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]\Iuseum and their friends, attended the lectures and seemed to 

 find as much to interest them as did the young people. 



April i6. — "Ants, Bees and Wasps," by Dr. William Morton 

 Wheeler. 



April 23.— "Sea Beach at Ebb Tide," by Mr. George H. 

 Sherwood. 



April 30.^" How to Study the Reptiles," by Dr. Hermon 



C. BUMPUS. 



May 7. — "Some Common Rocks and What They Mean," by 

 Dr. Edmund Otis Hovey. 



May 14. — "The American Indians and How They Live," by 

 Dr. Livingston Farrand. 



May 21.— "The Home Life of Birds," by Mr. William 

 Dutcher, Chairman of National Committee of Audubon So- 

 cieties. 



Mr. Frank M. Chapman, Associate Curator of Mammalogy 

 and Ornithology, spent the months of April, May and June in 

 Florida and the Bahamas hunting for Paroquets, Flamingoes and 

 other birds and their nests to complete the Museum's series of 

 several forms. Before leaving Florida for Nassau, Mr. Chapman 

 wrote as follows : 



Let me now report briefly on the results of my Paroquet 

 reconnaissance. I took the steamer at Kissimmee April 12 and 

 reached Bassinger, at the end of the line, the 14th. Frequent 

 stops and opportunities to converse with natives showed that 

 the Paroquet is practically extinct throughout the Kissimmee 

 River region. From Bassinger we rode 20 miles south to Taylor 

 Creek and camped on the border of the Okeechokee marsh, six 

 miles, by the creek, from the Lake. Mosquitoes were more nu- 

 merous here than I have ever before found them. We camped 

 here seven days and I explored the region as well as I could in 

 that limited time. All reports showed that Paroquets were as 

 common there as they are known to be anywhere, nevertheless, 

 I saw only two small flocks, one of four the other of eight birds. 

 The first passed our tent about five o'clock one morning . 

 The second betrayed its presence by a single cry from a dense 



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