Jan. 10, 1892 and 

 renewals sent since that date have been credited 

 on our books, but uot on the label. 



