We Want 



Members. 



Condensed reports of annual activities of all our Members for publication 

 in the next Journal. 



A typical set of eggs with nest of every species of bird on earth. 



A representative series, with or without nests, of all eggs which vary. 



A small, local normal series (not less than four nor more than six sets) , 

 each taken in a single season, of the following species, and from 

 every locality in America: Red-winged Blackbird, Cowbird, Brew- 

 er Blackbird, Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula and allied forms), Crow, 

 Blue Jay, California Jay, English Sparrow, Vesper Sparrow, Song 

 Sparrow (four sets only), Cliff Swallow, and House Wren. 



Sets containing freak, or "odd" eggs of any sort, whether albinistic, 

 melanistic, erythristic, or cyanic, runts, giants, distortions, ringed 

 or capped, or abnormally spotted varieties, reversions, saturations, 

 or misfits. 



Bird Skins. 



Bird Books. 



Books on Oology in any language. 



Colored plates of birds, the older the better. 



Any illustration of the bird motif in primitive art, whether woven, baked, 

 drawn, painted, carved, or otherwise embodied. 



Photographs of nests or nest-and-eggs in situ, when accompanying orig- 

 inal material. 



Portraits in any medium of Members, or of other "noted Ornithologists. 



Cooperation, Cooperation, Cooperation! 



We do not care for 



Birds' nests (save in rarest instances) when unaccompanied by eggs. 



Photographs, save in illustration of material otherwise available, whether 

 as skins, nests or eggs, or of personal interest, as portraits of Mem- 

 bers, illustrations of museum buildings, cabinets, etc. 



