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THE NATURALISTS' COMPANION. 
J. Allen, Jr., Lake View, Ills., has 
our thanks for a file of his excellent 
magazine. Young Naturalist's Journal. 
Read every advertisement in this is¬ 
sue and you will secure some magnili- 
cent bargains. 
Our readers will please excuse us 
for devoting so much space to adver¬ 
tisements, it will not occur again. 
We can now supply our readers with 
all the back numbers of this paper, ex¬ 
cepting No. 1, at live cents each. 
We w'ill print 3 ’our name, address 
and business on 100 good envelopes 
and send post-paid for 40 cents silver. 
The finest natural history journal 
yet received is the Ornithologist and 
Oologist, Frank B. Webster, publisher, 
Boston. Price $1.50. 
Parties in want of first-class bird 
skins we w^oidd recommend them to 
Fred C. Lusk, a thriving taxidermist 
of Holley, N. Y. See advertisement. 
We will send 100 sheets of unruled 
writing paper (blocked) post-paid for 
25 cents. Just the thing for business 
men and collectors to make notes on. 
We have just received a fine lot of 
bird skins of R. E. Rachford. Grigsby’s 
Bluff, Texas, to wdiom we would re¬ 
commend our taxidermy friends. 
J. E. Jones, St. Johnsbur}-, Vt., will 
soon start on his regular collecting- 
trip to the sea shore, and is prepared 
to fill orders for gull’s eggs, seaweeds, 
mosses, shells, sword fish sw'ords, and 
general curiosities. 
The Natukalist’s Compaxion and 
the Collectors’ Science ]Monthly,a large 
magazine devoted to philately, numis¬ 
matics and general natural history, 
both one year for 60 cents. The price 
of the Monthly alone is 75 cents. 
The Naturalist’s World, Percy Lund 
& Co., publishers, llkley, England, is 
by far the neatest and most interest¬ 
ing of any natural history journal re¬ 
ceived from a foreign country. 
For only $1.00 we will send Davie's 
famous Egg Check List and Key to 
N. A. Birds, describing the nests, eggs 
and breeding habits of every North 
American bird, and one years’ sub¬ 
scription to the Companion. The reg¬ 
ular price of the book alone is $ 1 . 00 . 
In looking over a number of natural 
history papers recenth', the prices 
ranging from 50 cents to a dollar, -we 
find that our magazine contains moi’c 
reading matter than any other Ameri¬ 
can natural history journal priced 
less than one dollar. 
The stingray is the natural enemy 
of San Francisco oysters, and his ap¬ 
pearance on the Atlantic coast is al¬ 
most as much to be dreaded as the 
five-fingered starfish that destroys the 
beds of eastern waters. The fish has 
a powerful pair of jaws, with which he 
considers it no trick whatever to smash 
the shell of an oyster into powder, af¬ 
ter which he sucks the meat into his 
stomach and discards the rocky debris. 
New Sharon, Ia., June 14th, ’86. 
Dear Editor:— 
I have perused the contents of No. 
11, Vol. 1, carefulU and have no hesi- 
tency in saying I think you are at the 
front giving us the most information 
for themone}^ of any paper! have taken 
or seen. My subscription runs out 
with the August number, I believe, 
but 3-011 can count on me for another 
term, sure. I am, as ever, one of the 
Companion fandh-, R. D. GOSS. 
We could print hundreds of testi¬ 
monials like the above, had mc space. 
