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THE OOLOGIST. 



From Photo by Allen 



A Remarkable Nest- 



A nest of the Baltimore Oriole, menf oaed in "A Study of Ne>;ts" on p;iare 3i)2, 

 October Oologist. "A string was woven into llie u'esi at one side, tind tlieu rar- 

 ried up to a higlier twig, thus keeping it from closing aS'it would other vvise have 

 done, so that the parent bird could not get iu." 



Notes from Audubon's Biography. 

 Fred W. Parkhurst. 



Part VII. 

 Mr. Audaboa called on Mr. Breed- 

 love, the Collector of Customs for New 

 Orleans, and presented to him his let- 

 ters from the Hon. Levi Woodbury, and 

 he at once assured Audubon that the 

 revenue cutter the "Campbell" would 

 be at his disposal within a few days, 

 but the service or other circumstances, 

 did not allow the arrival of the vessel 

 at New Orleans until late in March. Soon 

 after the commander of the Cam bell 

 called upon them, and they were soon 

 stowed aboard his tight little craft. 

 Proceeding down the Mississippi they 

 sailed through its southwest pass, 

 where they were joined by a vessel of 

 eight tons, as a tender for their excur- 

 sions along the shores. They reached 

 the bay of Galveston on the 24th of 



April, 1837, and ransacked not only the 

 island of that name, but all those on 

 that celebrated inlet of the Mexican 

 Gulf which they thought worth ^ihe 

 while. 



The "Campbell" was the tirst armed 

 vessel of the American Navy that had 

 entered the bay, and the fort at Galves- 

 ton returned the salute lired from the 

 great gun of the Cutter by twenty-six 

 tires. This was quite a surprise to Au- 

 dubon, and he was almost as much as- 

 tonished when he received a visit from 

 the Secretai-y of the Navy of the State 

 of Texas, with a written invitation to 

 proceed to the seat of Government, 

 Houston, which was about eighty miles 

 distant from their place of anchorage. 

 The ' Campbell" proceeded towards this 

 place about twenty miles, when, meet- 

 ing with a bar on which there was not 

 more than about four feet of water at 

 full tide, she again came to anchor. At 

 this place, which is called Red-Fish 



