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THE OOLOOIST* 



BRIKF SPBCIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 



Wanted, Exchange, Far Sale, Etc., inserted in this departmeot at 26 ••»!• 

 for each 25 words for one issue; each additional word 1 cent. No notle« IH- 



■^erted for less than 25 cents. 



We will advertise the skins, nests, eggs, or mounted specimens of North Amer- 

 ican Birds for sale for persons having a lawful authority under the law to deal 

 in the same. These columns are for the use of those desiring to make bona fide 

 exchanges of such specimens for scientific collecting purposes only. — EDITOR. 



m answering advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and 

 there(by help us, as well as the advertiser and yourself. 



BIRDS 



EGGS. 



Send me the list of A 1 Bird Skins that you 

 have to dispose of by exchange or otherwise. 

 R. M. BARNES. Lacon, 111. 



FOR EXCHANGE— A large list of Al North 

 American species of skins for specimens 

 needed in my collection. C. W. CHAMBER- 

 LAIN. 36 Lincoln St., Boston, Mass. 



ALL PERSONS having A-1 skins in 

 pairs of any of the North American 

 Jays send list. I will pay the highest 

 price for those that I need. R. M. 

 BARNES, Lacon, 111. 



EXCHANGE — Collection of North 

 American Birds. Containing fo-ur hun- 

 dred and twenty-three species and sub- 

 species. Represented by thirteen hun- 

 dred and sixty specimens. PHILIP 

 LAURENT, 31 East Mt. Airy Ave., Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa. 



WANTED— A pair of living Sand Hill 

 Cranes A. O. U. No. 806, taken north •f 

 the center of the U. S. If the birds are 

 only slightly wingtipped this will not 

 matter. For them I will pay a good 

 price. R. M. Barnes. Lacon, III. 



WANTS SETS of 2-3-47-136-140-167- 

 196-208-289-305-611. Will exchange 



mounted alligator, 36 inches long, for 

 sets. Send list. Will send mine. F. M. 

 CARRYL, Maplewood, N. J. 



WANTED for Cash — Any one or all 

 complete vols, of the "Asprey." Please 

 write price. B. S. GRIFFIN, 22 Currier 

 Ave., Haverhill, Mass. 



Would like to Exchange bird Migra- 

 tion notes with observer in western 

 state, preferably Montana. A. S. WAR- 

 THIN, Ferda Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



FOR SALE — Bird Lore, 100 single, 13 

 odd volumes, $1.25 each; Condor, vol. 

 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and singles-; Portraits of 

 birds, Trumhull; Birds of Maine, 

 Knights; Birds of Conn., Sage; Oologist, 

 singles; The Warblers, 5 vols. Childs. 

 C. M. CASE, 306 Blue Hills Ave., Hart- 

 ford, Conn. 



FOIl EXCHANGE— Reed's Bird Guide 

 (Part I, Water Birds), Tree Guide, 

 Flower Guide, Standard Library Nat. 

 Hist., 5 vols., plates and hundreds of 

 other Ills., Am. Ornithology (Wilson 

 and Bonaparte), Bird Friends (Kear- 

 ton). Bird Our Brother (Miller), Wond- 

 ers of Bird World (Sharpe), Birdcraft 

 (Wright), N. A. Wild Fowl (Elliot), 

 Nests and Eggs (Davie), Worn Copy. 

 Nuttalls Ornithology, 2 vols., many col- 

 ored plates. What I Have Done With 



Birds (Porter), Auk vol. XXXI un- 

 bound, Birds of Conn. (Merriman), 

 Birds of Penna. (Warren), Land and 

 Game Birds of New Eng. (Minot), Pac. 

 Coast Avifaunas Nos. 7 & 8. Want only 

 the following: 30, 30a, 31, 31a, showy 

 blue or green specimens only. Sets of 

 any species of Gull or Tern, also sets 

 of 417, 444, (461 with A-1 nest in situ), 

 552, (751 with A-1 nest in situ). PAUL 

 G. HOWES LABORATORY, Stamford, 

 Conn. 



In semdinis iii your exckamve lROtl«»» 

 for nestis, skins and effss« «re Trouli 19- 

 preciate it if you vronld turrnmge Mb 

 auiuerois in your exehance B«tlM Jbk 

 their numerical order, MiaT act tvmftlc 



them together lilt aad miss, •»> •«■»« «> 

 our readers are complaians:* a^A ^i^ 

 (hlnlc justly so. 



WANTED — Entire collection of Eggs 



of North American Birds for spot cash. 



R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. 



FOR SALE — Complete sets and odd 

 volumes of Nidologist, Osprey, Condor, 

 Warbler and N. A. Fauna; Auk, VIII- 

 XXVIII inclusive; Ridgway's "Manual", 

 "Birds Mid. & North Am," complete. 

 "The Hummingbirds"; Coues' "Orni- 

 thological Bibliography" complete, 

 "Birds of Northwest," "Key" 4th Ed.; 

 Turner's "Contributions Nat. Hist. 

 Alaska"; Nelson's "Nat. Hist. Collec- 

 tions in Alaska"; Corwin Cruises in 

 Alaska; Stejneger's "Explor. Command- 

 er Ids. & Kamchatka", "Poisonous 

 Snakes of N. Am."; Allen's "Hist. N. Am. 

 Pinnipeds", "Hist. Am. Bison"; Horna- 

 day's "Extermination of Am. Bison"; 

 Bailey's "Handbook Birds West. U. S."; 

 Cory's "Birds of Bahamas"; Bendire's 

 "Life Histories N. Am. Birds"; Biologi- 

 cal Survey Bulletins; National Museum 

 Reports, Proceedings, and Bulletins; 

 of N. Am.", "Cretaceous Vertebrata" ; 

 Elliott's "Seal Ids." (including copy of 

 very rare suppressed edition); Fern 

 Bulletin Vols. VI to XIV; Dwight's "Our 

 Feathered Game"; Minot's "Land and 

 Game Birds New Eng."; Macoun's "Cat. 

 Canadian Birds"; Marsh's "Dinocer- 

 ata"; Steam's "New England Bird 

 Life"; Samuels' "Our North. & East. 

 Birds"; Stone's "Birds New Jersey"; 

 Warren's "Birds of Pennsylvania"; 

 Knight's "Birds Wyoming"; many 

 others, mostly rare and out of print. 

 Address DR. T. W. RICHARDS, U. S. 

 Navy, Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md. 



