THE OSPREY. 



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atmosphere, light and shadow, the nature and com- 

 plexity of the problems to be solved begin to appear. 



In the installation of living creatures a systematic 

 arrangement is a practical impossibilit} . The differ- 

 ent orders must be placed where their representatives 

 will live longest and most comfortably. In the de- 

 signing of the Zoological Park, it has been possible, 

 however, to accomplish an end which we believe 

 may be viewed with satisfaction. The various col- 

 lections of birds, filling ten aviaries and buildings, 

 are to be disposed in two great groups, one in the 

 north-central portion of the I'ark, and the other 

 around the large pond which lies under the shelter 

 of the timbered ridge near the southwest entrance. 



A reproduction of the architect's preliminary de- 

 sign of the proposed Bird House is presented in the 

 frontispiece of this magazine. It has been planned 

 to afford, both within and without, a great amount 

 of cage room for the benefit of the perching birds, 

 Parrots, Lories, Macaws, Pigeons and Doves, diving 

 birds. Owls and Hawks, and the general ovmimn 



sratherum of birds which cannot well be accommo- 

 dated elsewhere in separate collections. The interior 

 of the building, which on the ground is shaped like a 

 T with the top toward the north, as shown in the 

 engraving, will aftord 330 lineal feet of cage room, 

 on a large portion of which small cages will stand in 

 three tiers. 



The outside of the building affords room for 332 

 lineal feet of cages for Hawks, Owls, the hardy perch- 

 ing birds, and several others that with proper shelter 

 can endure our winters There will be six large and 

 handsome dome cages, similar to that shown in the 

 illustration. The interior of the building will be 

 made attractive by the introduction of plants and 

 vines, descriptive labels, diagrams and other aids to 

 a proper appreciation of the living inhabitants of the 

 cages. Perhaps the most interesting feature of the 

 whole interior will be the diving birds and their huge 

 glass tank filled with water, in which one of the most 

 interesting sights of the whole bird world will be dis- 

 tinctly seen. 



ON ISOLATED ALASKAN ISLANDS. 



GEO. G. CANTWELL, JUNE.AU. 



T was not till late in the afternoon of June 8, '97, of boulders and immense slabs of granite. Into this 

 that final arrangements had been made with the mass of rock and foaming water we rode on the top of 

 Indians, and the outfit aboard, that the big canoe an immense swell. At the right moment one of the 



was pushed into the water, 

 and my long planned trip 

 to Egg Island had begun. 

 Two good Hiada guides 

 had charge of the craft that 

 contained our provisions, 

 tents, ammunition and pre- 

 servatives, and boxes for 

 specimens. Our destination 

 was a famous bird rookery 

 in the open sea, 200 miles 

 west of Fort Wrangell, an 

 island often visited by the 

 Indians for birds and eggs, 

 but so far as I could learn 

 but one party of white men 

 had ever landed there be- 

 fore. 



An exciting trip of five 

 days through the swells of 

 the Pacific brought us to 

 the shores of the island, 

 where the breakers were 

 hurling themselves with a 

 deafening roar against the 

 precipitous cliffs. The 

 landing at the part of the 

 island that most resembled a beach was the most dif 



HORNED PUFFIN 



Indians jumped out on a 

 flat rock where the reced- 

 ing water left him high and 

 dry. Each time the canoe 

 came in we handed some 

 of the luggage out to him, 

 piece at a time, till the 

 canoe was empt\' ; then we 

 hauled the wily craft itself 

 upon the rocks above the 

 tide, where we made our 

 camp and congratulated 

 ourselves on our safe ar- 

 rival. 



In a few minutes we 

 gathered a quantity of nice 

 fresh gulls' eggs from the 

 rocks behind the camp, 

 which made us a most de- 

 licious meal. The remain- 

 der of the day was spent 

 in making our camp com- 

 f or table, putting up a 

 brush "taxidermy shop," 

 and gathering cedar boughs 

 for a bed. 



While I prepared supper 

 the two Indian boys tramped about the island, and 



AT ENTRANCE TO NEST. 



ficult part of the entire trip. It was a most wretched returned shortly with a number of Guillemots and 

 landing place, a break between the cliffs, strewn with Puffins. They had surpri.sed the birds in a cave 

 the broken fragments from above — a perfect jumble among the rocks, and had killed them with clubs. 



