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THL-: OOLOGIST. 



THE OOLOGIST. 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY 



FRANK H. LATTIN, - ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondence and items of interest to the student" 

 of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited from all. 



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Terms of Advertising-, 



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 accepted for sums under one dollar. Make money 

 orders and drafts payable and address all subscrip- 

 tions and communications to, 



FRANK H. LATTIN, 



Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. 



Entered at the Post Office at Albion, N. Y., as sec- 

 ond-class mail matter. 



JOTTINGS. 



January Oologist next week, February 

 issue dnubtless a little late, future issues 

 monthly and on time. 



All subscriptions .sent during the year 

 must commence with the January issue and 

 close with the December one. 



If you sent iu your subscriptions or 

 renewals for the Oologist between August 

 1st and January 1st (that is before you 

 knew it was to be monthly during '88, and 

 fifty cents per year) send twenty-five cents 

 more and we will send the Oologist dur- 

 ing the whole of '88. 



Remember we promise only 16pp. each 

 issue until we have one thousand paid sub- 

 scribers on our books, and then we promise 

 20pp. It will require o\i\j a very "little 

 effort, on the part of our friends to have a 



twenty-paged Oologist. Already nearly 

 four hundred have subscribed for '88. 

 If each of our old subscribers would renew 

 or each of our new ones send us the sub- 

 scriptions of only two of their friends, we 

 would have more than the required number. 



We desire to call particular attention to 

 the advertisement of Messrs. R. B Trouslot 

 & Co., of Valparaiso, Ind., that appears in 

 this Oologist. Mr. Trouslot has long and 

 favorably been known as a collector, and 

 also a publisher of scientific works. Last 

 fall, having determined to become a dealer 

 in natural history specimens and supplies, 

 and finding that "Lattin" could supply 

 his wants better than any other wholesale 

 dealer, he came to Albion on October 28th; 

 before leaving our shop we sold him a 

 stock of birds, eggs, specimens and sup- 

 plies amounting to $3,350.00, the largest 

 sale we ever made a single person at one 

 time. Mr. Trouslot now carries the largest 

 stock of any dealer west of the state of 

 New York, and should any of our friends 

 see fit to patronize him we can assure them 

 that their orders will not only receive 

 prompt and careful attention, but they will 

 also be filled to their entire satisfaction. 

 Mr. Trouslot is no novice at the natui'al 

 history business. He has had many years 

 experience as a collector. The large and 

 fine collection of birds and insects in the 

 college at Valparaiso was furnished by Mr. 

 Trouslot. 



We clip the following from the Hoosier 

 Herald, as it gives a slight idea of the mag- 

 nitude of Mr. Trouslot's stock: 



Eggs from South Africa are a rarity in 

 these parts and scarcely an hour passes but 

 what the curiositj' of the many pas-ing 

 students halts them at Trouslot & Co.'s 

 show windows. Besides the ostrich eggs, 

 the smallest of which is 15i inches iu its 

 least circumference, there are several large 

 black ones which were shipped from dis- 

 tant Australia and are called Emu egu's. 

 These retail, Mr. Trouslot told us, at ?2".50 

 each. We didn't order ver}' many dozens, 

 merely contenting ourselves with looking 

 at them. We were then invited to the 

 " den " where we undoubtedly saw. so far 

 as we know, the largest and finest oological 

 collection in the state of Indiana. It em- 

 braced, besides many rare and peculiar 



