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THE OOLOGIST. 



and their songs and representation of 

 old time plantation life South will be 

 Worth going a long journey to see. 



There are many other features pecul- 

 iarly Southern that will be shown. 

 The visitors to the Buffalo Exposition 

 this year will have an opportunity of 

 seeing one of the most novel and inter- 

 esting exhibitions ever presented to the 

 public. This arrangement has been 

 brought about principally through the 

 influence of the live Manager of the 

 Buffalo Exposition, Mr. Geo. M. Robin- 

 son, of Elmira, N. Y., Mr. Robinson 

 and a committee visited the Southern 

 Inter-State Exposition last fall at Ral- 

 eigh and placed the advantages of an 

 Exposition of the products of the South 

 at Buffalo before Mr. Patrick and -since 

 then Mr. Robinson has been pressing 

 the matter until it has been finally set- 

 tled that the South is to be represented 

 at the Buffalo Exposition. 



Prizes for Best Articles. 



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 this (Jun.) 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 leather. 



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 July 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: Tom have been seU 

 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 July 20th. Write on the back of a 

 postal card the articles which you have 

 decided to be the most valuable, instruct 

 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 Book relating 

 to Natural History, 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. 



Detroit, Mich., June 17. 



The well known Naturalist and Tax- 

 idermist, Mr. W. H. Collins, of this city 

 died on the 11th inst, of heart disease. 



Mr. Collins will be remembered by 

 the old readers of ornithological publi- 

 cations, to which he contributed a num- 

 ber of interesting articles from 1876 to 

 1884. 



W. A. D. 



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. 

 80 " " " will expire June 1892 

 86 " " " " " Dec. 

 92 " " , June 189a 



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 aa 

 follows: 



"56"— $1.25. "62''— $1.00. "68"— 75c. "74"— 50c. 



Should you desire to discontinue your subscrip- 

 tion to the Oologist your indebtedness to us la 

 25 cents less than the above amounts. The flg - 

 ures.are according to our books June l, 1S92 and 

 renewals sent since that date have been credited 

 on our books, but not on the label. 





