THE MUSEUM. 



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THE MUSEUM. bottoms so that they would not hold 



^,„^,^_„______^„_______^______ water; then cut in the cover a circular 



A Monthly Magazine devoted to Ornithology, hole, an inch or more in diameter. 



Oology, Mollusca, Echinodermata, The covers we painted black and be- 



Mineralogy and Allied r .1 • . , . , , , 



„ ^-^ tore the pamt was dry sprinkled on 



Sciences. . "^ j r 



,^,.,^,^,„,„,^,^,^,^,^„ dirt so as to give them a dirt appear- 



Walter F. Webb, Editor and Manager ance. 



Albion, N. Y. Here then was a real beetle trap for 



Corresijondence and items of Interest on above top- When these CanS Were baited and bur- 

 ies, as well as notes on the various Museurns of the -j-iU ji 1 -^i .1 

 World— views from same, discoveries relative to the leu in the ground level With the SUr- 

 handling and keeping of Natural History material. , ii_ i_ 1 



descriptive habits of various species, are solicited lace, the beetles, attracted by the Smell 



from all. r , • . 



Make articles as brief as possible and as free from of the bait dropped in but Were Un- 

 technical terms as the subjects will allow. All letters ' ^^ 



Will be promptly answered. able to drop out. Nor could they 



TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. crawl out for most of the carrion 



Single Subscription si.oo per annum beetles are rather clumsy walkers and 



Sample Copies 10c each 



but few of them would be able to fly 



ADVERTISING RATES. . i-u 1 •. j -.l 



.5 cents per Nonpareil line each insertion. Twelve O"*. TheSe CanS Were baited With 



lines to the inch. No discounts. u- j „,„„* Thic; vvac tVip pacioci- trv 



Cash must accompany all orders. L)''<^ meai. 1 niS WaS ine easiesi lO 



Remittances should be made by Draft, Express or • t 1. iU- r ii_ 



Post Office Order or RegLstered Letter. proCUre, Since 1 at thlS SeaSOn of the 



Unused U. S. Postage Stamps of any denomination . . , , , . , , , . 



accepted for small amounts. year (Spring) had many skinned^jbodies 



MUSEUM PUB. CO.. from my work in Taxidermy. The 



ALBION, ORLEANSCO., N.Y. , ., , r j r ^u- r 



beetles seemed very fond of this fare, 



Entered at Albion post -o;0i<:€ as second-class mail matter which I Consider the verv best bait for 



them. The bait should be changed at 



A Carrion Route. , , c j ^ i ,. 



least once in hve days as it loses most 



Doubtless the above title sounds of its smell m that time and therefore 



queer, but as will be seen it applies in ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ 

 every way to the subject to be treated. ^^^^^ ^^^^_ ^^^ ^;^j^ ^^^ exception 



Early m May a friend, whom we ^^^ ^^^^ ^,^^ ^^^ ^^^^ distributed in 



will call H., and myself conceived the n 1 1 • ^i,^ a^ -m^^ i^Cf 



' -' likely places in the woods. We left 



idea of establishing what we called a c fu ■ a, . „<- ,„ n,^ 



"^ one of the canines on a dry spot in the 



carrion route in order that we might -,,, r ,, u- i, _ 



, ° middle of a small swamp, which prov- 



fiU vacancies in several families in our 1.1 j 1 i- 



ed to be a good location. 



insect cabinets. T-i.u tt ir <. • j i ■ v 



Either H. or myself tried to visit 



Any Coleopterist who has collected ., ,.£, .1 ^i,- ,, * •> 



^ ^ the different places on this "route 



around carrion at all knows the abun- , ^^^,T..\ ^u -4. 1 



every dav. With the cans it was only 



dance of beetles to be found there at " i. ^ 1 a ^u a 



necessary to take on the cover and 



the right season of the year. Having ^ .,, j 1 u ■ ..1 



° . -^ . . turn the can upside down when oeetles 



observed this fact from occasional vis- . . -i. u n t ^ <.u 



and bait would roll out together. 



its to deceased dogs and cats H. and „, ,^ ,,. .1 . ii ■ *u 



'^ Then after putting the beetles in the 



myself procured two canines and one , .,,. , ^^, ,, , •. 1 j 



•^ ^ killing bottle the bait was replaced. 



cat, the only ones to be found. ttt-^u .11 j ^ ..u t.u a 



■' . With the dogs and cat the method 



Another idea furnished more bait. , ,, ^. ., ,•„ 



of collecting was necessarily dmerent. 



We took several baking powder cans t-- ,. 1 1 j c u ^ u ^u 



° ^ First we looked carefully to see wheth- 



and punched small holes through the , ,, .. j j 



^ ° er any beetles were on top and around 



