xquisite care. Compare this arrangement with the crowded atrocities figured 

 on page 28, each nest characterless in itself, and each jammed into its neighbor 

 as though trying to cover its shrinking bones. And this, forsooth, is called a 

 "Method of Arrangement." 



Well, we are indebted to Brother Barnes for instructive contrasts, and for 

 some other things; and it needs no words of ours to enforce the lesson. Mr. 

 Barnes has the largest private collection of American birds' eggs on earth. He 



admits it. 



A CHALLENGE TO EXCHANGE MEN 



We have, elsewhere, reviewed the Barnes Catalog, and have spoken fa- 

 vorably of the efforts of the Committee of Twenty-five in trying to establish fair 

 prices for the exchange of birds' eggs. Nevertheless, we feel that many, if not 

 most, of the eggs of western species have been under-priced. As evidence of our 

 good faith, we will accept in exchange in practically unlimited quantitiesfthat is, 

 up to the requirements of really adequate series) eggs with nests (or, rarely, eggs 

 alone) of the following Californian species, at the Barnes quotations; and we will 

 guarantee satisfactory material in return: 



Light-footed Rail 



Farallon Rail 



Wilson's Snipe 



Mountain Quail 



Plumed Quail 



Sierra Grouse 



Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse 



Sage Hen 



Band- tailed Pigeon 



Western Goshawk 



Red-bellied Hawk 



Golden Eagle 



Spotted Owl 



Calif. Pygmy Owl 



Calif. Cuckoo 



Cabanis Woodpecker 



Gairdner's Woodpecker 



Black Swift 



Vaux Swift 



White-throated Swift 



Anna Hummer (with choice nest) 



Olive-sided Flycatcher 



Any Steller Jay 



California Jay (choice) 



Santa Cruz Jay 



Western Meadowlark (choice) 



Arizona Hooded Oriole (choice with nest) 



Cal. Pine Grosbeak 



Cal. Purple Finch 



Gray-crowned Rosy Finch 



Pine Siskin 



Belding's Sparrow 



Any Sage Sparrow 



Stephen's Fox Sparrow 



Western Martin 



Gray Vireo 



Dusky Warbler 



Hermit Warbler 



Sage Thrasher 



Slender-billed Nuthatch 



Monterey Hermit Thrush 

 The following species, not Californian, we consider underpriced; and we 

 offer, hereby, for unlimited quantities, double exchange value (i.e., double the 

 rates quoted in the Barnes Catalog) : 



Yellow-billed Loon 

 Bonaparte's Gull 

 Aleutian Tern 

 White-winged Scoter 

 Surf Scoter 

 Pink-footed Goose 

 Cackling Goose 

 Whistling Swan 

 Jabiru 



Franklin's Grouse 

 Attwater's Prairie Chicken 

 Lesser Prairie Chicken 

 Mangrove Cuckoo 

 Maynard's Cuckoo 

 Chuck-will's Widow (choice) 

 Any Poorwill 

 Merrill's Parauque 



Rivoli Hummer 

 Couch's Kingbird 

 San Lucas Flycatcher 

 Florida Jay 

 Green Jay 



Black-throated Sparrow 

 Texas Pyrrhuloxia 

 Grassquit 



Black-whiskered Vireo 

 Yellow-green Vireo 

 Bahama Honey-eater 

 Sennett's Warbler 

 Grinnell's Water Thrush 

 Pileolated Warbler 

 Gray-cheeked Thrush 



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