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know that on December 3, 1918 I con- 

 fiscated 122 dozen individual aigrettes and 

 the back skins and aigrettes of six Herons. 

 Total valuation was $1,379.50. These 

 were taken from Phil Levy, Hot Springs, 

 Arkansas." 



Olive Thome Miller 



Mrs. Harriet Mann Miller, better known 

 as Ol've Thorne Miller, died at her home 

 in Los Angeles, California on Chn'stmas 

 Day, 1918. 



Mrs. Miller was one of the first women 

 in America to attain distinction as a stu- 

 dent of bird-life and as an author of bird 



twenty years in Chicago. Later her home 

 for a long time was in Brooklyn, New York. 

 Several years ago she moved to California, 

 and there, in a little bungalow in a quiet 

 part of Los Angeles, she passed her remain- 

 ing years surrounded by trees and shrub- 

 bery, which furnished homes for many of 

 the birds she so much loved. 



I shall long remember her as I saw her 

 in this home in 191 2, a small, quiet woman 

 with an alert mind, sitting in a rocking- 

 chair on the veranda, and half playfully, 

 half seriously seeking to frustrate my 

 efi'orts to take a photograph of her. 



Mrs. Miller was a writer of many maga- 

 zine articles, and during her life delivered 



JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASS AT BRIGHTON, NEW JERSEY 



books. During 1896-1903 she was an 

 active member and worker with Miss 

 Emma Lockwood and others associated 

 in the work of the New York State Audu- 

 bon Society. Her interest in birds which 

 began at an early date, continued until 

 the time of her death in her eighty-eighth 

 year. 



She was born at Auburn, New York, 

 June 25, 1831. After her marriage to 

 Watts Todd Miller, at Rock Island, 111., 

 Aygust 15, 1854, she resided for the next 



numerous lectures. Her books, some of 

 which are still sold extensively, are as fol- 

 lows: 'Nimpo's Troubles,' 'Little Folks in 

 Feathers and Fur,' 'Queer Pets at Marcy's,' 

 'Little People of Asia,' 'Bird Ways,' 'In 

 Nesting Time,' 'Four-handed Folk,' 'Little 

 Brothers of the Air,' 'Our Home Pets,' 

 'Bird-lover in the West,' 'True Bird Stor- 

 ies,' 'With The Birds in Maine,' 'Kristy's 

 Queer Christmas,' 'The Children's Book of 

 Birds,' 'First Book of Birds,' and 'Second 

 Book of Birds.' 



