THE OOLOGIST. 



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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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HE POST O c FICE 



CLASS MATTER. 



Prizes for Best Articles- 



We have decided to give our 

 patrons, each month, five prizes. 

 These prizes are to he awarded 

 to the five best articles appearing in the 

 Oologist in which the offers are made. 



For the five articles in this (Apr) Oolo - 

 gist which are the most instructive, 

 valuable and interesting we shall give as 

 follows: 



1st prize — A Part of Maynard's Birds 

 of Eastern North America, bound in 

 boards and leaf her. 



2nd prize — Davie's Key to the Nests 

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



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



4th prize — Hagerup's "Birds of Green- 

 land." 



5th prize — Leverkuhn's ••FremdeEier 

 Im Nest." 



For the April competition we will 

 give a similar set of prizes,and through- 

 out the year the aggregate value of 

 these monthly prizes will not be less 

 than ten dollars. The value of prizes 

 offered this month is $15 00. 



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 JUDGES: Jo?* 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 

 10th of the month following the one on 

 which the Oologist was issued upon 

 which your decision is given. 



Your decision for this month's com- 

 petition must be mailed us not later 

 than May 10th. Write on the back of a 

 postal card the articles which you have 

 decided to be the most valuable, instruc- 

 tive and interesting in this number of 

 Oologist and mail to us. Number the 

 articles in the which you think the 

 prizes should be awarded. 



We have also decided to give our 

 Judges five prizes, one to each of the 

 five whose decisions are- nearest the 

 final award of prizes and in the April 

 competition the Judge whose list of 

 five articles is the nearest the awarded 

 list, we will give a copy of Davie's Key 

 to the Nest and Eggs of N. A. Birds, 

 paper. 2d and 3d each a copy of "Re- 

 cent Indian Wars," elegantly bound in 

 cloth and gilt. 4th and 5th each a set 

 of Noddy. In case of a tie, the earliest 

 mailed list takes the prize. 



Address Frank H. Lattin, 



Albion, N. Y. 



