THE NIpIOLOGIST. 



BEST OFFER YET. 



Rare Premiums Given Away for New 

 Subscribers. 



The subscription contest for the rare sets 

 of eggs we are going to give avva}' is not 

 yet closed, as we ha\'e found that more 

 time is needed for fairness all round, there- 

 fore the period for "rustling" is exte ded 

 to the time of going to press of our March 

 number, when the names of the winners 

 of the eggs will be positively published. 



You have as big a chance as anyone to 

 get a good share of these desirable eggs, 

 the list of which will be increased. 



Another Offer. — We have decided, in 

 order to excite wider interest in this con- 

 test, to give TWO BEAUTIFUL EGGS OF THE 



California Murre to everyone sending 

 us 07ie new subscriber. To take advantage 

 of this offer you mu.st yourself be a sub- 

 scriber. 



Remember: 



The Nidiologist is the only first-class 

 illustrated magazine of ornithology in 

 America. It is indorsed in highest terms 

 by the most prominent authorities in orni- 

 tholog}^ and oology, because every issue is 

 valuable and interesting and beautifully 

 ILLUSTRATED. It is easily worth twice 

 over the one dollar subscription price (in- 

 cluding free exchange notice. ) 



To make things interesting 2indi profitable 

 for you we will give away over $40 in rare 

 sets of eggs, etc., as follows : For the 

 largest number of subscribers received, a 

 selection of $ 1 5 worth of eggs ; next largest, 

 $10 worth; third largest, $7 50; fourth 



largest, $2 50; fifth and sixth largest, each 

 $1 cash; seventh and eighth largest, each 

 200 best data blanks; ninth largest, 100 

 data blanks. 



Don't delay, or you will surely regret 

 not being "in it." 



Here are tine Eggs: 



Value per Set 



Audubon's Shearwater, i-i f i 50 



Western Gull, 1-3 75 



Nuttall's Woodpecker, 1-5 5 00 



McGillivray's Warbler, 1-5 7 50 



Cassin's Auklet, i-i i 5° 



Tufte.l Puffin, two sets of one each i 00 



Caracara Eagle, 1-3 3 00 



Shorl-billed Marsh Wren, n-4 3 00 



Pigeon Guillemot, 1-2 i 00 



American White Pelican, 1-2 50 



California Murre, six eggs (variations) i 20 



Man-o'-War Bird, i-i i 00 



Black-crowned Night Heron, 1-4 48 



Night Hawk, 1-2 80 



California Thrasher, 1-3 60 



Costa's Hummingbird, 1-2 i 50 



Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 1-2 i 00 



Black-chinned Hummingbird, 1-2. . i 00 



Red-shouldered Hawk, 1-2. . 70 



American Crow, T-5 25 



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Well authenticated and dated skins of the following Hawks and Owls for the Norwich Museum, 



England. Address to 



0". H. OXJI^l>TE'^, 



THE MUSEUM, NORWICH, ENGLAND. 

 AccipUer fringilloides, Vigors, inhabiting Cuba; Coopet astur ffundlachii, Lawrence, Cuba; Morphrus 

 veniatus, Gurney, Ecuador; Biileo krideri] Hoopes, Texas to Minnesota; Buteo pocilochious, Gurney, 

 Ecuador; Buteo galapaffenois, Gould, Galapagos Island; Lencopteniis princepts, Sil. and Salv, Costa 

 Rica; Leucoptetnts occidenialis, Salv, Loxa, Ecuador; Lencopteniis pluuibea, Salv, Panama; Regerhtnus 

 wilsoni, Cass._. Cuba; Micropa'las gmvsonii, Ridg., Socorro Island; Gtaiicidium glioma hosktnsti, 

 Brewster, Q.a\\{or\\\2i\ Phoieoptynx cuniiiclaria ro trata, (Townsend) California. 



