The Oologist 



A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY. 



WANTS, FOR SALES AND EXCHANGES, 



Brief Special announcements " Wants," " Exchanges," " For Sales," inserted in this de- 

 partment for 25 cents per 25 words. Notices over 25 words charged at the rate of 1-2 cent for 

 each additional word. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. Terms, cash with order. 



Strictly first-class specimens will be accepted in payment at 1-3 list rates. 



Vol. XXII. No. 2. 



ALBION, N. Y., FEB., 1005. 



Whole No. 211 



What's Your Number ? 



Examine the number following your name 

 on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It 

 denotes when your subscription expired or 

 will expire. 



211 vour subscription expires with this issue 

 219 " " " " Oct., 1905 



221 " " " " Dec, 1095 



257 " " " " Dec, 1908 



Intermediate numbers can easily be deter- 

 mined. If we have you credited wrong we 

 wish to rectify. 



Entered as second-class matter December 

 21, 1903, at the post office at Albion, N. Y., 

 under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 



I HAVE a few very desirable sets for ex- 

 change, such as loons, alabatross. cranes, 

 falcons, kites and other Raptores, ducks with 

 down, etc. Warblers especially wanted. All 

 answered. A. E. PRICE .Grant Park, 111, stf 



WANTED— Fine sets of Sharp Shinned 

 Hawks eggs. Will give handsome sets of 

 Aplomado Falcon at reduced rates. T. H. 

 JACKSON, 343 E. Biddle St., West Chester, 

 Pa. 



FOR SALE.— I have many back numbers 

 of various natural history magazines, includ- 

 ing the Nidologist, Osprey. Museum, O and 

 O, Oologist, Audubon's Magazine and others; 

 Books and pamphlets on Natural History 

 subjects; some good bird and mammal 

 skins; marine invertebrates in formalin; 

 reptile and batrachians in formalin and al- 

 cohol; and various curios. Any of above 

 cheap for cash. No exchange desired. If you 

 have as much as fifty cents to invest send for 

 my lists, but don't write unless you mean 

 business. F. P. DROWNE, M. D., 20 Bene- 

 fit St., Providence, R. I. N.4.t. 



DO YOU ever Trap. If so you want "The 

 Amateur Trapper," by Stanley Harding, tells 

 you how to make traps for catching the 

 Muskrat, Beaver, Otter, Mink, Martin, Fish- 

 er, Skunk, Gopher, Squirrel, Raccoon. Opos- 

 sum, Fox, Wolf and Bear, also how to cure 

 and Tan Skins. Cloth. Contains 134 pages, 

 with 50 illustrations. Send 50c to OLIVER 

 M. DAVIE, Columbus, O., and get one pre- 

 paid. J. 2. t. 



RADIUM.— I am prepared to furnish 

 Radio-active substances of from one up to 

 one million activity, and also to make de- 

 terminations on Radio-active minerals at 

 reasonable rates. I have some of the finest 

 specimens of Radio-active ores to be ob- 

 tained, some of which have just been re- 

 turned from the St. Louis Exposition and 

 which I will exchange for fine Indian relics 

 or old U. S. coins, or other Radio-active ores 

 not in my collection. No collection of min- 

 erals or curios is complete without a series 

 of these extremely interesting sivbstances. 

 Have also for exchange a fine imported Ane- 

 roid barometer, both English and Metric 

 scales. L. V. CASE, Tarrytown-on-the Hud- 

 son, N. Y. 



WANTED.— Fresh skins or in the meat. 

 Great Horned Owl Cor subspecies), Snowy 

 Owl,, Ptarmigan, Mountain Partridge, 

 Hooded Merganser, Wood Duck, Sets of 

 Cuckoos, Am, Herring Gull, Least Tern, 

 Laughing Gull, Any Sandpiper or Plover. 

 What can you offer and what can you use? 

 ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester, N. Y. 



WANTED - - Five hundred white weasel 

 skins, also furs of all kinds. Good prices 

 paid. For sale in the flesh, one wildcat, per- 

 fect specimen, also Mergansers and Golden 

 eyes. J. 2. t. ALVAH G. DORR, Bucksport 

 Maine. 



FOR SALE— I still have about 1000 fine 

 sets left from my private collection which 

 will sell at reasonable prices. Also Ben- 

 dire's Life histories. Studer's Birds of North 

 America and Bird Magazines. Write for 

 list and prices. L. ERNEST MARCEAU, 

 274 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



FOR SALE.-"Nidologist," vols. 1. 2 and 3, 

 bound in half morocco. Good condition. 

 For best cash offer. CLIFTON E. WEB- 

 STER, Arthur, N. Dak. 



WILL EXCHANGE.-During coming seas- 

 on, sets collected in Texas for eggs not in my 

 collection. Full datas. Also butterflies and 

 moths. GEOF. GILES. San Antonio. Tex. 



WANTED.— Correspondence with people 

 who are interested in the painting of birds. 

 ALAN WRIGHT, 31 Kingsborough Ave.. 

 Gloversville, N. Y. 



