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THE MUSEUM. 



Antelope, Mounted by C. K. Reed. 



rods jump the next fence into the field 

 and proceed to ist Bakers. 



To find six Bobohnks' nests of an 

 evening in this one field alone was 

 simply nothing. Wait until the dew 

 was on the grass and then go along 

 and scare the birds off their nests, and 

 follow up the queer furrows they made 

 in the wet grass, was the way we used 

 to do — at morning and evening. The 

 Ground Birds, Song Sparrows, and 

 Grass Finches, build on the ground, the 

 latter in bushes, the Field Sparrows 

 almost equally abundant in bushes; the 

 Blue bird with blue eggs in the holes of 

 trees and white eggs on the ground at 

 the foot of trees; the Purple Finches 

 and Indigo birds in the apple trees; 

 double-yolked Chipper Birds" eggs were 

 of common occurence there. King 

 Birds with white eggs and six in a 

 nest, though not all white. Yellow 

 Birds, and Yellow Warblers in trees; 

 the latter with two, and three stories. 



and nearly every species then had fre- 

 quently one, two, and three Cow- 

 birds eggs. 



Then Meadow Larks built on the 

 ground. Crow Blackbirds in nearly ev- 

 ery pine and apple tree. And oh yes! 

 House Wrens were a drug in the market 

 — the trees of the fields and the holes in 

 the piazzas around the houses, and nine 

 in a nest. Then we would occasional- 

 ly find a Butcher bird, but rare then as 

 now. Purple Finches and Indigo birds 

 as well as Cedar birds built in the apple 

 trees. And even White-bellied Swal- 

 lows, in the holes of trees in this very 

 field. W^e ha\'e now reached the out- 

 skirts of the 1st Bakers and enter that 

 then sacred and prolific precinct. Oh 

 what a field for the collector. Brown 

 Thrashers, on the ground and in trees 

 six feet high with six eggs, two or three 

 of them; Towhee Buntings; Scarlet 

 Tanager — in those days they used to 

 fairly swarm in the newly-plowed fields; 



