OOLOGIST'S EXCHANGE. 



OOLOGIST'S EXCHANGE. 



ARTHUR E. PETTIT, 



Chairman. 

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EDITORIAL. 



If it is not asking our friends and sub- 

 scribers too much, we would request that 

 they send Postal Notes instead of stamps 

 for renewing their subscriptions, etc. We 

 can hardly do anything with stamps and 

 we have enough on hand to last us nearly a 

 year. 



The Editor of the Hawkeye O. & O. has 

 recently issued a small book on "Preserva- 

 tive Taxidermy." It is gotten up in a style 

 which is creditable to Mr. Webster. 



We recently got a lot of the self lighting 

 pocket lamps which we advertise on 

 another page. It was our intention to sell 

 them in the ordinary way, but we found 

 that canvassing is very hard work and so 

 we have decided to dispose of them in this 

 way. We offer them at a low price and all 

 that is claimed for them in the advertise- 

 ment is true. 



Owing to the fact that we received so few 

 answers to our Prize Story Offer, we will 

 not distribute the prizes this month but 

 will hold jthem over with the stories re- 

 ceived, until July 30th. We do not care to 

 continue giving prizes out when there is so 

 small response and unless we receive a 

 goodly number of answers to our offer we 

 will discontinue this practice. 



We would like to bear from the following 

 and unless we do hear from them pretty 

 soon we shall stop exchanging with them 

 as we do not care to, continue such a lop- 

 sided arrangement. Naturalist, and Pro- 

 gressive Youth. 



Mr. W. H. Foote has recently advised us 

 that the July number of his Publication is 

 to shortly go to Press and also that it will 

 be one of the finest works on Ornithology 

 and Oology ever issued which statement we 

 do not doubt in the least. We have yet to 

 see any of Mr. Foote's works which are not 

 highly creditable to him. 



The last number of the Ornithologist and 

 Oologist contains an article on the cut rate 

 combination offer of the new A. O. U. 

 Check List and as we are the only ones that 

 we know of who are making a cut rate 

 combination offer, we presume the article 

 in question is intended for us. We would 

 most respectfully advise that paper that we 

 pay more money for each cojjy of the A. O. 

 U. Check List, Abridged Edition, 1889, 

 than it does and that the reason we can 

 offer it at a "cut rate combination " is be- 

 cause we are satisfied with two or three per 

 cent, profit instead of 20 or 25 per cent, 

 profit on our goods. Any person so desir- 

 ing, can verify the statement, that we pay 

 more for each copy of that list than the 

 Publishers of the O. and O. by addressing 

 a letter to the Agent of the Union, 35 Pine 

 St., N. Y. We do not intend this article 

 for Mr. F. B. Webster for whom we have 

 the highest personal regard, but for the 

 low, despicable, narrow minded wretch 

 who wrote the article. 



We would advise our friends to take ad- 

 vantage of this Check List offer as the list 

 cannot be obtained elsewhere at such fav- 

 orable rates. 



The Collector's Exchange hails from 

 Elkhorn, Wis. and while it is not devoted 

 exclusively to the feathered tribe it is a 

 very interesting little paper. We can also 

 mention "The Loon" as being another 

 lively little paper. Bro. Surber is an ex- 

 cellent writer and we would like to have 

 him on our Editorial Staff but suppose that 

 is impossible. 



Wrinkles for Birdskinners. 



Equal parts by measure of fine white 

 sand and fullers earth makes a good ab- 

 sorbent for blood. Carry this mixture 

 in a small salt holder, one of the pepper 

 pot style and use it freely in the field on 

 blood besprinkled plumages. 



A stout copper wire five inches in 

 length flattened at one end and pointed 

 at the other helps off the skin finely 

 from small birds. 



Black indelible ink such as is used for 

 clothing is the proper thing for all your 

 rubber stamp records. Other kinds 

 fade out. 



Yellow coarse-grained corn meal, with 

 a dash of plaster of paris in it, is good 

 to use liberally when skinning birds, 

 especially fat ones. It absorbs the fluids 

 well. 



Surgical needles are now made to 

 thread from the top. Use them and 

 bless the inventor. 



L. S. F. 



