THE YOUNG OOLOGIST. 



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DuriDg the months of September and 

 October we will send The Young Oolo- 

 GiST one year and any one of the following 

 woiks, post-free, for only 95 cents : 



Arabian Nights. 



Sketch Book. 



Tom Brown's School Days. 



Don Quixote. 



East Lynne. 



Dickens' (Charles) History of England. 



Robinson Crusoe. 



20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. 



Ivanhoe. 



Willy Reilly. 



Giilliver's Travels and Baron Munchau- 

 sen. 



Swiss Family, Robinson. 



Thaddeus of Warsaw. 



Paul and Virginia Parselas, and Vicar of 

 Waketield. 



Grimms' Popular Tales. 



Tovir of the World in,Eighty Days. 



Ballard's Hand-book of the Agassiz As- 

 sociation. 



All of the above works are handsomely 

 bound in cloth and gold, and, with the ex- 

 ception of the last, contain from three or 

 four hundred to over six hundred pages 

 each. 



F. E. L., Salt Lake City, writes that 

 during a recent trip on Great Salt Lake he 

 collected eggs of the White Pelican and 

 the California Gull. 



J. W., Paw-Paw, Mich., says he has 

 found a Warbling Vireo nest lined with a 

 Sunday school lesson leaf. This speaks 

 well for the morals of Paw-Paw birds, but 

 not so for the boys who are so careless with 

 their Sunday school papers. 



H. A. H.. Berkely, Cal. — This corres- 

 pondent says that in the nest of a Red 

 Shafted Flicker he found three Flicker's 

 eggs. He took two, leaving one. The 

 next day he found three deposited in the 

 same nest. He took them, and going next 

 day found two more. This leads him. to 

 believe that two Flickers sometimes use 

 the same nest. 



The competition for the 1(H) i)rizi's 

 offered for obtaining subscribers by the 

 publisher of The Young Oologist closed 

 August 20th. Every person who sent us 

 only a single subscriber will receive a 

 prize. The ten best prizes will be award- 

 ed as follows : 



1. JohnT. Nientimp, Rochester, N.Y. 



2. H. W.Ha3^ford, North Conway, N.H. 



3. H. W. Davis, North Granville, N.Y. 



4. Geo. W. Tripp, Adrian, Mich. 



5. T. H. Spaulding, Albion, N.Y. 



6. Geo". Phillips, Sterling, Ills. 



7. Ned. K. Swigart, Toledo, O. 



8. C. E. Stowe, Ashburnham, Mass. 



9. A. M. Shields, Los Angeles, Cal. 



10. Charles Cook, Sj^racuse, N.Y. 



The above parties sent us clubs ranging 

 from four to about thirty subscribers each. 



White Pelican. 



Our collector at Minneapolis, from whom 

 we expected to receive a large number of 

 White Pelican eggs, writes us that he has 

 been unable to procure any. He says that 

 Devil's Lake, Dakota, where the birds are 

 usually very plentiful, is this year deserted 

 by them. , Last season eggs were easily ob- 

 tainable, one man getting over a barrel of 

 them. The Pelicans were certainly a beau- 

 tiful feature of the lake. When there last 

 summer I saw a large flock of them, per- 

 haps several thousand. As the steamer 

 neared them the engineer blew the whistle 

 and they all flew. The sky was white with 

 them for a space the length of four hun- 

 dred feet or more at a height of perhaps 

 seventy-five feet. Where the birds have 

 gone is a mystery. 



Our Catalogue. 



Our new catalogue is now partially 

 printed, but we will not again attempt to 

 name any definite time when it will be 

 ready for delivery, but can assure oui' 

 friends who have already purchased a copy 

 that it will be forwarded them as soon as 

 we can get it from the binder. As we gave 

 our printer the copy nearly a month ago, 

 we feel somewhat inclined to "saddle" the 

 cause of the delay upon him. 



