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THE SUNNY SOUTH OOLOGIST. 



THE 



Sunny South Oblogist. 



A Monthly Devoted to the Interests 

 of Ornithologists and Oologists. 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY 

 GAINESVILLE, TEXAS. 



We request all of our readers to send us de- 

 scriptions of their collecting trips, or any items 

 of interest relating to birds, their nests or eggs. 



TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 



Single subscription 50 cents per year. 



Foreign countries 65 " " 



Sample copies 5 cents each. 



(No stamps taken for subscription. 



ADVERTISING RATES. 



Single insertions 10 cents per line. 



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51ines $.40 $.75 $1.00 



1 inch 75 1.35 2.00 



1-2 column 2.00 3.50 4.50 



1 column 3.50 5.50 8.00 



Ipage 6.00 10.00 13.00 



Yearly advertisements payable quarterly in 

 advance. 



IB3F*AI1 advertisements must be in by the 18th 

 of each month, to insure insertion in the next 

 issue. 



REFERENCES : 



THE GAINESVILLE NATIONAL BANK, and 

 FIRST NAT'L BANK OF GAINESVILLE. 



Entered at the post-office at Gainesville as 

 second-class matter. 



With pleasure I present to you this month 

 the Sunny South Oologist in an enlarged 

 form; not in size, but in quantity of reading 

 matter. I have added to my magazine four more 

 pages, thus making in all sixteen pages of 

 good reading matter, and four pages of ad- 

 vertisements. For this I will not advance 

 the price; bnt shall continue to receive sub- 

 scriptions at the extreme low price of 50 

 cents per annum. 



Students of Ornithology and Oology wish- 

 ing a reliable guide to the nesting habits of 

 birds, should,— if not already a subscriber 

 —send in their subscriptions at once, as we 

 shall continue to give the same amount of 

 reading matter each month, and will guar- 



antee to give more for the money than any 

 Journal in America. 



Subscribe now, as you will not receive an- 

 other specimen copy. 



Since our last issue we received a letter 

 from a young collector asking if rabbits 

 really laid eggs, and where to look for their 

 nests. 



Many thanks to friends for sending in ar- 

 ticles on Geology; but as this magazine is 

 devoted exclusively to Ornithology and 

 Oology I shall have to refuse them. 



Remember that every subscriber of this 

 magazine is allowed the privilege of insert- 

 ing his exchange or want notice free, thereby 

 making exchanges with every collector in the 

 land. *~ 



Brother editors will please be so kind as to 

 give us due credit for any article copied from 

 the Sunny South Oolochst. We have no- 

 ticed several short articles belonging to us, 

 but minus the credit. 



As the collecting season has now fairly 

 begun, we shall expect to receive notes of 

 your rare finds, collecting trips, etc., and 

 will gladly publish anything sent in by you, 

 relating to birds, their nests or eggs. 



Mr. W. O. Emerson of Haywards, Cal., 

 not being content with finding a Humming 

 bird's nest with eggs on the 22d of February, 

 1885, now comes to the front by reporting 

 the finding of a nest and eggs of this little 

 species on the 19th of January, this year. 



Two beautiful specimens of the Laughing 

 Gull (larus atricilla,) were killed near Gaines- 

 ville, Texas, on the 10th of April; a very rare 

 bird for Cooke county, being over three hun- 

 dred miles from any large body of water. 

 They were killed out of a flock of six in 

 number. 



The Audubon Society (named after the 

 great naturalist), founded in February, 1885, 

 is rapidly increasing its membership in all 



