THE OOLOGIST 



"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. Abb o tt, G lasgow, Ky. 



FOR SALE — Natural History ^ooks 

 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. 

 Wheeler. Canaan. N. H. 



FOR SALE — Two large upright cab- 

 inets of .^2 drawers eacli, one of ori- 

 ental oak, and one of hard pine. Also 

 my entire Natural History Collection 

 of Thousands of Specimens. A good 

 chance for a Museum. Address Dr. 

 W. S. Strode. Laguna Beach, Califor- 

 ni a. Orange Co. 



FOR EXCHANGE— I have for ejT 

 change, for skins desired by me a 

 number of Snowy Owl Skins, in all 

 grades of plumage ranging from al- 

 most pure white males to the darkest 

 colored summer females. If you can 

 use tlie-e send me your list of dupli- 

 cates. R. M. Barnese. 



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 

 send you list. Oscar E. Baynard, Plant 

 City. Florida. 



FOR SALE for Cash — Bulletin Coop- 

 er Club & Condor, "Volumes 1 to 6 in- 

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

 Oologist. Vol. XI. (1894) complete; Vol. 

 X (1893) complete, except April, July 

 and November. W. B. Sampson, 1005 

 North San Joaquin St., St ockt on, Cal. 



WANTED — To" exchange bird and 

 mammal skins for bird and fish books. 

 Richardson's Fauna Borealis. and 

 Bent's Diving Birds especially desired. 

 Walter Koelz. Department of Zoology, 

 University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan. 



FOR~ EXCHANGE — Rare Sets of 

 Eggs such as Dowitcher, Long-billed 

 Dowitcher, Aleutian Tern, Long-bill 

 Curlew, Loon, "^''elches Ptarmingan, 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk, Golden Eagle, and 

 many others. WANT — 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, Widgeon, and Ring-neck 

 Ducks; Purple Sandpiper; Wandering 

 Tattler; Buff-crested Sandpiper; Black 

 Oystercatcher ; Marl^led Godwit; Velvet 

 Scoter; Yellow-crowned Night Heron. 

 K. B. Math es, Batavia. N. Y. 



TO EXCHANGE — Sets from New 

 Zealand: Dove Petrel. Black Swan. 

 Mutton Bird. Black Backed Gull. White 

 Fronted Tern, Red Billed Gull. Gannet, 

 Caspian Tern. From Australia: White 

 Faced Storm Petrel, Sooty Tern. Silver 

 Gull. Pelican, Coot, Little Blue Pen- 

 quin. From Ireland: Moon Hen. Coot, 

 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe. 

 Razor Bill. Puffin, Guillemont. All 

 collected by self. To exchange for 

 good sets, witli proper data. L. L. 

 Redick. Newington, Connecticut. 



WANTED— Sets of No. 11. 37, 60, 112, 

 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 illas- 

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

 It contain<5 the following special matter. 



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

 this Cata'ocup. 4. Prices in this Catalogue. What they mean. 5. Directions 

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

 trntions of prn-^pr way to mark eggs. 8. Illustra-tions showing proper cabinet 

 arrang'^^n'pntr. of srecimens. 9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five on 

 pri'^es. If). Nances both common and scientific of all North American Birds and 

 Prices ndoptrd for the exchange of specimens of eggs of each 11. Advertle^ 

 ir.pnts. 



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



R. M. BARNES, LACON, ILLINOIS. 



EXCHANGE — National Geographic 

 Magazines for Bird Magazines, also 

 will take sets. Send want list. J. Earl 

 Harlow, Texico, Illinois. _ 



WANTED— By H. H. Johnson, Pltts- 

 fleld Maine: Bird Lore, Vol. XXIII, 5; 

 Vol. XXIV. all; Journal Maine Ornlth. 

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

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

 Oologist fSemi-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, Economic Relations of Wis. 

 Birds. 



WANTED — Lepidopters from ^the 

 "^''est and South West, especially Splln- 

 gidae Saturniidae and Papiloes. Wm. 

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

 Pennsylvania. 



WANTED — Prismatic Binoculars. CT 

 S. Sharp, Escondido, Cal. Will grlve 

 sets of 349 or part cash. How about It? 



