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THE OOLOGIST. 



NOTICE. 



MINERALS 



IhavH just published a pamphlet on "The 

 Scientific Preparation of Bird Eggs" treating 

 fully on the subject from the nest to your cab- 

 inet drawer and giving packing directions for 

 mail purposes in selling or exchanging. 



It is not for sale on any terms but will be 

 Siven away, postpaid, to everyone sending 

 me the money for any instrument, outfit or 

 book for oologists or ornithologists, priced in 

 my July, 1895 Bulletin or in this number of 

 OOLOGiST at $1 or over. 



Tlie Special Outfit offered elsewhere 

 in this magazine at $2.95 is the hest bargain 

 ever offered for the money and with this new 

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H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, 

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Capturing a Live Baby Condor. 



READ ABOUT IT IN THE 



Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club. 



This live Club now prints its own proceedings and all the interesting events 

 in Ornithology from California and the Pacific Coast appear in its columns. The 

 March number, consisting of 20 pages of breezy articles is out. In it you should 

 read about "Audubon's Hermit Thrush in the Sierra Nevada 

 Mountains," by Lyman Belding; "Summer "Warblers of Arizona;" 

 "The Rhinoceros Auklet at Catalina Island; "The Water Ouzel 

 on Pescadero Creek;" besides a long list of other valuable and entertaining 

 papers, Mr. R. C. McGregor describes two new birds from California in the March 

 number. 



The Jannarv number contained the first definite data on the nesting of the 

 Fulvnns Tree Dmtk and the vSanta Cruz Jay .\lso a biographical sketch of Dr. 

 Jas. G. Cooper with portrait. You will be cut nff from the West unless you read 

 the Bulletin. 



$1.00 per ynar. Sample copv 20 cents. Address orders for sample copy to 

 the Editor, C" BARLOW, Santa Clara. Cal. Subscriptions to D. A. COHEN. Bus- 

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