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Bird - Lore 



WITH WINGS HELD FAST BY KURUOCK HOOKS 



many years before. So, while I have fre- 

 quently loaned the negatives to ornitho- 

 logical friends for lantern-slide making, 

 I have not offered them for publication. 

 I have, however, recently used one of them 

 for illustration of the mistakes of instinct in 



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Nolc also the hookcil spini-s 



my text-book of General Biology, and as the 

 editor of BiRD-LoRE has thought that the 

 others would be of interest to its readers, 

 I have gladly offered them for its columns. 

 — James G. Xeedham, Ithaca. X. Y. 



Some Interesting Reminiscences 

 of Audubon 



I perfectly recollect the 

 world-renowned naturalist, John 

 James Audubon, whom, as a 

 boy, I visited at his home in 

 what is now Audubon Park, 

 Now York. My grandmother, 

 Sarah Hazzard, widow of Major 

 William Wig Hazzard of South 

 Carolina, in the Continental 

 .Army, having moved to New 

 York, purchased the Brockholst 

 Livingston estate of twenty acres, 

 on the Hudson at goth Street, 

 where my mother, while visiting 

 her, died, leaving me to her ten- 

 der care. .\nother daughter, 

 Mrs. Horace Wal<l<>. li\cfl with 



