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THE OOLOGIST. 



^THE NAUTILUS^ 



For Conchologists. (Formerly the Conch- 



ologists' Exchange.) 

 Improved, -i- Enlarged, -i- Illustrated. 

 Issued Monthly. Subscription, *! per year. 



H. A. PILSBEY, EDITOR. 



Address WM.D AVERELI., 



Manager, Mt. Airy, 



Philadelphia Penna. 



fooJ EnpYii 



— FOB — 



NATUEALISTS 



AND OTHEKS. 



GOOD WORK, 



LOWEST PIITCES. 



Gorrespondence Solicited 



H. A. CARHART, 

 d yr Syracuse, N. Y. 



JUST PUBLISHED.' 



THIRD EDITION 



Davie's Eests aM E 



North a«viericaN birds, 



Re-Written and Greatly Enlarged, with an 



Introduction by J. Parker Norris, and Full 



Page Illustrations of Nests, etc. by 



Theodore Jasper, A. M., M. D., 



a^id W. Otto Emerson. 



THIS work is descriptive of tlie Nests aM Eggs 

 Of the Land and Water Birds of North America, 

 ■which includes aP. che species known to exist— 

 those that occiix or are indigenous north or the 

 Sourhern United States boundary, including 

 Greenland and the peninsula of Lower California. 



The toreeding range of each species is given, 

 the time of nesting, the exact number of eggs 

 laid, their color and size together with the chiei 

 characteristics of the birds. 



The arrangement of the work is according to 

 the new nomenclature of the A. O. U. Code and 

 Check List, and the old numbers (Ridgeway s), 

 as used in former editions, are placed to the 

 right of each species. Throughout the text all 

 the common names of the birds are to be found, 

 and a complete analytical index of these is 



^Tn "invaluable book as an aid for the identifi- 

 cation of specimens to all those collecting m the 



The work consists of 475 pages and 13 full page 

 Ulustratlous. 



Paper Edition, Si. 25; Cloth, Si.75- 



FRANK H. I^ATTIl^'. 



Sole Wholcifile Aj-eut, 

 Orleans CO. A Won, N. Y. 



THE 

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CONTAINS 



86 Pages of Valualsle Information. 



It gives our regular price list of oological specimens 

 and supplies (th '. most complete ever sent out by any 

 dealer). It .ap.vis "."ne common and scientific names of 

 all North Arri^.ican birds, arranged and numbered 

 accordjr»g to Kidgeway > (the Smithsonian) nomencla- 

 ture of 1881 ; it gives the numbers used in Baird's. 

 check-list of 1859 and those used in Coue's of 1883 ; 

 it gives the value of the eggs of over 500 species of 

 North American birds, this fact alone making lh4 

 catalogue invaluable to collectors as a basis of ex" 

 change. It names the various families into which the 

 birds of North America are divided, and enumerates 

 the birds belonging to each family. It gives, approx- 

 imately, the number of eggs in a clutch of every 

 American bird. It tells how to prepare specimens for 

 cabinet, how to pack them fc" transnortation, with 

 inai'.y other useful hints. 



Price post paid 15 cents. 



ADDRESS 



Publisher of the OOLOGIST, 



ALBION, NEW YORK. 



% * This Handbook was published in 1885. but 

 ii i^ now more than worth the nominal price 



Coins, Stamps, Curio. 



Large, well illustrated 48 page book, 5c. 



W. F. Greany, 



2" Brannan St., - San Francisco, Cal. 



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AH EXPLAHATIOIT. 



In the Jaai. issue of The Oologist 

 this cut apxjeared to "till up"; — 



UnSni^' rlvSq^ '^""'•"■'^'■Pl'li". Lct£i:>i stock. Lowut PrUcn. Sad 

 lleaS^A.InwlVlW. "for ocwilU. Lists. FKAMK H. LATTU^I, AiblQO. H. «/ 



We have a new large illustrated cat- 

 alogue in press, it Avill be i'ead.y to mail 

 about March 15th. Our patrons need 

 not write for a copy as we shall send 

 them one as soon as issued, until that 

 time our prices for everything exce^Jt 

 eggs remain as advertised in the Sept. 

 '88 Bulletin. The prices for Eggs are 

 as listed in Nov. '8y Oologist or as 

 printed on our new "Oologist's. 

 Checking Lists". 



Faithfully, 



Fkank H. Lattin. 



