THE COLLECTORS' MONTHLY 



The Collectors' (Oonthly. 



k Monthly Ma?aj;irxe Devoted to the Study of 

 Ornithology, Oology and Natural History. 



CHARLES H. PRINCE, 



Editor and Publisher, Danielsonville, Conn. 



U. S. A. 



SUBSCRIPTION RATES 



Single Subscriptions, 

 Foreign " 



Single Copies, 



- 3°c. 



i2cts extra 



3c each. 



ADVERTISING RATES: 



One p;tge, one insertion, - - $5 00 



One Column, one insertion, - - - 2 75 



Half Column, one insertion, - - - 1 50 

 Editoral Page per in. one insertion, - 100 



One Inch, one insertion, - . - - - 60 

 Half-inch one insertion, ... 35 



JKFCash must accompany all advertisements. 



Write for special rates on standing advertise- 

 ments. 



Articles and items of interest in any branch of 

 Natural History solicited for publication. 



jgfif Address all communications to the Editor 

 and Publisher. 



Entered at the Post Office at Danielsonville 

 Conn., as second class mail matter. 



EDTORlALrS. 



Subscribers whose subscription expires with 

 this No. please note that your name will be cross" 

 ed off our list unless renewal is received at once. 



The American Garden and Popular Gardening 

 are now combined in one, — making the most at- 

 tractive as well as the most interesting of all 

 Monthlies on Gardening, that has come un.derour 

 observation. Everyone who is interested in gar" 

 dening for pleasure or profit, should not fail to 

 become a subscriber at the astonishingly low 

 price of $1 00 a year. Send to Rural Publishing 

 f'o. Times Building, N. Y. 



Collectors' who will show their enthusiasm and 

 interest 111 the Collectors' Monthly enough tjsend 

 us "free gratis" an electro of some fine bird, that 

 you would like to see appear with full description 

 in these columns. Who will be the first one to 

 have his name at the head of the list? 



James P. Babbitt, of Taunton, Mass., whose 

 •'ad" appears on last page of cover is known far 

 and wide as New England's famous dealer and 

 Taxidermist. 



Wanted: — Ten Subscribers who will volunteer 

 to take 1 column "ad," each issue for one year, 

 If you will do this we will guarantee to give you 

 a paper that can't be beat. Collectors' give us a 

 lift and "Boomer-up" if you want a good paper, 

 you must help make it so. 



J. H. Langille, of Kensington, Md., is about to 

 get out a new edition of his work, "Our Birds in 

 their Haunts." Anyone sending in their names 

 by Jan. 1st, 1892, can have the book containing 

 624 pages for $1.50, with 10 cents additional to 

 pay half postage. The work makes Oology a 

 speciality, and is a complete treatise on the 

 birds of Eastern North America, containing a 

 great deal of information, not found in other 

 books, especially the water birds, and is in all re- 

 spects, adapted to beginners in Bird Life. 



You who can engrave send us a fine Specimen 

 of your work — some species of Birds as a Christ- 

 mas present, and kill two Birds with one stone. 

 Help us and help yourself. See the point? Or if 

 you are not an engraver, buy one of your friend, 

 we will accept it just the same. 



Arthur's Home Magazine and this paper 1 year 

 for $1.30. price of Arthur's alone, $1.50. 



Wanted, back numbers of the "Auk," of July 

 1S90 and '91. All having such to dispose of we 

 will give good equivalent for same. 



We hope our Subscribers who receive an inti 

 mation that their subscription has expired, will 

 take no offence or delay in remitting the amount 

 due us, and send a years subscription in ad- 

 vance. Another thing to which we are obliged to 

 refer, is the fact that a large amount is due us in 

 the way of subscription arrears. Quite a number 

 have received the paper from the commencement, 

 and failed to remit any part of the subscription. 

 We know they are perfectly good for it, and with 

 some the amount is considered so paltry that 

 they do not think the want of it causes us any in- 

 convenience, but they forget that the aggregate 

 amount of these small itemsis animportant mat- 

 ter to us. We know from the complimentary 

 letters we are receiving from all quarters that our 

 publication is appreciated, among a class of read- 

 ers whose good opinion we appreciate, and that 

 many of our subscribers preserve each number 

 for reference. 



FIVE two cents stamps will get you a sample 

 of Arthur's Home Magazine Philadelphia. 

 Agents wanted. 



