THE OOLOGIST. 



THE OOLOGIST FOR 1888 



will tie published monthly and sent prepaid to 

 any address lor only 50c. Every subscriber send- 

 ing the lull subscription price will be entitled to 

 any one of the following Premiums, viz.: 



No. 1 Oologists' Hand-Book; 2 Oblo- 

 gist Directory; 3 100 Data Blanks; 4 200 

 Tags for Bird Skins; 5 Good Blow-Pipe; 

 6 Fine ±-in Egg Drill; 7 12 Checking Lists; 

 8 Egg of Black Skimmer; 9 Egg of Louis- 

 iana Heron; 10 Egg of Forster's Tern; 11 

 Shark Egg; 12 Devil Fish Egg; 13 Alliga- 

 tor Egg, 14 Geode of Chalcedony; 15 

 Resurrection Plant; 16 Set of 3 Eggs, with 

 data, of Cardinal Grosbeak; 17 Fine spec. 

 Pink Coral, Caroline Isles; 18 Fine spec. Bed 

 Coral, Sandwich Isles ; 19 Large Barnacle; 

 20 2 Beetle Nuts, NewZealand; 21Packageof 

 Coraline, Tonga Bay. S. Africa; 23 One 

 fine spec, each Hot Spring Quarte, Xtal & 

 Herk. Co. Doubly Terminated Quartz Dia- 

 mond; 23 Fine Fossil Fern, in kidney 

 shaped nodule; 24 One extra fine Arrow- 

 head; 25 One Oblong Japanese Coin; 26 

 Five Chinese Coins; 27 100 var. Foreign 

 Stamps; 28 Two very fine specimens Oliva 

 literata; 29 Two extra spec. Nerita peleronta 

 and one GJiama Arcanella; 30 Five var. 

 named Gyprm. 



Should you desire more than one of the 

 above Premiums, you can, at the same 

 time of sending your subscription, select 

 one or. more of them at 10 cents each. At 

 any other time you must remit regular list 

 price, which will average 25 cents each. 



SHOULD YOU PREFER PAYING 



85 CENTS ADDITIONAL 



(making 85c lor Oologlst and Premium.) 

 you can select any one of the following, in 

 place of the above, as Premium : 



No. 31 A fine nest of the Tarantula or 

 Trap-Door Spider; 32 a fine Geode of Chal- 

 cedouized Coral fromW.Fla; 33 A Fine Saw- 

 Fish Saw; 34 A splendid spec, of that large 

 Showy Shell, Gar dium Magnum; 35 A large 

 spray of either red or pink Coral; 36 An 

 Ivory Apple from So. Sea Isles, very cur- 

 ious. Almost everyone takes it for a large 

 petrified apple, so close is the resemblance. 

 37 A Mammoth Purple Sea Urchin from the 

 Pacific; 38 One Egg of the American Flam- 

 ingo; 39 A fine Inkstand handsomely cov- 

 ered with named showy Minerals, mouni'ed 

 with bronze top ; 40 One doz. cards of finely 

 mounted Marine Algoe from Martha's Vine- 

 yard, all different. 



Premiums 31 to 40 usually retail at from 75c to 

 $1.50 each. Should you desire more than one ol 

 them you can, if ordered at same time ol sending 

 your subscription, select one or more at 45c each: 

 at any other time full retail price must be paid. 



Address plainly, Frank H. Lattin, Abion, N. Y. 



FOREIGN STAMPS. 



We have a lew sets of each the following rare 

 stamps, which we offer at the low rates quoted 

 below. All warranted genuine. 5 per ct. discount 

 on orders of $5.00 or over, 10 per cent discount 

 on orders of $10 or over. 



Sets preceeded with * are unused. Per Sfet. 



*Alsace & Loralne, inverted type reset, 7 



var. complete $ .20 



*Angola, 7 var. 5 — loor 75 



* Austria, env., '61, 8 var. comp 2.5o 



* " " '63, 5 " " 75 



* " " '67, 5 " -' 65 



* "Newspapers" " 25 



" Telegraph 8 " " 15 



* Austrian Italy, env., '61, 8 var. " 2.so 



* " " " '63, 5 •■ " 1.00 



'67, 5 " '« 65 



Bavaria '70, 7 var 05 



* " return letter, 6 var com 06 



*Bhore, 2 var 20 



Bolivar, '79, 4 var., comp. 40 



'80, 4 " 40 



'82, 4 " 40 



'83, 4 " 40 



'84, 4 " 40 



'85, 4 " 40 



Bulgaria, 7 " 15 



Cape of Good Hope, 9" ^dto5S 25 



Cuba, '57-S2, 20 " 25 



*" '67, 4 " comp 45 



* " '68, 4 " ■ " 45 



* Cape Verde, 7 "5rto300r 80 



* China, '85, 3 " comp. 35 



* Costa Rica. '62, 4 " " 65 



X&l" " officia, 5 " '• 1.50 



* Deccan, '71 7 " 1.75 



J Dutch Indies, unpaid, '82 to 83 6 var 1.25 



* Dominican R ep. , '79, 4 var. , comp „ . JR 



'80, 6 " 40 



Egypt, '79t082, 8" 20 



* " 1st. issue, unperf, 7 var 1.50 



* Guatemala, ,75, 4 var. com, 20 



* " '81,prov.4" ■• 1.25 



* " '85, " 5" " 75 



* •• env.&WTap. 4" " 75 



France, unpaid, 14" lcto5fr 90' 



French Colonies, '70-8120" 50 



Gold Coast, 6" ' 3> 



'Liberia, '60, 3"comp 90 



* Heligoland, 20" 40 



Italy '53, 3" " 75 



'54, 3' ; " ....50 



Mauritius 9" 40 



*Mexico. '64, Eng.4" 1.00 



* " Maximillian, 3" 50 



* " Port de Mar, black, 12 var. comp 1.50 



" colored, 6 •• " 35 



'Montenegro, 7 var. " 75 



'Persia, official, - 4" •• 25 



* Prussia, env. lsg. to7sg., 7 var. 2.00 



'Reunion Isl'ds,' 5" 90 



'Romagna, 5" 40 



'Roman States, '62, 5" 10 



'Roumania, '62, 4" comp 65 



'Russia, locals, 15 " 75 



'Sarawack, '71-75, 6 " comp l.OO 



'Spain, '72, 9"5C-4p 1.25 



* " official, 4" comp 20 



'Surinam, unpaid, 6" •• 1.00 



Sierra Leone, 8-' • 50 



Spain, 50 " 50 



U. S. of Columbia, 10" 65 



United States, '69, 30c 1.00 



* " " State, 3c or 6c ea. 25 



CHEAP PACKETS— 100 No two alike 12 



1000 Mixed 25 



100 Finely mixed, suitable for sheets or 



packets, no common ones 25 



500 do. 1.10 



10C0 " 2.00 



Address plainly Frank H. Lattin, Albion, N. Y. 

 Write for price-list of Albums. 



