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NOW READY. 



My April list of cheap single eggs. Send 2c 

 stamp. My prices cannot be beaten. I have 

 the stock 'and will not be undersold. When 

 will dealers form a combine to keep prices uni- 

 form? Probably next fall. In the meantime, 

 secure eggs at prices that will astonish you. 

 10 cents each buys such eggs as Mew Gull, Kit- 

 tiwake, Franklin's. Royal Tern, Black Guilli- 

 mot, Leach's Petrel, Cormorant, Brown Peli- 

 can, Wilson.s Plover. Corn Crake. 15 cents 

 buys such eggs as Western Grebe, Californian 

 Gull. Fulmar, American Egret. Marsh Hawk, 

 etc. 25 cents each buys Caspian Terns, Stormy 

 Petrel, Glossy Ibis, Swainson's, Rough-legged, 

 and Harris's Hawk and other eggs. W. RAINE. 

 Bleecker St., Toronto, Canada. 



Special 60 Day Oilers, 



10 varieties perfect Indian Relics $ 90 



6 ... 50 



12 " " " -1 10 



5 " '■ " " 25 



20 " " '■ " 2 50 



15 " curiosities „ 27 



25 " " 50 



Best of all! 1 Spear Head, 2 Arrow Heads. 1 

 War Point, 1 Knife, perfect, 35 cents. Every 

 one of the above are perfect in every way sent 

 by return mail, for 60 days only. Remit by mon- 

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 prices of any goods you may need, 4 cents. 



W. PERRY ARNOLD, Stonnington, Conn. 

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Bird Skins Cheap. 



Below we name a few from our large 



stock. All first-class, with data and 

 measurements. 



Wood Duck, adult male, per skin $2 00 



Least Bittern, '• 1 00 



King Rail, " 1 00 



American Woodcock, " 75 



Klldeer, " 40 



Screech Owl, " 75 



Horned Lark, " 30 



Prairie Horned Lark, " 35 



Bobolink, " 20 



Summer Tanager, " 40 



Cardinal, "25 



Indigo Bunting, " 20 



Blue-headed Vireo, " 25 



Tree Swallow, " 20 



H. H. & C. S. BRIMLEY, 



Natural History 



Collectors and Dealers, 



RALEIGH, N. C, 



Collectors and Taxidermists! 

 ATTENTION! 



This is the season of the year when it is a pleasure to mount birds 

 This is the time to learn to preserve birds for ornament. 



If you are a thorough, practical Taxidermist, you do not need my 

 method of mounting. But there are thousands of boys and girls as weil 

 as men and women, who are anxious to preserve objects of Natural His- 

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 and instruction, with the great uncertainty attending the success of the 

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There are thousands in this country who do not care to take up taxi- 

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 agreeable work of mounting birds. 

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as a method easy to acquire and most satisfactory in its results. This process, with full in- 

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 birds will be sent on receipt of the price. 



Absolutely no tools required, excepting knife and tile. Any child can learn it in a single at- 

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Price, 75 cents, cash or postage stamps. 



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MORRIS GIBBS, M. [).. Kalmazoo, Mich. 



Relief Maps, 



Systematic Collections, 



FOR SCHOOLS OF ALL GRADES. 

 LANTERN SLIDES, ETC. 

 Washington School Collections. 



Minerals, Rocksand Invertebrate Animals. 



It Is safe to say that no collections of equal excellence have ever before been offered in this country at 

 so low a price ($2 each). Send for circular. 



EDWIN E. HOWELL, 612 17th St., N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C. 



NOW READY. 



My April Bargain List of Eggs of Birds of 

 Prey, in first-class sets, original datas, mostly 

 taken by our best known Oologists. Send two 

 cent stamp for list. The prices will astonish 

 you: but I must reduce my large stock before I 

 leave here in June for North- West Canada. No 

 decent offers refused. W. EAINE. 



Toronto, Canada. 



Send 1 5c stamps and you will receive my 

 I new Normal Catalogue of all European- 

 I palsearctic bird eggs, in over 600 numbers, 

 I with prices and number of sets for each 

 species. Send $5 bill by registered letter and 

 ! you will receive, by return steamer, a fine col- 

 i lection of European Birds Eggs, in- 

 I eluding Falco tinnunculus, etc., etc. 



HERMANN ROLLE, 

 INSTITUTION FOR NATURAL HISTORY, 

 Emdener-Str. 4, Berlin, N. W., Germany. 



To Dealers and Collectors: Will 

 furnish small Fossils. Shark's Teeth and Cork- 

 screw Fossils from Stafford Co.. Va., for $1.50 

 per 100. The fossils are something new and 

 unique. GEORGE W. KIRTLEY, Fredericks- 

 burg, Va. Ao-lOn-etaio. 



Camp Agassiz. 



A summer home for boys, conducted by 

 an experienced Naturalist. Good fishing 

 and boating with plenty of Natural History 

 work. For particulars address, 

 CHAS. B. WILSON, 

 Johns Hopkins University, 



Baltimore, Md. 



MINERALS and Indian Relics. List for 

 2c stamp. Isaac S. Kirk, Fremont, Pa.4yr 



CRYSTALS. 



E. H. HAWN, 



Collector. 



If your cabinet is not represented by a suit 

 of those superbly crystalized North Carolina 

 Quartzes, it is lacking in one of its most beau- 

 tiful and attractive features. 



Quartzes in Crystals, with the following 

 inclusions: Large movable water drops as 

 large as peas: Kaolin; Clay, different colors: 

 Wad; Chlorite; Micas; &c. 



Rutitated Quartz in all varieties, clear 

 and amethyst. This is a true gem stone, odd 

 and beautiful. 



Zircons in large, modified and small bril- 

 liant Crystals. 



Occasionally, the following can be sent out 

 in extra specimens: Bervls, Colinubite, 

 in piled groups of crystals: Gem Amethyst; 

 Rutile, blood-red, single Crystals: Hidden- 

 ite, the best to be had but none very large : 

 Kyanite, sky-blue Crystals: Oclopedrite; 

 Chlorite Crystals; Samarskite; Gum- 

 mite; Tourmalines, fine black with ter- 

 minations, also in groups of doubly terminat- 

 ed Crystals, rare; Garnets. Crystals and fine 

 pieces for cutting, peculiar tint; Monazite. 

 and others. 



I wish to call attention to some magnificent 

 Crystals and groups of Quartzes suitable for 

 Museums and College collections, one group 

 on hand weighing 40 pounds. 



Write for estimates on what you wish or 

 collections showing the entire Quartz range of 

 the State. 



Collections of any size sent on approval. 

 Address. . 



J. H. HUGG, 



Box 262. 



Blairsville, Pa. 



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