THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



In the latter part of July Mr. Chapman made his second trip 

 of the season for the purpose of getting material for the Cadwala- 

 der bird groups. He visited Cobb's Island on the coast of Vir- 

 ginia, north of Cape Charles, which formerly was a famous place 

 for beach-breeding sea-birds. The ravages of millinery collec- 

 tors have completely exterminated some species and greatly re- 

 duced the numbers of others, but the island still is frequented 

 by great numbers of birds of species for which as yet Fashion 

 has made no call. It is proposed to represent a beach scene 

 with its feathered inhabitants and thus preserve for all time an 

 accurate, graphic record of conditions which even now are on the 

 verge of extinction. This group will be a companion piece for 

 that representing the sea-bird life of rocky coasts. 



Through information obtained by correspondence with the 

 captain of the Life-Saving Station situated on Cobb's Island the 

 trip was timed so that the island was reached at exactly the 

 right date to collect the material which shortly will be exhibited 

 in the gallery of the Bird Hall. 



Some of the material collected by Dr. E. O. Hove}^ on the 

 expedition to Martinique and St. Vincent, noticed in the last 

 number of the Journal, has been placed on exhibition near the 

 carriage entrance, together with a relief map of the island of 

 Martinique and a series of transparencies illustrating some of 

 the more striking features of the trip. 



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