THE OOLOGIST 



Will Exchange personally .aken 

 Florida sets for books. Want the last 

 four volumes of AUK: good books on 

 Butterflies. Moths and Insects; also 

 good work on Southern Botany. Tell 

 me what you have and price and will 

 .''end you list. Oscar B. Baynard, Plant 

 Pity. Florida. 



FOR SALF for Cash — Bulletin Coop- 

 er Club & Condor. Volumes 1 to 6 in- 

 clusive, complete, except No. 6, Vol. 1 

 Oologist. Vol. XT, (1894) complete; Vol. 

 X nS93) complete, except April. July 

 nnd November. W. B. Sampson, 1005 

 North San Joaquin St., Stockton, Cal. 



WANTED — For analvsis, 1 set each 

 337 and 339. Must be absolutely fresh, 

 unblown and very carefully packed and 

 sent special delivery parcel post as 

 soon as taken. Write and make agree- 

 ment now. Will give copy of Bent's 

 Diving Birds to the one who sends me 

 the two sets this spring. Paul G. 

 Howes, 91 Hope St., Stamford, Conn. 

 Cash if preferred to the book. 2-3-4 



FOR EXCHANGE — Rare Sets of 

 Eggs sucli as Dowitcher, Long-billed 

 Dowitcher, Aleutian Tern. Long-bill 

 Curlew, Loon. "U^elches Ptarmingan, 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk, Golden Eagle, and 

 many others. "^''ANT — Male and female 

 skins of Richardson and Black Pigeon 

 Hawks; Harris, Harlans, Zone-tailed, 

 Short-tailed, and Red-bellied Hawks; 

 Peals, Pergerine. and Aplomado Fal- 

 cons; Mallard. W^idgeon. and Rin.g-neck 

 Ducks: Purple Sandpiper: T^^andering 

 Tattler: Buff-crested Sandpiper; Black 

 Oystercatcher; Marbled Godwit; Velvet 

 Scoter; Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 

 K. B. Mathes, Bata^via,_N. Y. 



WANTED— Auk. Vol. 6, No. 1. or en- 

 tire volume. Hoyes Lloyd, 406 Queen 

 St., Ottawa, Canada. 



Postal Permits, Precancelled Stamps 

 and Slogan or Advertising Post Marks 

 for sale or exchange. Correspondence 

 solicited. W. E. Snyder, Beaver Dam, 

 Wisconsin. 



~ WANTED^^Sets~o'f~Noril737.' 60,'ll2, 

 135, 137. 183, 186, 207. 213. 217. 230, 253, 

 261, 264, 276, 301, 305, 309. E. S. Coombs, 

 233 Washington St., Maiden, Mass. 



EXCHANGE PRICE LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS' EGGS 



We have just published this work which it took a Committee of well known 

 Oologists, who were elected by The Oologists of North America for that purpose, 

 nearly two years to complete. It is a Volume of two hundred pages, well Illus- 

 trated, by half tones, showing the advance methods that now obtain in Oology. 

 It contains the following special matter. 



1. An introduction. 2 A history of Birds' Egg Catalogues. 3. A history of 

 this Catalogue. 4. Prices in this Catalogue. What they mean. 5. DirectionB 

 for collecting and preparing eggs. 6. Copy of Standard Data Blank. 7. Illus- 

 trations of proper way to mark eggs. 8. Illustrations showing proper cabinet 

 arrangements of specimens. 9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five on 

 prices. 10. Names botli common and scientific of all North American Birds and 

 Prices adopted for the exchange of specimens of eggs of each. 11. Advertiee- 

 ments. 



Paper bound copies $1.00. Cloth bound copies $2.00. 



R. M. BARNES, LACON, ILLINOIS. 



"NOT MERELY STUFFED," but per- 

 fect in plumage and condition and ac- 

 curately mounted specimens of the fol- 

 lowing: Goshawk. Spruce Grouse, 

 Prairie Chicken, Ruffed Grouse and 

 Mountain Quail. Will exchange for 

 sets. G. A. Abbott, Glasgow, Ky. 



FOR SALE — Natural History Books 

 and Magazines, Antiques, Curios, Min- 

 erals, Insects, Shells and other speci- 

 mens from this locality, or will ex- 

 change for Coins and Stamps. Ralph L. 

 Wh eeler, Canaan. N. H. 



T\^A,NTRTr— Ridgwa>-'s "Birds of 

 North and Middle America," volumes 

 2 and 7, also a Stevens Pocket Shot- 

 gun — 44 calibre preferred. Harold W. 

 Copeland, 122 Park Ave,, Bridgewater, 

 Mass. 



SCOUT MUSEUM 



We have just started a Museum and 

 would appreciate any curios or speci- 

 mens you might have. Send list with 

 price, postpaid. D. C. Bartley, Scout 

 Commissioner, Zillan. T^^ash. 



ALLIGATORS FOR SALE-^CarTfur^ 

 nish them from one foot long up to six 

 feet. Have fresh skins ready for mount- 

 ing: can send them alive, mounted, or 

 skins. .\sk for prices. Also Curios, 

 skins and mounted specimens. Ramon 

 Graham, 3722 Ave J, Ft. Worth. Texas. 



WANTED— By H. H. Johnson, Pltts- 

 fleld Maine: Bird Lore, Vol. XXIIT. 5: 

 Vol. XXTV. all; Journal Maine Ornith 

 Soc, Vol. VI. 4; VII. 1; Nuttall Bulletin, 

 all; Oologist (Utica). all; Ornith. & 

 Oologist rSemi-An.) Vols. I & II, all; 

 Wilson Quarterly, Vol. IV, 1; Biol. Sur- 

 vey Bull., Nos. 6, 27, 34, 35, 37, 39; N. 

 A. Fauna, Nos. 7, 19, 22, 27; Maynard, 

 Birds of Eastern North America; Mc- 

 Ilwaith, Birds of Ontario, 2nd edition; 

 King, EconoiTiic Relations of Wis. 

 Birds. 



W.VNTED — Lepidopters from the 

 W'est and South West, especially Splln- 

 gidae Saturniidae and Papiloes. Wm. 

 Jay, 12 Westview St., Mt. Airy, Phila, 

 Pennsylvania^ 



WANTED — Prismatic Binoculars. C. 

 S. Sharp, Escondido, Cal. Will give 

 sets of 349 or part cash. How about It? 



