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THE OOLOGIST. 



Choice Specimens. 



Spider Crab, 3 to 5 in ,... $ 25 



Swimming Crab, 2 to 4 in 15 



Hermit Crab, in Sea Snail Shell, 2 in.. . 25 



Sea Snail, 2b in 08 



Sea Clams, double valves, 2 to 3 in 08 



Henretite, Iron Mountains, Mo.. 1 to 



3 in 5c. to 25 



• Orders under 25c. send 5c. for postage. 

 CHARLES L. PHILLIPS. Taunton, Mass- 



THE JOURNAL OF THE 



Maine Ornithological Society 



A quarterly devoted to the study and 

 protection of the birds. Now in its 6th 

 volume. Subscription 50 cents per 

 annum. Send stamps for sample copy. 



J. MERTON SWAIN, Business Mgr., 

 Fairfield, Maine. 



BIRDS EGGS. 



If you are interested In Single Eggs and 

 did not see my list in last Oologist send for 

 a copy at once. 



EGGS IN SETS JUST IN. 



Violet Green Swallow 1-5 65 



Rough-winged Swallow 1-6 48 



Oregon Towhee 1-4 35 



Anthony's Towhee 1-3 16 



Rusty Song Sparrow 1-4 35 



San Diego Song Sparrow 1-4 20 



Trains' Flycatcher, 1-4 20 



Alder Flycatcher 1-4 20 



Am. Barn Owl 1-5 75 



Northwest Flicker 1-6 45 



All postpaid. ERNEST H. SHORT, Ro- 

 chester, N. Y. 



Sea Shells. 



25 shells, each a different variety, by mail 

 for 25 cents with engravings of each. Send 

 stamps or coin. Have a big stock of White 

 Olives (Panamas) for making portiers. Low 

 price by the thousand. Shells for all kind of 

 fancy work. Scollop shells 30 cents per dozen 

 by mail. Birds Eggs. Have a lot side blown 

 of Guillimot and Tern eggs from Japan, a 

 pair by mail 45 cents. My big catalogue of 

 novelties with first order. 



J. F. Powell, 



m. 6. t. 



Waukegan, 111. 



Scientific 



Shelis and 

 Corals. 



Fossil 



I have recently issued a list of what I have 

 left in the above lines. If at all interested it 

 will well repay you to drop me a postal for a 

 copy of same. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion. N. Y. 



BIRD BOOKS. 



A few rare and desirable titles at reason- 

 able prices. Will ship cheapest way at pur- 

 chaser's expense. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y. 



Gentry. Nests and Eggs of Birds of the 



United States.— 310pp. 50 col. plates, 4to, 

 half morocco, binding slightly dam- 

 aged $8 50 



DeKay Ornithology of New Yovk.— 392p. 

 141 full-page col. plated, containing 308 

 birds in natural colors 4to; this rare 

 and magnificient work usually sells at 

 from $15 to $20 per copy 11 50 



Studer's Bird's of North America 200p, 

 119 col. pi. imp. 4to; a magnificient 

 work ($40) 14 50 



Coues. birds of Colorado valley.— 823 

 pp. 66 Ills. 8vo fine copy 4 50 



COUES. BIRDS OF THE NORTHWEST. —791pp. 



8vo, as new 4 50 



Nelson, (edited by Henshaw) natural his- 

 tory of Alaska.— Mostly devoted to 

 birds, 337pp, 21pl (22 very fine of birds 

 in colors) 4to, red cloth and leather. . . 4 50 

 Blanchan, bird neighbors.— An intro- 

 ductory acquaintance with one hun- 

 dred and fifty birds commonly found 

 in the woods, fields and gardens about 

 our homes. This book makes the 

 identification of our common birds 

 simple and positive, even to the un- 

 initiated. 48 colored plates 2 00 



Blanchan. birds that hunt and are hunted. 

 —Life Histories of one hundred and 

 seventy Birds of Prey, Game Birds 

 and Water and Fowl. 48 plates of 



birds in natural colors 2 00 



Dugmore. bird homes.— A popular and 

 intimate account of the nests, eggs, 

 and breeding habits of the land birds 

 that nest in Eastern United States 48 

 plates (16 in colors), 64 common eggs 



in colors 2 00 



Davie, methods in the art of taxidermy.— 

 ($10), now out of print and publishers 



supply exhausted 3 75 



Greene, parrots in captivity,— 3 vols., 

 440p 81 full page col. pi., large 8 vol; a 



magnificient work. '84, ($15» 4 50 



Blackburn, Mrs. Hugh, birds drawn from 

 nature.— Illustrated, with 45 fine folio 

 plates. Folio. Morocco, gilt, binding 

 damaged. Imported 3 25 



HUDSON. BIRDS IN A VILLAGE.— A delight- 

 ful series of out-door Essays. Square. 

 8vo. 232pp. .$2.25) 90 



Watkins. bird life.— Pictures in Pen 

 and Pencil. Folio, 154p. With 28 full 

 page illustrations by Giacomelli. A 

 magnificient book, bound in morocco, 

 gilt edge 3 25 



Wood, ornithology of the world.— 

 Americanized by Holder: this is the 

 Ornithological Volume of Wood's 

 "Animate Creation" or "Our Living 

 World." 640p, (10x13 in.) 10 full-page 

 oleographs in colors. 20 full-page eng. 

 and 300 ills, elegantly bound in full 

 morocco 4 50 



White, the natural history of selbourne. 



—With notes and many ills. 6 in. cols., 

 800. This is the elegant $2.50 presenta- 

 tion edition and is less than at one- 

 half publisher's price, viz 1 00 



Do., do. do. $1.25 edition 40 



20 Per Cent. Discount 



will be allowed from above prices during 

 July and August. They must be closed out 

 as I've no time to devote to my old business. 



