2 1 2 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



show. A woman very often wears two or more birds on her hat or 

 dress, and often wears more than two whigs. In fact it is quite 

 customary to do so. I have often seen the heads of two birds on 

 the same hat. 



In my former remarks I (juoted from the testimony of the liven- 

 ing Post of April 7, where tlie writer says: " .Vly visit to the Nat- 

 ional Academy was spoiled yesterday. Not l)y viewing bad i)ict- 

 ures, either. It was by a young lady's hat. Tiiere was nothing in 

 her face to denote excessive cruelty. Indeed, she Avas very pretty, 

 and the attention she paid to the best j)ictures seemed to indicate 

 that her artistic taste was not uncultivated. But her hat ! The 

 front rim of this was decorated with the heads of over twent)- little 

 birds. I counted them at a risk of seeming to stare rudely. These 

 heads were simply sewed on side by side a closely as possible." 



A lady of my acquaintance communicates the following: 



" Last March a gentlemen residing on the Hudson River re- 

 ([uested a lady who had access to the fashionable ladies of New 

 York City to put in a ])lea for the birds. In a large gathering she 

 made this statement that a lady present had said that she and her 

 daughter had in use on their winter costumes, 44 birds." 



An article in one of our local newspapers last month under 

 the head "Boston Correspondence," mentioned that one lady wore 

 blackbirds in the festoons of her dress. 



Mr. F. M. Chapman sent to the Forest and Stream the follow- 

 ing list of native birds seen on hats worn by ladies in the streets of 

 New York. " It is chiefly the result of two late afternoon walks 

 through the uptown shoi)ping districts, and while very incomplete, 

 still gives an idea of the si)ecies destroyed and the relative numbers 

 of each : 



"Robin, 4; brown thrush, i; bluebird, 3; blackburnian 

 warbler, i ; blackpoU warbler, 3 ; Wilson's black-caj^ped fly-catcher, 

 3 ; scarlet tangler, 3 ; vv^hite-bellied swallow, i ; boheni'an wax- 

 wing, i; wax-wing, 23; great northern shrike, i; pine grosbeak, 

 i; snow bunting, 15; tree sparrow, 2; white-throated sparrow, i; 

 bobolink, i ; meadow lark, 2; Baltimore oriole, 9; purple grackle, 

 .5; bluejay, 5; swallow-tailed fly-catcher, i; kingbird, i; king- 

 fisher, I ; pileated woodpecker, i ; red headed woodpecker, 2 ; 

 gold-winged woodjjecker, 21; Acadian owl, i; Carolina dove, 1; 

 pinnated grouse, i; ruffled grouse, 2; quail, 16; helmet quail, 2; 

 sanderling, 5; big yellow-legs, i; green heron, i; Virginia rail, 

 i; laughing gull, i; common tern, 21; black tern, i; grebe, 7. 



