THE OOLOGIST. 



THE 00L0" *T FOR 1888 



will be published mint .^y and sent prepaid to 

 any address for only sue. Every subscriber send- 

 ing the full subscription price will be entitled to 

 any one of the following Premiums, viz.: 



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

 gist Directory; 3 100 Data Blanks; 4 200 

 Tags for Bird Skins; 5 Good Blow-Pipe; 

 6 Fine J-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 Pish 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. Red 

 Coral, Sandwich Isles; 19 Large Barnacle; 

 20 2 Beetle Nuts, NewZealand ; 21 Package of 

 Coraline, Tonga Bay, S. Africa; 22 One 

 fine spec, each Hot Spring Quartz, 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 

 Uterata; 29 Two extra spec. JYerita pelerovta 

 and one Ghuma Arcanella; 30 Five var. 

 named Cyprm. 



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 eaoh. At 

 any other time you must remit regular list 

 price, which will average 25 cents each. 



SHOULD YOU PREFEE PAYING 



35 CENTS ADDITIONAL 



(making S5c for Oologist 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- 

 oe don ized Coral fromW.Fla; 33 A Fine Saw- 

 Fish Saw; 34 A splendid spec, of that large 

 Showy Shell, Uardium Magmtm; 35 A large 

 spray of either red or pink Coral ; 86 An 

 Ivory Apple from So. Sen, 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 Algca from Martha's Vine- 

 yard, all different. 



Premiums 31 to 40 usually retail at from 75c to 

 St. 50 each. Should you desire more than one of 

 them you can, if ordered at same time of 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. 



FOEEIGN STAMPS. 

 We have a few sets of each the following rare 

 stamps, which we otter at the low rates quoted 

 below. All warranted genuine. 5 per ct. discount 

 on orders of So.oo or over, 10 per cent discount 

 on orders of $10 or over. 

 Sets preceeded with * are unused. Per Set-. 



* Alsace & Loraine, inverted type reset, 7 



var. complete $ .20 



* Angola, 7 var. 5 — 10ti r 75 



* Austria, env., '61, R var. comp 2.so 



* "■ • " '68, 5 " " 75 



* " " '67, 5 " " 65 



* "Newspapers" ■• 25 



" Telegraph 8 " " 15 



* Austrian Italy, env., '01, 8 var. " 2.50 



* " " " '63. 5 " " .'. l.t'O 



* " " " '67, 5 " " 65 



Bavaria '70, 7 var 05 



* " return letter, 6 var com .06 



* Bhore, 2 var .-20 



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



'80, 4 " 40 



'82, 4 " 40 



■ '83, 4 " 40 



'84, 4 " 40 



'S5, 4 " 40 



Bulgaria, 7 " V> 



Cape ol Good Hope, 9 " >_>d to ss 25 



Cuba, '57-82, 20 " 25 



*" '67, 4 " comp 45 



15 " 'OS, 4 " " 41 



* Cape Verde, 7 "5rto300r SO 



* China, '85, 3 " comp 3> 



* Costa Rica. '62, 4 " " 63 



X&l" "offlcia, 5 " •• 1.50 



* Deccan, '71 7 " 1.75 



* Dutch Indies, unpaid, '82 to S3 6 var 1.25 



* Dominican Rep., '79, 4 var., comp 75 



'so, 6 " 40 



Egypt, '79t082, 8" 20 



* " . 1st. Issue, unperf , 7 var 1,50 



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



* " 'si.prov. 4" " 1.23 



* " '85, " 5" " *. 75 



* " env.&wrap. 4" " 75 



France, unpaid, l4"lcto5fr PO 



French Colonies, '70-Sl 20 " W 



Goldcoast. 6" &> 



-Liberia, '60, 8 " comp 90 



* Heligoland, 20" 40 



Italy '53, 3" " 75 



'54, 3' : " 50 



Mauritius 9" 41 



*Mexlco. "64, Eng.4" ...1.00 



» " Maximillian, 3 " 30 



» ' ' Port de Mar. black, 12 var. comp. , 1.50 



" colored, 6 " " .35 



"Monte negro, 7 var. " . * 75 



^Persia, official, 4" *• 25 



* Prussia, env. l sg. to 7 sg. , 7 var. 2. 00 



*Reunion Isl'ds, 5" 90 



*I\omagna, 5" 40 



*Koman States, '62, fi " 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" " l.oo 



SierraLeone, s " 50 



Spain, . 50 " ."50 



U. S. of Columbia, 10 " 63 



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.J0 



10C0 " 2.'00 



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

 Write for price-list of Albums. 



