THE NIDOLOGIST | 
A GREAT PROPOSITION! 
WTIGAG ROLF 
KONA 
SINT LOY 
Tue Nripo.ocist is always ready to meet its friends more than half way on any pian 
to please, and to advance the interests of Ornithology. Three years of unqualified 
support from the best class of bird students warrants us in counting on their hearty 
co-operation in a new piece of enterprise devised for their pleasure. 
The Farallone Islands, the ‘‘Paradise of Oologists,’’ and the greatest Ornitholo- 
gical wonder in America today, have never been fully described or illustrated. 
Farallon Island has been visited by but a hand full among the thousands of collectors who 
have read of the marvelous myriads of the bird tribes which make it their summer breed- 
ing home. We purpose to tell Zhe Story of the Farallones, in an elegant souvenir, with 
artistic cover, to include at least 30 or go Superb IMlustrations, printed on heavy coated 
paper, the finest half-tones that can be made, graphically presenting the picturesque 
features of the Islands, with their countless Gulls, Cormorants, Murres, Puffins, Petrels, 
Pigeon Guillemots, etc., as they are seen in life, accompanied by photographs of their 
nests and eggs. 
One large illustration will be a panoramic view of South Farallon Island showing 
jt complete from Fisherman's Bay and Arch Rock to South Landing, and extending 
to the ‘‘bridge over Jordan’’—a most ingeniously conceived picture from unpublished 
photographs, giving the first complete idea of the wonders of their densely populated 
city of the birds. 
“The Story of the Islands and their bird life’’ will be from the pens ot 
C. Barlow and H. Rh. Taylor 
who have each made three or four expeditions to South Farallon and will describe it from 
a collector’s standpoint, as a bird observatory, and from a historical point of view, giving 
concisely the results of the observations of other Ornithologists and publishing 
MANY NEW AND INTERESTING NOTES 
on the ways of its feathered clans. 
The Illustrations aloue will cost a large sum, and in order to carry the undertaking 
through, we must have an immediate recognition of its worth and importance from every 
reader. ‘To insure some of the expense of the mechanical part alone we ask that you send 
us at once 10 2-cent stamps, or the cash, to pay your part for one copy of the superb 
Souveniy. You then are a partner in the enterprise, and are priviledged to order 
now 2 extra copies at the same rate. The memoir will undoubtedly sell later at least 
fwice or trice this amount, but our main object is to issue it as a gift to our sub- 
scribers, with this small assessment, which alone makes it possible. The illustrations 
alone will be more than would appear zz a full year in most Ornithologicay 
magazines. 
We usually carry out all we undertake, but this is your enterprise, now that 
we leave it in vour hands. Stamp it at once with your approval, and we promise 
you your 20 cents or more, will bring returns in 300 per cent. The minimum price 
(20 cents) subject to conditions, expires wzthin 30 days. Write us at once. 
Respectfully submitted, 
HH. KR. TAYLOR, 
