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WANTED.-Skins of Bob-white (Am. 

 Quail). Cash or exchange. Can u«e several 

 dozen. Address at once. CHAS. K. REED, 

 Worcester. Mass. Taxidermist. 



WANTED.-Oologist. July and August, 

 1886, No. 18. Must be clean and whole- 

 State cash price. Also Davie's odds and 

 ends in prose and verse. R. P. SMITH WICK, 

 133 Marrinor St.. Norfolk, Va. 





For sa-le or exchange. 



Indian Wampum, white and black; Pottery, 

 Beads, Necklaces, etc., from graves. Cere- 

 monial Stones, (see cut above) Prehistoric 

 Mortars, Pestles. Bows, Arrows, Points, 

 Shell Work, Ostrich and Farallone Cormor- 

 ant Eggs and old Guns and Pistols. 



June 2t. 



J. B. LEWIS. 910 Washington St.. 

 Pet&luma,, Ca.liforr\ie, . 

 Sonoma County. 



Important Announcement! 



TAYLOR'S Standard Egg Catalogue, 

 2d edition will be out July 20th. If you 

 have offered no suggestions, or have 

 not sent in name and data for Directory 

 feature (see May Oologist), do so at 

 once. Printing will be the best, type 

 large, fine for check-list; size new — long 

 and convenient for pocket. Advertise- 

 ment, per inch (8 inches wide colulm) 

 $1.50. Pays returns for years. Send 

 "copy" early. Address, 



" HENRY REED TAYLOR, 

 Publisher, 

 Alameda, California. 



A Book Bargain. 



BREHM'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



The Toesche edition printed in Liepsic 

 in 1890. 



Subscription edition and now out of print. 

 Thirteen parts, each in a case. 



Four parts on Birds. 



Four ** on Animals. 



One part on Fish- 

 One " on Reptiles. - 



( »ne " on Insects. 



One " on Corals, etc. 



One " Index. 

 Each part about 800 pages, 180 steel plates, 

 1800 engravings. The subscription price was 



$52.00. Good as New. 



Each part was issued in 13 numbers, and 

 some of these sold as high as 70c. each, sepa- 

 rately. At this rate the work would come at 

 about $100. 



Price of this set, express or freight, f. o. b., 

 only $30.00. 



Address, 

 J.2.t. J. B. LEWIS, 



Petaluma, California. 



910 Washington St. 



Fine Sets For Sale. 



Collected in Canada with origi- 

 nal data labels. 



Loon, sets of 2 $ 1 00 per egg 



Red-throated Loon sets of 2 50 



Glaucous winged Gull sets of 2. . 40 

 American Merganser, sets of 8.. 75 

 Red-breasted Merganser, sets of 



8 



Black Duck, sets of 10 



Gad wall, sets of 10 



Shoveller, sets of 8 



Pintail, sets of 8 



Redhead, sets of 8 



Canvas back, sets of 8 



American Scaup, sets of S 



Ring-necked Duck sets of 9 



Old squaw, sets of 7 



Harlequin Duck, sets of 6 



Black Brant, sets of 5 and 6 



Greater Snow Goose sets of 5 



Pacific Eider, sets of 5 



Sandhill Crane, sets of 2 



Northern Phalarope. sets of 4... 



Wilson's Phalarope sets of 4 



Wilson's Snipe, sets of 4 



Least Sandpiper, sets of 4 



Red-backed Sandpiper, sets of 4 



Greater Yellowlegs, sets of 3 



Buff-breasted Sandpiper, sets 4 



Snowy Owl, sets 3 to 8 



Rock Ptarmigan, sets of 8 



Northern Raven, sets of 4 



Send for full list to 



W. RAINE. 



Kew Beach, Toronto, Canada. 



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