THE OREGON NATURALIST. 
Take out, through the mouth, the eyes and 
brain of the subject. Take out the entrails. 
For birds, push a wire through each foot 
and leg, so that the ends willcome out within 
the cavity from which entrails was taken, 
Twist ends of wire together. Fi!] skull and 
body with the powder, and sew the opening. 
Make a cut lengthwise under each wing and 
fill with the powder. Set glass eyes in the head, 
Put bird on stand, and tie in position until 
dry and rigid. Small mammals are treated in 
like manner, but need not have the legs wired. 
Extreme care should always be exercised when 
handling or using any preparation containing 
arsenic or mercury, on account of their poison— 
ous properties, 
ELIEEDINOTES: 
On June 1, 1894, while collecting with Mr. 
Wade H.Pipes, near Sunnyside, Oregon, we 
flushed a Parkmans Wren from the foot of a fir 
tree. On examining the place from where she 
had flown, we discovered a nest and tive fresh 
eggs. 
Tne bark hid been separated from the tree 
about a oot from the ground and the nest was 
placed under the bark, 
Leaving the nest and returning on June 5, 
we found the bird sitting on a set of six eggs, 
After packing the eggs, I removed the nest 
which seemed to be large, but noticed nothing 
When 
I found that there was an old nest under the 
Removing the top nest I found a 
unusual until [ started to examine it. 
new one. 
dead wren setting On five eggs. 
We immediately held a post mortem exam— 
ination, but finding no cause for death, suppos- 
ed it was a case of heart failure. 
From the condition of the bird and the con- 
tents of the eggs, which were just beginning to 
dry up I would say that the bird had been dead 
twelve or fourteen days. 
[I suppose that the male, immediately after 
the death of his first wife, had procured anoth- 
er and started bis second house on what he 
considered a solid foundation. 
While collecting with Mr.R.S.Stryker, out 
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by Fulton, on the 19 of last April we noticed 
another circumstance in this same line of 
observation. 
We were going up a canyon looking for 
Western Winter Wren’s nests, when Mr.Stry- 
ker found a nest of that species in the side of 
an upturned root a few feet from the creek, 
From where he was standing he could see 
that there was a bird on the nest, but when he 
approached the nest he discovered that the bird 
was dead. Removing it from the nest and ex- 
amining it, we found ;that it was a full grown 
bird of the same species as the nest, and had 
not been dead more than two or three days, at 
the most. 
Irom the appearance of the nest we were sure 
that it was at least a year old, 
We could find no cause for death and I sup- 
posed that the bird had hatched a brood there 
the year before, and, had probably gone back 
in there for shelter and died. 
WILLIAM S.FINLEy, 
Portlan.!, Oregon. 
NEW YORK STATE INDIAN RELICS. 
Although in New York State the beeutiful 
semi precious stone bird points are not found 
that aie so common in Oregon, New Mexlco 
and other Pacific and Western States, we find 
many fine arrow an: spear heads, mortars, 
The 
are rather few in numbers in the south central 
beads, celts,axes, gorg-ets, etc. mortars, 
part of the State but I have had the good luck 
to find one last April in a pile of stones. 
Doubtless it had been brought from the f-elus 
near the creeks where many of the finest relics 
are found. ‘he finest relic ever found here 
or in any other part of the state in the line of 
beads, was found on Ouk Hill, about five miles 
from Newark Valley, by a farmer, It was madeof 
green porphyry carved in the shape of a duck 
and is highly polished fora relic of this kind, 
It was first sent to the Metropolitan Museum of 
Natural History in NewYork, where a cast was 
mide of it, it 1s now in the collection of a friend 
