THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY 



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



Correspondence and Items of interest to the 

 student, of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited 

 from all. 



TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 



Single Subscription, 



sample Copies, 



The above rates Include postage and premium. 



50c per annum. 

 5c each. 



ADVERTISING RATES 



Made known on application. Send copy for esti- 

 mate and we will give you the exact cost of the 

 advt. you wish Inserted. 



Remittances should be made by draft on New 

 York; money order or postal note payable at 

 Albion, N. Y.; registered letter; or by the Amer- 

 ican, U. s., or Wells & Fargo Express Co. Money 

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 dollar. Make money orders and drafts payable 

 and address all subscriptions and communications 

 to, FRANK H. LATTIN, 



Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. 



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

 second-class mail matter. 



Does It Pay to Advertise in the Oolo- 

 gist P 



A few unsolicited testimonials. — Prof. J. 

 A. Singley, of Giddiugs, Tex., writes as 

 follows, in regard to his one inch adv. in 

 Dec. issue : 



" I ve been away from home nearly all 

 the time since Jan. 1st, but my wife and 

 my brother, who attend to biz. in iny ab- 

 sence, tell me that nearly 150 requests for 

 lists, mentioning l he Oologist, have come 

 to hand. " 



K. B. Trouslot &Co., of Valparaiso, Ind., 

 appear satisfied : 



" Is the Oologist a good advertising me- 

 dium ? Well, ire think it is. From one 

 small adv. in same, we received, to date, 

 over one hundred and twenty-five (125) re- 

 plies, by actual count, and many more that 

 we could not trace, that may have resulted 

 from that adv. Now we are pretty good 

 at remembering names and addresses, and 

 after supplying these people with circulars, 

 have received from them, during March 

 alone, over $130 in cash, besides many val- 

 uable exchanges. It pays to advertise spe- 

 cialties in papers that have specialists as 

 subscribers or readers. 



Enclosed please find copy for another 

 adv. Send bill. 



Yours fraternally, K. B. Trouslot & Co. 



Gleanings From Our Correspondence. 



J. L., Beverly, Mass., writes „• "I sent to 

 your office tor the January and February 

 numbers of Oologist, and received two pa- 

 pers that I did not send for and did not 

 want, and if you are going to try and pass 

 off old papeis on me you have got the 

 wrong man, and if you cannot send me 

 what I send for, you can refund the 50 cts. 

 I sent in Dec, 1887. If you do not send me 

 the January and February numbers before 

 the end of a week from date, you stand lia- 

 ble to be published as a fraud, so to save 

 trouble for both sides send what I want 

 before 7 days." 



Sometimes we receive letters like 

 the above, and often, we fear, they are 

 justly merited, but friends, we are do- 

 ing the best we know how. Truly, we are 

 behind in issuing the Oologist, owing to 

 circumstances which could not, as far as 

 we are concerned, be avoided, but we are 

 doing our best to ' ' catch up. " If you have 

 any complaints to make, please make them 

 pleasantly. We 'guarantee satisfaction, 'and 

 have yet to find the first instance where we 

 failed to do so. Our feelings are not less 

 blunt than those of our friends, and it 

 pains us greatly to read a letter like the 

 above when we are striving to do the best 

 we can. — Ed. 



E. E. F. , Jefferson, Wis., would like to 

 know the proper names of the following 

 birds: "Wild Canary, the Big Marsh or Clo- 

 sier Snipe, Yellow Creeper, Clover Finch — 

 this bird always lays its eggs very near a 

 tuft of clover, and the High Holder. " 



The last is one of the two-score or more 

 names given to the Flicker. — Ed. 



W. S. C, of Peoria, 111., writes: "I 

 have donated my collection of some 150 

 species to the Peoria Scientific Associa- 

 tion, and am still collecting for them. My 

 lot are chiefly in sets, and mostly of my 

 own collecting. As I have no cabinet fit to 

 show them in, I am going to request you, 

 through your valuable paper, to solicit de- 

 scriptions of style of cabinets used by some 

 of your subscriers " 



G. L. W. Mt. Morris, N. Y., queries: 

 ' 'A few mornings ago I heard a bird sing- 

 ing, perched on the top-most branch of a 

 tall elm tree. It made very strange noises, 



