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The JYatiiralists’ Companion. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Allow me to say that my “ad” in your 
magazine has paid me the best of any simi¬ 
lar one I ever inserted in any publication. 
I had about three or four thousand speci¬ 
mens for sale and -exchange, and have got 
rid of almost all so soon. Respectfully, 
G. F. WhitTEMore, Fitchburg, Mass. 
Dear Sir :—Thinking that the following 
might be of interest to yourself, your read¬ 
ers and advertisers, we concluded to write 
you. 
We wish to warn all collectors, dealers 
and every one against Asheey W. Kyes, 
of Merrill, Wise. Send no goods to him 
unless you have the ready cash from him, 
and then be careful. Although our loss is 
small, yet if he would break his contraCl 
for a small sum he would for $ioo or more 
if he had the chance. We will inform aii}^- 
one of the particulars if they wish. We 
affirm that said Kyes has defrauded us of 
money righteously due us, and in declara¬ 
tion of same affix our names and title. 
Chas. H. Dickinson, \ . DICKINSON 
Bdw’d F. Durkee, i & DURKEE, 
OCl. 25, 1886. Sharon, Wise. 
Some time last April I found a nest of the 
Red-tailed Hawk placed in the top of a 
beech tree, about fifty feet from the ground. 
Seeing the female hawk fly off the nest, I 
at once began to ascend the tree. Reach¬ 
ing the nest, I peered over the edge and 
saw one egg of an ash5^-white color with a 
few blotches of reddish-brown at the larger 
end. Not taking the egg this time, but 
awaiting a week later, and scrambling up 
the tree again, I saw another egg of a dirty 
white color, mottled over the entire surface 
■■"h light reddish-brown dots. The nest 
'■'ky affair composed of sticks and 
"^hers, rope, rags, grass, and a 
'ffiscribable material. I 
-^ed the tree. While 
a ne.st of the 
■"gs of a 
.ots of 
TS, 
Ohio. 
EXCHANGES. 
Tins column is open to all subscribers, who m , y insert 
exchanges free of charge. KO advertisements admitted to this 
column under any circumstances, and we shall reserve the 
right to insert no exchanges which are merely ijitended to se¬ 
cure cash purchasers.--Ed. 
G. D. Story, Carterville, Mo.--Finelarge 
mineral specimens to exchange for miner¬ 
als, fossils, petrifactions and curiosities. 
Frank Harris, La Crescent, Minn — 
Fine English beagle dogs and puppies, for 
natural history books or birds’ eggs. Send 
lists or make offers. 
Mrs. W. S. Hammand, Carthage, N. Y. 
—I have a choice variety of greenhouse 
plants which I will exchange for blooming 
bulbs of autumn blooming lillies and dent- 
zias. A generous exchange given. 
W. G. Talmadge, 37 Garden St., Hart¬ 
ford, Conn.—A 5 drawee!, black walnut cab¬ 
inet, valued at $3.00; double blade ash 
canoe paddle, 7 foot, value I1.50; 85 best 
blue paper boxes, value 75c.; Vol. i Young 
Oologist and Vol. i Tidings from Nature, 
neatly bound, value |i.oo, to exchange for 
advertising space in any paper of 500 or 
more guaranteed circulation. 
QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
Mrs. L. W.—Will some one please de¬ 
scribe the color of the eyes of the barred 
owl. 
We have a number of specimens sent us 
for identification, and being unable to iden¬ 
tify them, we have sent them to several 
specialists and will endeavor to give our 
readers the names of their specimens in the 
next issue. 
We will send this magazine for one 
year and a copy of Davie’s Egg Check 
List and Key to Nests and Eggs of N. 
A. Birds, for $1.25. The regular price 
of the book alone is $1.00. Thi^ Check 
List is finely illustrated with seven full 
page engravings, and contains about 
200 pages. 
