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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY 



* BY ■ 



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



Correspondence and items of interest to the 

 student of Birds, their Nests and Eggs, solicited 

 from alL 



TEEMS OIF SUBSCEIPTION. 



Single Subscription, 



Sample Copies, 



The above rates include postage and premium 



50c per annum. 

 5c each. 



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 mate and we will give you the exact cost of the 

 advt. you wish inserted. 



Remittances should he 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 

 Order. Unused U. S. postage stamps of any de- 

 nomination will be accepted for sums under one 

 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. 



The Result of the 

 Prize Subscription Contest. 



The contest, although not as general as we 

 would have liked, must have proven very 

 satisfactory to the contestants. 50 prizes 

 were offered and as there was only 36 com- 

 petiors, each and every one recieved a 

 valuable prize, worth fully as much as the 

 total amount of cash sent they us ; only 15 of 

 the 36 contestants sent us over 50 cts. and 

 of the remaining 21, 17 sent us one new 

 subscriber at 50cts. , 2 sent two at 25cts. 

 and two sent one at 2 5 cts. 



In awarding the prizes we were obliged 

 to take into consideration, not only the No. 

 of subscribers sent but also the amount of 

 cash and the date of sending. The principal 

 reason for being obliged to take these con- 

 ditions into consideration was that in 

 August we not only, extended the compe- 

 tition from Aug. 10th to the 20th, but 

 also stated that 25ct. subscriptions for the 

 balance of the year would be counted in the 

 contest. This extension and offer not only 



added 14 new contestants to the list, but 

 aided 11 of the ones capturing the first 15 

 prizes to increase their lists. Thus in ma- 

 king awards, we placed the contestant 

 sending us 2 subscribers at 50cts. each June 

 1st, ahead of one sending us 4 subscribers 

 Aug. 10th, at 25 cts. This we, and we 

 think our friends will consider the most 

 fair method of determining the rank of the 

 lucky contestants. 



The following is a list of the winners 

 The 1st figures state the amount of cash 

 and the 2nd the No. of subscribers sent. 



1st Prize:— Maynard's Birds of Eastern 

 North America, W. E. Colby, Benicia, Cal., 

 sent $6.45 for 20 subscribers. 



2nd Prize :— Set of two eggs of the Bald 

 Eagle, Van H. Lewis, Potsdam, N. Y., 

 $3.75 10. 



3rd Prize:— $7.00 worth "job lots", L. 

 W. Nichols, Jr., Richmond, Ills., $3.55 13. 



4th Prize :— specimens worth $5.00, 

 Wilfred H. Garland, Saccarappa, Me., 

 $2.35 4. 



5th Prize:— $3.50 worth "job lots", James 

 Levy, Chicago Ills., $2.00 5. 



6th to '10th, each an Ostrich Egg. 

 W. Pratt, Lake Forest, Ills., $2: 00 8; 

 J. D. Sornborger, Guilford, N. Y. $2,00 5 

 Will N. Colton, Biddeford, Me., $2.00 7 

 W. C. Oldfield, Cedar Spgs., Mich., $1.50 6 

 Chas. E. Swett, Saccarappa, Me., $1,00 2 



11th to 15th each a copy of "Davie's New 

 Egg Check List". 



W. A. Lee, New Vineyard, Me., $1.00 2 

 F. W. Curtis, Wauwatosa, Wis., $1.00 3 

 Frank Harris, LaCrescent, Minn., $1.00 4 

 Normie Hall, San Jose, Cal., $1.00 2: 

 John T. Parsons, So. Paris, Me., $.75 3. 



16th to 25th, each an egg of the Am. 

 Flamingo. 



E. L. Steele, Ct. ; C. S. Myers, Neb. ; 

 S. A. Taft, S. C. ; U. Clark, Minn. ; 



J. H. Fisher, Jr., Md. ; G. M. Price, la. ; 



F. T. Sterling, L.I., N. Y. ; G. W. Smith, Me. ; 

 W. Denton, Ills. ; E. M. Strong, Wis. 

 each 50cts., 1 sub. 



26th to 36th, each a specimen usually 

 retailed at 50cts. (a nest of the Tarantula). 

 H. Mead, Col. ; F. Card, la. ; 

 L. Grant, N. J. ; A. K. Ashworth, Pa. ; 



