THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



37 



Though not domestic and caring 

 nothing- for the haunts of man vet 

 there are few birds more friendly and 

 less suspicious than the chewink. 

 Certain of these birds in our thickets 

 have certain individual traits, others 

 will act quite differently and by mak- 

 ing a close observation of this I can 

 as easily discern the individuals as I 

 can the various hens in the poultry 

 yard and almost as well as to pick out 

 Jones, Smith or Brown from across 

 the town street. Several of my che- 

 wink friends have inhabited a thicket 

 along - a creek-way all last year, are 

 there now and they will breed there. 

 Of the tomtits, black-capped and crest- 

 ed, I cannot feel so snre but I have 

 tried to get evidence of the migrating 

 of these birds and I cannot. They go 

 back and forth in the great woods in 

 winter and except on bitter, stormv 

 days, are always hunting and they, with 

 the downy woodpeckers, another 

 species that nests here and probably 

 the same individuals, are alwa}s in 

 company, typical bird waves but not 

 migratory. In fact, two or three pairs 

 of crested-titmice with their high-pitch- 

 ed "tweeter, tweeter, tweeter," fre- 

 quent more than elsewhere certain high 

 woods and roost in the neighboring 

 thickets winter and summer and may 

 be always found there ; They also nest 

 in the immediate vicinity. 



1 enclose you a picture of myself which 

 will tell you more about me than I 

 can tell yon. This is the way I am 

 all day. At night my parents put me 



Inflates Caterpillars. 



REPORT OF WIIJJAM ENGELHART, CORRE- 

 SPONDING MEMBER 2078. 2121 WEST 

 42ND, STREET, CLEVELAND, OHIO. 



I am twenty years old and have rheu- 

 matism and have not been able to walk 

 for about five years, and have not been 

 able to use my right hand for a year. 

 The only thing I find I have any pleas- 

 ure in, is in raising caterpillars and 

 watching the chrysalids and cocoons 

 "hatch" out and putting the butterflies 

 and moths in mounts, and selling some- 

 times a mount, to get some money to 

 get some other cocoons or butterflies. 

 Sometime in 1907 I received some 

 printed matter from The Agassiz Asso- 

 ciation which told about being a mem- 

 ber and I have been wanting to join. 



CRIPPLED BY RHEUMATISM, HE 

 STUDIES NATURE 



to bed, where I am till morning. I 

 am getting a little better and am sat- 

 isfied if I only have some cocoons or 

 butterflies or the nice caterpillars. 



I will do all 1 can for the association. 

 I think this coming spring I will be 

 able to inflate caterpillars perfect, and 

 I think a great many of the Members 

 will be glad if they can get one or two 

 inflated caterpillars of each kind of 

 butterfly and moth they have in their 

 collection for a few caterpillars that 

 they can find plentiful in their locality,, 

 and also by helping me by adding that 

 same kind to my collection. Just now 

 I have not much of anything to do,. 

 and in reply to your question of help- 

 ing me I must say you can do nothing 

 only let me know if I can exchange 

 some minerals for chysalids and co- 

 coons and caterpillars when there are 

 any, as I have a great deal of minerals 

 and they are of no use to me as I do 

 not collect minerals. 



