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ORNITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. 18-No. 8 



Consistency. 



A frisky old maulen, of yeary, two and forty; 

 Thouglit to kill I>iids fearfully naughty, 

 Witli soul overwrought with fictitious piety 

 She became a hright star of the Auduhon Society. 

 She pr*;aehed of its virtues, by day and by night. 

 Anil to deal out its tracts was her special delight; 

 She donned its toij badge (for fifty cents bought). 

 And by her appeals great exeitement was wrought. 

 She called on the farmers, the butchers, the bakers, 

 She appeared to the sportsmen and al] the law- 

 makers, 

 She spun out such yarns, anil seemed such a saint, 

 'Twas enough to make mortals at sight of her faint. 

 Now, it chanced, that our lot was cast in her way. 

 And we'll lisp unto you what we saw in one day. 



In the morning she rose from her eider down bed, 

 And with eleimiant ivory scratclied the top of her 



head ; 

 Xext she put on her jacket of chamois skin made, 

 Which with bones from the whale was artistically 



stuyc<I ; 

 Then with KAN<iAUoo boots so shapely and neat, 

 With poui'OKsE strings tied, she covered her feet; 

 With a twist an»l a turn, and a terrible rustle, 

 A FoUEsr and stkkam was attached for a bustle; 

 it faded from sight under azure blue gown, 

 M''hich was daintily trimmed with snowy swan's 



down ; 

 With a toktoi.se shell comb she adorned her gray 



hair, 

 Put MrSK on her 'kerchief and went down the stair; 

 At the table, a chair lined with hii>e was her seat, 

 And a newly made ro.v niat lay at lier feet; 

 While she ale for her breakfast, grouse covered 



with sage, 

 She talked to a mirl> that was conjined in a caf/e ! 

 Next TAiinv, received from her mistress, l-iml words, 

 (By the way, she's a rattler at kltUng small birds.) 



For the morning walk out, it was early spring, 



The s*H"HREi. lined sealskix seemed quite the 



thing; 

 A pin carved from walklts tusk, both ancient and 



neat, 

 Was used to secure it, where the collar entls meet; 

 An osTRH H tip leather was on hat front and back, 

 And a horn handled umbrella she drew from the 



rack ; 

 A 'gatok skin satchel with care she did till, 

 With circulars, petitions, and porcupine quill; 

 She paused as she placed her hand on the door, 

 And her eye caught a tiger skin stretched on the 



floor; 

 Her WING feather fan she surely must take 

 To forget her kid gloves would be a mistake; 

 An onUir for dinner, ■• venis()N and quail," 

 And WOODCOCK for supi)er form part of our tale. 

 Then began the day's work, in behalf of the birds, 

 An<l the maiil's pleading voice once more was heard. 

 Now as we leave her, tliis thought rushes in. 

 Does not this whole movement have a mightij thin 



skin? 

 Some people think thvji can do as they please, 

 And bring every one else down on their knees; 

 But in the long run they surely will find. 

 The Ornithologist ani> Oologist is not one of the 



kind. 



Brief Notes. 



A Lecontcs Sparrow, female, was taken by W. W. 

 M'orthington at ^apelo Island, Ga., Feb. *22, "SS. 



Because O. & O. fails to reach you don't conclude 

 it has retired. There is lots of vitality still on hand. 



J. M. Wade, former proprietor of the O. itO., in 

 his Fibre and Fabric, has a paper which fills the bill. 

 Success to it. 



I\Ir. II. W. Ilensbaw of Boston, it is reported, has 

 sold to the British Museum his entire ornithological 

 collection for .$10,00ii. It is a great pity that there 

 was not public spirit enough to purchase it and re- 

 tain it in this country. 



A. G. Wallace, sends us a sketch of a trout taken 

 Julys. Length, 18 inches; depth, 4 inches; width, 

 two and a half inches; weight, three and one-tourth 

 pounds. This bird fell the victim to a Jenny Lind 

 Fly and three and three-fourth ounce Nichols split 

 bamboo nnhthree miles above Hell Gate camp, Dead 

 Diamond Run, N. H. 



Tlie article, " Shore Birds of Cape Cod," by .John 

 C. Cahoon, is of value to the shooting fraternity. 

 An extra edition containing it will be printed and 

 furnished for twenty-five cents. 



Our foreign subscription list we hope will increase. 

 We shall mail a number of sample copies to collect- 

 ors in England, and would call their attention to the 

 O. itO., as tlie most popular ornithological magazine 

 published in the States. Mr. Hurst of Birmingham 

 (see advertisement), is our foreign agent. 



Mr. John C. Cahoon has organized a sporting asso- 

 ciation known as the Bristol Branting Club. Its 

 members are from Boston, Taunton, and New 

 Haven. They have completed their arrangements 

 for the season's sport at Monomoy Island Club 

 House. 



We recently received the following Albinos: 

 IJlue Jay— '^hot near Lynn. Mass., about 1S5T. Pure 

 white, with slight pearly indications cf the regular 

 markings. 



Unsty Blackbird— Male, Burlington, Iowa, May, 

 ISSS. Head white, rest of plumage natural, except 

 two primaries on each wing, and a few scattering 

 feathers which are white. 



White- winged Scoter, male— Taken near Portland, 

 Me., May i>, '8S. Ilird pure wliite, with gray markings 

 on head, neck, and upper tail coverts. A remark- 

 able specimen. 



Migratory Thrush (Robin),— Taken at Marlboro, 

 Mass , May, '88. Pure white, excepting one tail 

 feather which is very dark, and a few scattered 

 brownish markings- 



The Jay and Blackbird are the specimens de- 

 scribed by Mr. F. A. Bates before the Boston Scien- 

 tific Society. (July O. & O.) 



Just before going to press we bad tlie pleasure of 

 opening a very fine lot of rare Mexican Bird-skins, 

 fromdncof our most enterprising collectors. Among 

 them we noticed two varieties of Trogons, Parrots, 

 Jays, Ac, some of which are almost unknown to the 

 nuijority of our ornithologists, except through books. 



