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THE OOLOGIST. 



Dayie's Egg Check Li£t 



AND KEY TO THE 



NESTS AND EGGS OF N. A. 

 BIRDS'. 



Columbus, O., Aug. 20, '88. 

 Dear Mr. Lattin: — 



Your letters of 

 inquiry are before me. At this 

 date, nearly one-half of my Nests 

 and Eggs of North American 

 Birds' is out of press,- 



Owing to the fact that I have 

 lately come in posession of most 

 valuable notes regarding the nest- 

 ing and eggs of some of the most 

 rare species of our N. A. birds, I 

 have purposely delayed the work 

 in order to obtain and incorporate 

 them. I have clone this because 

 the book would have been very in- 

 complete without them. Many of 

 the eggs have never been described 

 in any periodical or book, and I 

 could not afford to see my work 

 progress through the press with- 

 out these additions, although they 

 did come to hand a little late. 

 Some of these notes are on the 

 nesting and eggs of the rarest 

 species of Water Birds, the text of 

 which is all printed and in order 

 to incorporate these I shall be com- 

 pelled to print an Appendix. 



Another cause of the slowness 

 with which the work progresses, is 

 the fact that the proofs are all 

 sent to Philadelphia and read by 

 a competent person and then re- 

 turned. As this too is the final 

 edition of this work, it must not be 

 put through hastily — far more at- 

 tention and care must be bestowed 

 upon it than the former editions 

 received, because it contains fully 

 three times the amount of matter. 



It is almost an imposition to ask 

 you to publish again another excuse 

 for the delay of the work. Doubt- 

 less your subscribers will not ac- 

 cept it, and I do not see how you 

 are going to master the situation 

 in which I have placed you. Don't 

 mention the work again in paint 

 until it is out of press, which will 

 be some time in October sure. 

 Yery Truly. 



OLIYEK DAYIE. 



Of Special Importance. 



The delay in issuing the Oolo- 

 GIT, filling orders and attending to 

 our correspondence during the 

 past month, we know must have 

 been very annoying to our patrons. 

 In order to straighten matters 

 satisfactorily, pay good interest 

 on delays and to make each and 

 every one of our friends good 

 natured, we make all the fol- 

 lowing offers, which at the prices 

 quoted will never be duplicated: 



Upon each and every order net- 

 ting me $1.00 or over you may see 

 fit to send me on or before Nov. 

 6th, 1888, for anything I ad- 

 vertise in this Oologist, I will 

 give 20 cts. worth of specimens, 

 gratis. On an order of $5.00 I will 

 give $1.00 worth. On an order of 

 $10.00, $2.25 worth, and on an 

 order of $25.00 I v, ill put in speci- 

 mens worth $6.00 addition**-. 



In accepting either of these 

 offers my friends can name such 

 specimens as they may prefer for 

 the "extra," but in case I can not 

 spare the ones they prefer, 

 privilege is reserved to substitute 

 others equally desirable. 

 Faithfully, 



FBANK H. LATTIN. 



