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THE OOLOGIST 



east, and he was making a study of 

 western birds. A few days previous 

 I had located three nests of tlie Calli- 

 ope in one tree, a black pine. Black 

 pine trees retain their cones for a 

 year or more. This tree was covered 

 with them. I took the professor 

 down and asked him to locate the 

 nests. He spent an hour without 

 avail. All the time the three were 

 within four feet of him. They so 

 closely resembled the cones that he 

 could not distinguish them apart. 



Whit Harrison, one of the real old 

 time ornithologists of La Credcent. 

 Minnesota, sends us the following clip- 

 ping from one of the local La Crosse, 

 Wisconsin, papers, which will be of 

 interest to all of the older readers of 

 THE OOLOGIST. Mr. Boehm was 

 known throughout the northwest as a 

 student of nature and a taxidermist of 

 unusual ability as well as a man hav- 

 ing real scientific attainments: 



"Albert Boehm, taxidermist, orni- 

 thologist and student of nature, is 

 dead. 



"Apoplexy called one of La Crosse's 

 well known men at the age of almost 

 84 years, at 3:19 o'clock this morning, 

 at his home, 512 Oakland street. He 

 liad lingered a week after being 

 stricken. His wife was at his bedside 

 when death came. 



"Mr. Boehm was in apparently good 

 health and active in his wark, for 

 which he was known throughout the 

 northwest, until his first attack on 

 Tuesday of last week, since which 

 time he gradually failed. 



"Over a thousand birds and animals 

 which at present adorn the new east 

 room at the La Crosse public library 

 were preserved and mounted by him 

 and it is considered one of the finest 

 exhibits of its kind in this part of the 

 country. Every bird from the small- 

 est humming bird to the largest hawk 



and eagle was stuffed by Mr. Boehm. 

 Even the snakes of all varieties and 

 species are the produce of his labor. 



"In his study of nature, birds, bees, 

 butterflies and the trees, hundreds of 

 children of this city became associated 

 with him. Whenever a dead bird or 

 animal was found, the thought which 

 was uppermost in many of their minds 

 was to take it to Mr. Boehm to have 

 him preserve and mount it. 



"A number of prizes were awarded 

 Mr. Boehm for various exhibits of his. 

 He received several awards from dis- 

 plays at the World's fair at St. Louis 

 in 1904. 



"Decedent was born in Germany on 

 December 4, 1829, and came to Amer- 

 ica when a small boy. He has resided 

 in La Crosse for the past 27 years. 



"Surviving are a widow and four 

 children. The children are Mrs. A. J. 

 Lange of Superior, Mrs. M. Rassmann 

 of Beaver Dam, Charles A. Boehm of 

 Neenah and Mrs. J. T. Riordan of 

 Marion, Ind. 



"The remains will be taken to the 

 home of a sister at Beaver Dam to- 

 morrow noon and interment will be at 

 that town. Previous to the sending 

 of the body, short services, conducted 

 by Rev. D. C. Jones, will be held at 

 the late home of the deceased." 



Migration Notes. 

 On the 13th of May, 1908, while 

 visiting at Pompton Lakes, N. J., I 

 witnessed one of those scenes most 

 deplored by the bird lover and over 

 which he can have but little or no 

 control. On the morning of the 12th 

 I found at the foot of a rather lofty 

 windmill the dead bodies of two Myr- 

 tle and three Chestnut-sided Warb- 

 lers, they having apparently hit the 

 blades of the wheel in their flight 

 over this section on their way north- 

 ward, as I found traces of bloodstains 

 on several of the steel blades upon 

 close inspection. 



