The OoLOGiST. 



A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. 



VOL. XX. NO. 1. ALBION, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1903. Whole No. 196 

 Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales. 



Brief special announcements, "Wants," "Exclianges" "For Sales," Inserted In this departmart 

 lor 25c per 2,5 words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each adOiucnal 

 word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order. 



Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted in payment at one-third list rates. 



What's Your Number? 



Examine the number following your name 

 on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It 

 denotes when your subscription expired or 

 win expire. 



No. 196 your subscription expires with this issue 

 200 " " '■ " Mar., 1904 



205 " " " " Aug. " 



207 " " " " Oct. " 



210 " " " " Jan, 1905 



300 " " " " Jan, 1909 



Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- 

 mined. If we have you credited wrong we 

 wish to rectify. 



This Nov. Oologist was Is- 

 sued Dec. 1. 



IMPORTANT. 



"Bound Volumes of the Horticulturallst and 

 other books to exchange for Postage Stamps. 

 E. & W. C. BAGG, 434 Genesee St Utica N Y. 



FANCY Pigeons and pet stock for sale or ex- 

 change for A 1 sets or Indi n relics in good 

 condition. ALMON E. KIBBE, Mayville, 

 N. Y. 197. 



WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor- 

 mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon- 

 strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs. 

 Will give cash or good exchange. J. WARREN 

 JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101 



WANTED.— Bulletin of the Michigan Orni- 

 thological Club, Vols. I, II and III. Will give 

 cash or good exchange, The Bulletin. 131 Elm- 

 wood Ave. , Detroit, Mich. 



MARINE SHELLS AND CURTOS.-For only 

 10c I will mail my hansomely illustrated cata- 

 logue and any one of the following Sea Shells: 

 Crown, Tulip, Lightning, Fig. Sun or Angel 

 Wing. J. H. HOLMES, Dunedin, Fla. 



FOR SALE —Minerals, Fossils, Shells Curi- 

 osities, one Vol. Auk V )1. American Ornitho- 

 logy, and many desirable Books and papers 

 list for stamp. GUY BRIGGS, Livermore, 

 Maine. 



BIRDS EGGS:— Singles, Sparrow Hawk 1-1 

 7c Pu m Jay 1-1 40c Columbian Shoit-tailGroue 

 1-1 10c. Pigeon Guillemot 1-1 14c Cassins Auk- 

 let 1-1 30c. Blue-falted Jay 1-1 30c, Iceland Gull 

 1-1 40c, Violet-green Cormeraur 1-1 20c. Send 

 for list of sets. BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephen- 

 town, New York. 



TO EXCHANGE.— 50 numbers "Museum." 

 50 "Oologist " 75 "Recreation." 50 "Wide 

 World," 15 'Osprey," and many others, for 

 Birds or mammals, in flesh or skins. GEO. jF. 

 GUELF, Brockport, N. Y. 



WANTED.— A few sets of Water-thrush, 

 Prothonotary, Pamla, Prairie and Cne>tnut 

 sided Warblers. Those having same send for 

 my list. E. A. DOOLITTLE PamesviUe, Ohio. 

 Box 34 



WANTED,— Position as keeper of menagerie 

 or curator of natural history museum, by the 

 rough naturalist and animal man. Past sea- 

 son with Robinson's show. W. H. SPEAK, 

 Pern, Ind. 



EGGS, SHELLS, BUTTERFLIES, BOOKS 

 AND PERIODICALS TO EXHCHANGE.- 

 Send your lists of what you have and desire in 

 return, and receive my lists. JEROME TROM- 

 BLEY, Box 54 Petersburg Mich. 



I DESIRE to buy or exchange Indian relics, 

 birds and mammals skins, curios, colonial 

 antiques, old fire arms etc. No postals answ- 

 ered. STRPHEN VAN RENSSELAER Jr. 

 West Orange, N . J. 



EXCHANGE NOTICE. -49 1-3 65 1-3 77 1-5 

 190 1-2. 191 1-4 333 1-4, 339 1 3, 337 1-3, 342 1-2, 373 

 1-3. 461 l-'3, 467 1-3, 627 1-3, 624 1-4 619 1-4, 622a 1-5, 

 659 1 2 for Other. W. E. SAUNDERS, London 

 Ont. 



dFOR sale.— Chapman's Hand book, Davies' 

 Nests and Eggs, Knight's, Birds of Maine, 

 and hundreds of books and papers. Nidolog- 

 ists, Ospreys, etc. GUY H. BRIGGS, Liver- 

 more, Maine. 



FLORIDA FERNS -Will send beautiful 

 native Florida Ferns to any address postpaid. 

 Small size 15c two kinds 25c Large size 25c 

 two kinos 40c. D. B. OALINGER, Haines City 

 Polk Co., Fla. 



FOR SALEOREXCHANGE— Some fine sets 

 collected by myself at Lake Winnipegosis in 

 Nortbern Manitoba during last June such as 

 American Red breasted Merjansers, Ring bill- 

 ed gulls. Double Cushed Cormorants, Loon, 

 Holbells, Horned Grebes, Fox Sparrow, Phila- 

 dephia Vireo, Red breasted Nuthatch. North- 

 ern Hairy Woodpecker, and others, with Photo- 

 graph of most of these nests. Send for full list 

 to W. RAINE, Kew Beach, Toronto, Canada. 



