The Oologist. 



BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS 



TAXIDERMY 



Vol. XXVIII. No. 2. 



ALBION, N. Y., Feb. 15, 1911. Whole No. 283 



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BIROS 



WANTED.-A few good skins of the Aleu- 

 tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum, 

 Lancaster, Mass, 



WANTED.-A few good skinsot the Dakota 

 Song Sparrow, (Melospiza melodia juddi) 

 THAYER MUSEUM, Lancaster, Mass. 



F()R RALE.— As a whole only, private col- 

 lection of 2250 accurately labeled, well pre- 

 pared, North American Bird Skins. Price 

 $750 delivered, Sfccnrely packed, anywhere in 

 U, S. prepaid. W. E. SNVDRR, Beaver 

 Dam, Wis. 



WANTED.— First class skins of Murrelets, 

 Gulls, Shearwaters, Rails, Shore Birds, 

 Grouse, Hawks, Owls, particularly Snowy 

 and Great Gray, and certain small land birds. 

 Offer representative Southern California 

 species, also fine sets of personally taken 

 Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. 

 All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY 

 I. OSBURN, Pasadena, Calif. 



THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND 

 ENGLISH PARTRIDGES AND PHEAS- 

 ANTS, capercailzies, black game, wild 

 turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc. for stock 

 purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, 

 cranes, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, 

 foxes, squirrels, fe'-refs. and all kinds of 

 birds and aninm Is. WENZ & M ACKENSEN, 

 Dept. H, Pheasant ry & Game Park, Yardley, 

 Pa. 



Send me tendifferent species of small birds 

 from your locality, good skins with full data. 

 Will return equal immber from Illinois and 

 Costa RiC'. All subject to approval. HENRY 

 K. COALE, Highland Park. Illinois. (1) 



EGGS 



In sending in your exchange notices for nests, 

 skins and eggs, we would appreciate it if you would 

 arrange the numerals in your exchange notice 

 in t>>eir nunnerical order, and not tumble them 

 together hit and miss, as some of our readers are 

 complaining, and we think justly so. 



FOR EXCHANGE -First class Eggs in 

 sets. C. S. RUTHERFORD, Revere, Mo. 



Send exchange lists of first class sets for 

 mine,-J. W" PRESTON, 1411 13th Ave.. 

 Spok ane. Wash. 



WANTED.— Good eggs, Indian relics, and 

 Catoeala. I have California butterflies, sea 

 curiosities and stamps. R. E. DODGE. 552 

 Bay street, Santa Cruz, Cal. 



As I expect to go West, will sell cheap, 11 

 cases of fine stuffed birds. A. VV. HANA- 

 FORD, 139 W. Fulton St., Grand Rapids, 

 Mich. (1)_ 



CUBAN SKINS AND LEPIDOPTERY:- 

 WANTED, North American bird skins, 

 isiust be A 1 condition for mounting: also 

 Ornithological Entomological and other pub- 

 lications on general Natural History, 

 especially those dealing with West Indian 

 Fauna and Flora. Will give in exchange, 

 Cuban bird skins or Lepidoptera. Write first 

 advising oferta and disiderata. CHAS. T. 

 R AMSDEN. Box 146. Guantaj^aHTO, Cub^. (i; 



WANTED.-Nearby Tit^d^VtSfi'^^^i^^onW' 

 birds for me in excha/fgeKvm- birds in the 

 flesh. ARTHUR W. P.W^*K\\ W Hndlyme, 

 Conn. 1) 



