VOL. I. No. 40. 



ALBION, N. T., NOVEMBER 2, 1895. 



Weekly, $1.00 a Year 



Wants, .Exchanges, and For 

 Sales. 



Brief special announcements, "Wants." "Ex- 

 changes," "For Sales." Inserted in this depart- 

 ment for 25c per 35 words. Notices over 35 words 

 charged at the rate of one-half cent per each ad- 

 ditional word. No notice inserted for less than 

 25c. Terms, cash with order. 



All copy must reach lis at least three days 

 prior to date of issue in order to insure inser- 

 tion in any given number. 



WANTED to Exchange.— First-class Bird 

 Eggs and Bird Skins and a few mounted birds 

 for a Camera in good ordor. Send your price 

 and receive my list, FRED K. WARREN. Hol- 

 lev, N. Y. 



I HAVE a few sets and many single eggs to 

 exchange for eggs not in my collection. J. S. 

 APPLETON, Sihii. Ventura Co., Calif. 



TO EXCHANGE. — A Bracket and fret saw. 

 with extra blades, patterns, impression paper, 

 and Manual of Fret Sawing and Wood Carving 

 with illustrations, for a second-hand pair of 

 Lattin's Climbers, unstrapped. The saw is 

 good as new, cost 81.25. Climbers must be in 

 good condition. EDGAR C. HUTCHINS. Clin- 

 ton, Hinds Co., Miss. 



FOR SALE or Exchange.— One looking glass 

 an hundred years old. it is 19x33. and frame 

 and all, 32 ',4x40',.;. Will sell for best offer. Also 

 a gold-filled watch, t he Due her Watch Case 

 Mfg. Co. and Hampden work ^—ladies' size- 

 only used a year, cost $30. Will sell for $20 or 

 a good guitar worth $-10. ORM AN C. AMES. 

 Blanchard. Maine. 



FOR SALE. — Homing Pigeons $1.50 per pair. 

 Turbits, $2.50 per pair, Fantails, $">.00 per pair. 

 French Lop-ears Rabbits, $6.00 per pair, An- 

 gora Rabbits, 50c per pair (young). SIDNEY 

 P. INGRAHAM. 28 Ml. Morris Ave.. New-York 

 City. 



TO EXCHANGE. — A Caligraph No. 2. Type- 

 writer, in good order, for specimens or offer. 

 E. O. BARNES, 1721 Thalia St., New Orleans. 

 La. 40-2t-O 



HOMING PIGEONS, best strains. Wagner, 

 Bowers, Husson, etc.. $1.00 to $2.00 per pair. 

 Common pigeons. 25c per pair. Correspon- 

 dence solicited. B. A. GARRETT. Hamilton. 

 N. Y. O 



TO EXCHANGE. — $5 Lancewood trout and 

 bass rod. reel, etc.: Stanlev m Africa, cloth. 

 HOOp.new, for stone Indian relics. L.SPR AGUE. 

 Box 310. Campello. Mass. 40-2t 



FINE sets for sale at one-third rates. Send 

 stamp for list. GEO. W. DIXON. Watertown. 

 S. D. 



"CEREMONIAL OBJECTS.— A few fine anci- 

 ent slate ornaments of different forms and types 

 Drawings and outlines sent to interested par- 

 ties. Full guarantee and data given. Address 

 HARRY B, MAPEL, Columbus Grove. O. 



EXCHANGE.— A new copy of Davie's laxi- 

 dermy. Bird Life in Labrador, Short's Birds of 

 Western New York. Notes on Na tural History 

 of Labrador and a line piccolo. Coues Key for 

 good 12 or 20 gaug shot gun. E. L. HALEY. 

 Rangeley, Maine. 



WANTED.— Butterflies from the Western 

 and Southwestern States. Offer rare exotics 

 for same from all parts of the world. LEVI 

 W. MENGEL. Reading, Pa. O 



WANTED.— Spear head tags in lots of 100 or 

 more. A. R. OGDEN. Broeton. N. Y. 



I ndian Stone and Flint Relics for sale. 38-3t 

 1 A. D. GRUTZMACHER. Mukwonago, Wis. 



WANTED.— Those having fossils named cor- 

 rectly, with geological formation, and locality, 

 to send list with lowest cash price. W. A. 

 STEARNS. Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. 



WANTED.— Meteorites. New End nude- 

 scribed ones especially desired. Good prices 

 paid for complete "falls"or 'finds. ."EDWIN E. 

 HOWELL, 612. 17th St. N.W.,Washington.D.C. 



T Perches for sale.— I have on hand 15.000 

 small T perches 3 inch base. I wish to dispose 

 of these at once and in order to do so have put 

 the price clear down to hard pan. Oak finished 

 5 cents each; pine, painted white, 4 cents each: 

 pine, not painted, 3 cents each. All sizes will 

 be turned to order. Sample sent prepaid for 10 

 cents in stamps. E. L. HALEY. Phillips, Me. 



FOR SALE.— Complete set of the Natural 

 History of New York. Botany. Zoology, Min- 

 eralogy, Geology. Palaaontoiogy, etc., with 

 many hundreds of plain and colored plates. 

 Low price. GEORGE P. HUMPHREY. Roch 

 ester. N. Y. 36-4t 



"NOMENCLATURE of Colors for Natural- 

 ists." Ridgway. I want a good second hand 

 copy at once. State cash or exr-h;;nge price. 

 FRANK H. LATTIN. Albion, N. Y. 



FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.— Malachite. 

 Crysocolla, Chalcedony, Quartz. Azurite, Mon- 

 azit: and r rank lin; Microscopic slides Inf'u 

 sorial earth 100 localities. Trap-tufa and 

 rocks for sale or exchange for other minerals 

 or Microscope slides or Infusorial ear , as. 

 PROF. ARTHUR M. EDWARDS. Newark. N. 

 ,T. O. & N. t f. 



ERNEST H. SHORT, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



Successor to the Retail, Mail and Catalogue 

 Business of 



FRANK H. LATTIN. 



Catalogues of Birds Eggs. Shells, (both 

 showy and scientific) Minerals. Relics, Curios. 

 Bird and Mammal Skins, and Mounted Speci- 

 mens and Supplies of all kinds for Entomolo- 

 gists, Oologists. Taxidermists, etc. Full stock 

 of Glass Eyes always on hand. Send stamp 

 and mention your specialty. 



EXCHANGE EXTRAORDINARY. 



Positively the Last this Season. 



I want at once, any eggs in full sets witli 

 data, and the following singles, A. O. U. Nos. 

 I to 315, 320 to 386, 392 to 405. 417. 418. 419, 428. 

 443, 447. 461, 464, 465, 475, 476, 478 to 487. 490 to 494, 

 496. 505. 508. 510, 512 to 528, 531, 542a, 546, 552, 554b. 

 563.574, 5S7. 591b, 597, 604, 612. 644. 619, 627 to 651. 

 653 to 702. 708. 713. 724, 727, 733 to 754. 



For these I will allow full rates (Lattin's '93 

 Standard Catalogue) in exchange for the Speci- 

 mens and Supplies mentioned below at the 

 prices quoted. All others taken at V- rates. 



For 7, 16, 27, 29, 32. 74. 103, 115, 172. 183, 181, 194. 

 228, 280, 292, 29:1a, 297a. 325, 329, 332. 343 . 348, 352, 

 360, 332, 364, 375. 419, 417. 487, 494, 531, 546, 597, 620, 

 627. 637. 641, 642, 648, 674, 681. 746 , 761 and 763. I 

 will allow 20 per cent above list rates if in 

 sets with data. 



No exchange of less than $2 will be accepted 

 unless 10 cents extra is enclosed for postage 

 and packing. 



I also want many foreign species. Write 

 what you have and wish in exchange. 



SUPPLIES. 



Small egg drill 



Medium egg drill 



Large egg drill 



White metal blowpipe 



Nickle-plated embryo hook. 

 6 checking lists 



BIRD'S EGGS. 



Baird'S wren 



Grey-tailed Cardinal . 



Lark Bunting 



Am. Herring'Gull,... 



Foreign. 



Pheasant 



Partridge 



Barbary Patridge 



Capecaille 



Blue throated Warbler 



Dartford Warbler 



SPECIMENS. 



The "Leader" shell collection. 61 species, 

 labelled with scientific name and local- 

 Giant Calif, sea urchin 



Giant Bahamas sea beaver 



Very large carnelian agate 



Polished carnelian agate, suitable fur ring 



Polished tiger-eye, Crocidolite, do 



Polished chalcedony, do 



Polished bloodstone, do ■ 



Polished onyx, do 



Collection of 10 varieties semi-previous 

 stones, cut and polished 



Electric stone, a great curiosity, emits 

 sparks when scraped with harder sub- 

 stances, a fine specimen 



Flexible sandstone, from Georgia, very cu- 

 rious, can be bent with ease ; fine speci- 

 men 



Collection of 25 varieties of named minerals 



Fine piece azurite and malachite 



Fine piece lodestone,wrtr/»e/fV 



Fine piece flourite. . . . . ..' 



Good piece celestite 



Quartz crystal, fine 50 to 



Chiastolite 



Collection of 15 varieties of named fossils. 



Gun Hint. Revolutionary relic 



Marine algiea, fine spray mounted on card 



Fine specimen ancient Costa Rican pottery 

 many hundred years old 



Fine spearhead Kentucky 



Fine spearhead, Indiana." 



Fine arrow point, Indiana 



Fine arrow point. Kentucky 



Fine arrow point, special forms 



Bright colored So. American Bird Skin 



Do., five all different 



BOOKS. 



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Cook's Birds of Michigan $ 75 



Stearns' Bird Life in Labrador 95 



Stearns' Natural History of Labrador l tin 



Short's Birds of Western New York 20 



Directions for Collecting Minerals 15 



All eggs must be strictly first class in every particular. If they are not I will take out eggs to 

 live times the actual cost of return postage for same and trouble, and return the balance. 



This offer expires Dec. 1st, and will not be repeated. Pack your eggs carefully and send to 



EST H. SHORT, Albion, N. Y. 



