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schoolmaster, locating near Frogmore, S. C. in the palmy 

 clays of the "O. and O.," he wrote many entertaining and 

 instructive papers, seeming to see the joke in everything 

 IX)ssihle. In July. "88, the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 emploved liini to collect in Florida at $75 per month and ex- 

 penses to Titusville. He was to look up certain species and 



\oung Black Vultures (C.atliarista atrata) Asleep in their Nest. 

 By W. J. Hoxie. 



visit certain localities at his own expense from there. At 

 once he met difficulties : predatory mammals, birds and insects 

 •made away with nearly all trapped specimens, sometimes trap 

 and all : skins were devastated by small ants and gigantic 

 cockroaches ; expenses exceeded salary ; so reducing his bag- 

 gage to a minimum, he departed for Cape Canaveral with 100 



