THE OSPREY. 



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a part}' to the island since the storm, and 

 as vet the seas in the vicinity of Cobb's 

 Island are running" so ver}- hig-h that it 

 is reall}- perilous for a boat of small di- 

 mensions to attempt the trip. * * * 



''We found about twenty persons on 

 the island, including- the members of the 

 life-saving station, all of whom were in 

 a very sorrowful mood on account of the 

 almost entire destruction of the island 

 and the property thereon. One of the 

 most prominent citizens of the island 

 took his loss in the most philosophical 

 manner. He believes that this, as well 

 as the previous storms encountered on 

 the island during the past few years, are 

 onlv Divine warning- for them to vacate 

 the island entirely, and he thoug-ht it 

 would not be long- before Cobb's Island 

 would be many feet under the surface of 

 the broad Atlantic ocean. While onl}- a 

 few of the houses were washed entirely' 

 away, all of them suffered more or less 

 damag-e. The water was fully a foot 



deep over the entire island, and the seas 

 which rolled were from 40 to 50 feet in 

 height. 



'•The Baltimore Cottage * * "^^ 

 which was previous to the storm seventv- 

 five yards from .the beach, is now a total 

 wreck, being- pounded to pieces b}' the 

 immense seas which swept the island. 

 Several other cottag-es were about half 

 buried in the sand. * * * The hotel 

 is a complete wreck, * * * About 

 three feet of sand stands in the dancing- 

 pavillion on the first floor. The bar 

 room, billiard room, bowling- alley and 

 several other small buildings were 

 tumbled down in one heap and broken up 

 so the}' were of no use whatever. There 

 are several wells of fresh water now cov- 

 ered by the ocean that were previously to 

 the storm in the barn-yard of Mr. Cobb, 

 used for watering- his stock. The island 

 was reduced fift}- acres, leaving- only 

 about twenty-live in sig-ht at low 

 water." 



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Home of the Loggerhead Shrike. 



BY FRANK M. WOODRUFF, CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



HILE in the field last season for the 

 purpose of collecting- notes, and 

 specimens for g-roup-work in the 



HOME OF THE LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. 



Chicago Academy of Sciences, accom- 

 panied by my friend, Mr. Thos. J. Staley, 

 who acted in the capacity of photog-ra- 

 pher, we were fortunate in obtain, 

 ing- a number of fine neg-atives of 

 the nests and young- of several of 

 our resident birds. The photo- 

 g-raph which 1 here represent of 

 Laiiius Iifdoz'iciauus, was taken on 

 the Phillips farm at Worth, 111., 

 about fourteen miles from Chica- 

 g-o. The nest was in a corner of 

 an old hedg-e of osag-e orang-e 

 { Madura aiirantiaca)^ and about 

 eig-ht feet from the ground. It 

 took considerable time and pa- 

 tience to build up a platform of 

 fence boards and old boxes to en- 

 able us to reach the nest. 



The narrow object with a lon- 

 gitudinal white stripe, which lies 

 almost ag-ainst the main branch 

 to the right, and about midway- 

 between the upper surface of the 

 nest and the limb above, is the 

 half-eaten body of a young- g-arter- 

 snake ( Eutaiiiasirtah's), which the 

 parents of this family of butchers 

 have hung- up for future use. 



