142 THE NIDIOLOGIST. 



1 Hh iNlUKJLUUIb 1 . lection has been gathered logethered with great care. 



.IN JLLUS-J-KATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE I' "s strong in large series of Warblers, Hawks and 



i)EvoTi;u TO THF STUDY OK Owls. Tlic owncrs State that they have made no effort 



ORNITHOLOGY ^'•^ obtain the eggs of the water birds, as it is jnactically 



Willi Speciiil Reference to the impossible to secure a good representation of them. 



NiniKicATiON OK North Amkkican ]>iki)s. 



H. R. TAVI.OR. Editor and Publisher. . 



, '\ Wk have received from Mr. Chas. K. Reed, of 



ISStlKU AT AlAMKDA, CALIFORNIA. 



SuhscriiJiion (ill advance) One Dollar. Worcester, Mass., one of the neatest and most attrac- 



Siiigle *..'opics, is Cents. ,• , , r ■ i . r . ' r 



___! ^ tive catalogues of specnnens and naturalists sii]>plies 



NEW YORK Orr.CE. ROSS TAYLOR. , SO F.FTH AVENUE ^\^^y ^^ J^^^^g j.gg„_ Plice-HstS Of eggS, bllds, shcUs, 



Ori.;inal contributions, with or without illiisirations, arc curiiesiiy globes and aciuaria, and entomologists', taxidermists' 



de.sired. . 



and other naturalists' supplies, are very complete. The 



ADVICRTISIN(; KATES. catalogue is well illustrated, four full-paee half-tones, 



(lernis, Cash with Order.) . , ... 



. paae (outside, .7 inches) Each Insertion, $io oo ^'''^ '"''^"y ''y^""*^^' '^^'"g noticeably gOOd. 1 hese 



I pas^c (inside) " '• 8 oo photograiihs of mounted Ijirds and animals are interest- 



•/4 page (854 inches) " " 400 ' ^ ^ 



Per inch '• •' 1 00 ing, and speak well for the i]uality of Mr. Reed s work. 



Special induccineiits on contracts for over two Mionths. 



Entered at the Alameda Post-office as second class matter. 



' rr ^rrr: Tiiis might lie called our "Scenery number," from 



Ross Taylor, editor of Illustrated Africa, and a tlie ])icturet|ue half-tones with which it happens to be 

 brother of the NlDlOLOClsr's editor, will look after the adorned. We have some beautiful illustrations in pros- 

 interests of this m.agazine at the Eastern end of the line. jiect of birds, nests and eggs. 



His office is at 150 Fifth avenue. New York, where sul> While on this subject of illustrations, few of our 



scriptions or advertisements may be left, extra copies readers, it is fair to assume, realize the great expense 



secured, etc. In general, letters of esi)ecial importance and consequent enterprise involved. With this, No. 9 



should be addressed to the editor, at Alameda, Call- of the Nidiologist, we will have presented to our 



fornia. friends forty-four illustrations, nearly all half-tones, 



fioin rare photographs of birds, nests or eggs. No 



Tiiii NlDIOl.O<;isT re-.ches the best classofornilholo- monthly maga/i"e in America has ever attempted, or 



gists and oologists in America. This fact argues, first, sustained, a j.lan of such magnitude. 



the excellence ol this magazine; second, its superiority 



as a medium of advertising or exchange. "The proof of You like the Nidioloclst, we can tell that by your 



the i)udding" is in the eating thereof. Mr. Walter enthusiastic letters, which please us greatly. But you 



Raine, of Toronto, who placed a page advertisement in j-now not liow much it uill mean tu us \{ you, and each 



our last number, writes us as follows: of you, resolve to help on the cause by securing us one 



■ "Please .stop that advertisement in the Niimoi.ogist, subscriber. To every subsbriber who will go out of his 



as I am nearly sold out of Nortliwest eggs. / //are got .^^y y^ do us this favor we will give space in our ex- 



betlcr returns through that one advertisement than I change column ad lib. during llie Fall, when it is the 



have from all the advertising I have dom in other papers (^^sl,ion to exchange duplicates. Won't you do it? 

 this past tioelve months. V'our monthly eviilently goes 

 to the homes of most of our enthusiastic oologists, judg- 



ing from the letters received, and it escapes the school- ^^'•''''^- Thokni.: Mili.kk has another article in this 



boy with his 50 cents onlers for eggs, and liis three or ""'"''^'" "" ^''^ controversial <p.est.on of Bird I'reserva- 



four letters of in.piiry, previous to making his 50 cents ^'°" ^'- Naturalists. The latly is entitled to the last 



Durclnse " word. As far as we are concerned, we are done. 



The NlDloi.oc.lsT has fallen into the bad habit of 



Wk have to thank J. j'arker Norris, Esq., of I'hil.a- ornithological journals of l)eing behind lime, but the 



delphia, for a recently printed catalogue of iheoological "extra lateness" of tliis number, it is proper to explain, 



collection of himself and son, J. Parker Norris, Jr. Mr. [^ cause.l by a change in printing office. 



Norris says it is his son's collection, and that he only 



placed his own name on it to please him. We refuse to , ),.,, .q,,i^.f „„n.s" are crow.led out of this number, 



believe, however, that Mr. Norris is "growing old," or i,^,, ..m appear, in force, in the next. 



that he will ever lose interest in oology, and .so we are 



gla.l to see Norris and Norris on the catalogue. The J. ^^\ov\k illust rations in March number are line, and it 



Parker Norris collection is a famous and very extensive vv^s these iUust.ations that secured my subscription." 



one, consisting on January 1, 1894, of 573 species, 5, 002 j,^ ^ Schwkek. 



sets and 20,388 eggs — all North American. The col- Denton, Texas, 



