i8o PiELO Museum or Natural History — Reports, Vol. V. 



Woodpecker, Whito-brrastcd Nuthatch, Chickadee, Saow Bunting, 

 Blue Jay, lonM: excited Crows have disco v ered a Screech Owl in a 

 hoUow tree, and a Northern Shrike is shown surrounded by several 

 small birds (Redpolls, Siskins, etc.), which he has killed and placed on 

 thorns for future consumption. Group 2 — A winter scene on shore of 

 I-akc M: . shoi^-inR ice and open water. The proup includes Her- 



ring GuUii, ^url Scoter, LonR-lailcd Duck or Old Squaw, and Rcd- 

 brcastcd M< - rs. all familiar birds in this locality at that season. 



Group 3 — i'.i.. .-ifc at Fox Lake, Illinois. A summer scene, illustrating 

 the nesting habits < f a ntimlxr of the smaller marsh birds and includes 

 the Rtxl-win>:cd I^ rd, YcUow-headcd Blackbird, Bank Swallow, 



Black Tern, Gallinulc, Virynnia Rail, Sora Rail, Coot, and Least Bit- 

 tern. Many nests, cRgs and young birds arc show-n. Thirty specimens 

 of local fishes were mounted. There was also prepared, from a sldn in 

 liquid, an excellent mount of the monkey-fish, a strange eel-like creature 

 inhaliiting the California reefs. The large mounted sword-fish, which 

 was literally falling to pieces, was remounted and put into such shape 

 as to make a suitable display. Some time was devoted to the formula- 

 tion of the best possible scheme for the display of fishes, amphibians, and 

 reptiles in the new Museum building, in order that the exhibition aspect 

 of the work in the Di\-i.sion might be most efficiently directed to that 

 end. The EHvnsion of Entomologj' primarily directed its efforts toward 

 the preparation of insects and insect groups for exhibition. A life- 

 history exhibit of the mulberry silk-worm, containing fifty specimens, 

 illustrating the various stages of the silk-worm, including the eggs, 

 lanac, cocoon, and moths, was mounted on a wax mulberry branch. 

 This lifc-histor>' together with recently acquired photographs of the 

 silk-worm industr>' in Japan, and a selection of the enlarged modeb ol 

 the same insect, arc to be installed in one of the new A-cases. The 

 Assistant Curator a.sscmbled and determined all of the alcoholic repre- 

 sentatives of the scorpion, centipede and tarantula contained in the 

 Museum collection. This material was prepared for exhibition and 

 there are now ready for installation fifty-five mounts of these insects. 

 Some of the material collected during the year by this Division has 

 been prepared for exhibition and considerable progress has been made 

 in " -^--"j^ the casts of leaves, larvae, etc., for the tomato worm case. 

 Sii- . .ar>' progress ^-ith the reinstallation of the shell collection was 

 made only during the first five months of the year, during which time 

 one case was filled and completed, while all of the shells still to be in- 

 staHed were remounted on new tablets, thus completing at least one 

 important phase of this work. A portion of the systematic exhibition 

 collection in osteology was reinstalled in cases released from the Division 



