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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (7177)6/14/2005 1:47:33 AM
From: Snowshoe  Respond to of 12246
 
Jon, I recently stumbled on this old bird journal with info on egg collecting and was just flabbergasted! Here is the table of contents...

The Wilson Bulletin; Volume 1, Number 1; January 1889
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These old articles can be viewed in pdf format. Here are two that illustrate the collecting mania...

EXCHANGES AND WANTS
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excerpt:

I will give a set of Am. Flamingo
1-2, with data, for a set
Royal Tern 1-2 ;Cabot’s Tern I-
Sooty Tern I-I and Least Tern
or Black Tern 1-3 anti Forster’s
Terll 1-3. H. C. Campbell, Lansingburgh,
Rens. Co., N. Y.


Back Matter (Rare Arctic Birds' Eggs Cheap!)
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