THE OOLOGIST'S ADVERTISER. 



A Montlily Paper devoted to the study 

 of birds, their nests and eggs. 



CHARLES H. PRINCE, 



Editor and Publisher, Danielsonville, Conn. 



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We are in receipt of the "Stormy 

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 you to peruse it. See advertisement on 

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The collecting season is now over, 

 and it is now time to sell or exchange 

 your surplus stock. So send in your 

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We believe that this paper should he 

 in the home of every collecting oologist 

 throughout the United States and Can- 

 ada. In order to increase our number 

 of subscribers we make you the follow- 

 ing offer: To any one who will send a 

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'A BIRD IN THE HAND IS WORTH 

 TWO IN THE BUSH." 



Readers of the Oologist' s Adver- 

 tiser, before criticising us too much 

 you must remember that we are in our 

 infancy— this is only our second num- 

 ber. This paper may be compared to a 

 very late-hatched biiTl. Owing to the 

 fact that the egg had been handled, the 

 parent bird has forsaken the nest, and 

 being anxious to have it hatched it was 

 thought best to use artificial heat. ^ So 

 here we are, small at first, as is usually 

 the case, misightly to some and with 

 mouth always open to receive good 

 food. It will require kind care and at- 

 tention to enable us to withstand the 

 cold and wintry blasts, and we hope no 

 advanced oologist will come, and, find- 

 ing only a young bird in the nest, try 

 to destroy its life. But let him act the 

 j part of the good Samaritan, watch over 

 us, and, dropping in a crumb now and 

 then, give new life to the youthful bird. 

 It will require a hard struggle to get 

 along. But if we can only have the lit- 

 tle scraps of nourishment that we so 

 young require from the hands of those 



who "are used to caring foi such, we 

 will use our feeble efforts to sustain a 

 livelihood so that we may soon be able 

 to become a full-fledged bird, and tak- 

 ino- the wings of the morning, go to the 

 utmost parts of the earth and proclaim 

 oology to a civilized world, so that nat- 

 uralfsts may know more about the 

 winged songsters and the good they 

 i have done by helping lay the foundation 

 !of the monthly Oologist' s Adveb- 



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