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Born October 12, 1877, Mr. Ferry developed early in life a fond- 

 ness for natural history pursuits and, before entering the prepar- 

 atory school at Andover, Mass., had gathered together a collection 

 of North American birds that would have done credit to a much 

 older person. 



Graduating with the engineering class of the Sheffield School of 

 Yale in 1901, he later became Secretary of the Sheffield Branch of 

 the Y. M. C. A at New Haven, Conn. In 1902 he took up the mer- 

 cantile calling and acted as a traveling salesman for two years. 

 During the summer of 1905 he received an appointment with the 

 Biological Survey and collected that season in California. Feb- 

 ruary 1, 1906, he joined the staff of the Field Museum of Chicago, 

 under Prof. Chas. B. Cory, curator of the Department of Zoology, 

 which institution he served faithfully and well up to the time of his 

 death. 



His museum experience being the longest was perhaps most 

 prolific of results, several trips of some duration being planned 

 and executed by him during that time, chief among which may be 

 mentioned an expedition to Central America and northern South 

 America during the winter of 1907-'08. 



This was followed the suceeding year by another to the islands 

 of the Caribbean Sea, which proved unusually successful, adding 

 several noveltiesi new to science among the birds, a honey creeper, 

 Coereha fenyi. being named by Prof. Cory in honor of the col- 

 lector. 



The readers of the Bulletin will remember the subject of this 

 sketch by the very excellent paper of his, " The Spring Migration 

 of 1907 in the Vicinity of Chicago," appearing in the March num- 

 ber of 1908. Additional articles have been published by him in 

 " The Auk " and " The Condor," and at the time of his death he 

 was working out a paper based upon the results of the Costa 

 Rican, or Central American, trip previously mentioned. Tall in 

 stature and of a dignified and courteous bearing, Mr. Ferry united 

 to these an amiable turn of mind. He was a young man of exem- 

 plary habits and high ideals, and bid fair to achieve distinction as 

 well in the science of birds. His loss to Illinois and to ornithology, 

 therefore, will be keenly felt. n. t. g. 



REVIEWS.— BIRD MAGAZINES. 



Ornithologische Monatsschrift, Vol. XXXIV. 12 Nos. — This 



German monthly always contains interesting matter and shows 



that there are new things to be found in the life histories of birds 



even in old fields of work. The main object of the society, which 



