RANDOM NOTES ON NATURAL HISTORY. 



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can be heard for upwards of a mile. It is 

 uttered at various intervals, sometimes everj'^ 

 five or ten minutes for hours together, and 

 sometimes not more than two or three times 

 during the day ; its purport most probably 

 is to invite the females to the place. When 

 the business of incubation is over, the 

 broods, with the parent birds, keep collected 

 together about one spot and descend tow- 

 ards their winter resorts as the season ad- 

 vances ; but the forests are so denseh' 

 crowded with long weeds and grass that 

 they are seldom seen till about November, 

 when these have partiall}' deca3'ed, so as to 

 admit of a view through the wood." 



The Jewar feeds chiefly on the leaves of 

 trees and shrubs ; of the former the box and 

 oak are the principal ones ; of the latter, 

 thvyall and a shrub something like privet. 

 It also eats roots, flowers, grubs, insects, 

 acorns, seeds, and berries of various kinds,, 

 but in small proportion as compared with 

 leaves ; in captivity it will eat almost an}' 

 kind of grain. Though the most solitary 

 of our pheasants, and in its native forests 

 perhaps the shyest, it is the most easily 

 reconciled to confinement ; even when caught 

 old it soon loses its timidity, eating readily 

 out of the hand, and little dilficulty is ex- 

 perienced in rearing it. 



529 Knot; Robin Snipe (spring 



plumage) 1 25 to 1 50 



539a Red-backed Sandpiper (spring 



plumage) 1 25 to 1 50 



541a Western Sandpiper 1 50 to 2 00 



543 Marbled Godwit 1 25 to 2 00 



553 Wandering Tattler 5 00- 



559 Hudsonian CurleV 1 50 to 2 00 



593 White-fronted Goose 3 50 to 4 00 



640 White Pelican 6 00 to 10 00 



641 Brown Pelican 3 00 to 4 00 



701 Short-tailed Albatross (young) 7 50 



FOREIGN BIRD SKINS. 

 Tragopans, Horned Pheasants.. 



We have now on hand a few good skins of 

 these fine birds. 



Red Tragopan (Ceriornis satyra) 8 00 



Black Tragopan (Ceriornismelanocephala) 10 00 



BIRD ECCS. 



407a European Hawk Owl $2 00 



150 Waxwing 2 50 



530 Purple Sandpiper 100 



586 European Swan 1 50 



622 Harlequin Duck 1 50 



629 King Eider 2 50 



699 Buffon's Jaeger 1 50 



412a Iceland Gyr Falcon 6 00 



669 Ring-billed Gull 1 00 



674 Franklin's Rosy Gull 3 00 



408a Florida Burrowing Owl 4 00 



402a Florida Screech Owl 3 50- 



371 Pileated Woodpecker 150- 



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BIRD SKINS. 



Audubon's Warbler 60 to 75 



Black-throated Gray Warbler.. $1 00 



Cassin's Vireo 1 25 



Black-chinned Span-ow 3 00 



Western Yellow-bellied Fly- 

 catcher 50 to 75 



Nuttall's Woodpecker 2 00 to 2.50 



White-headed Woodpecker 1 75 to 2 50 



Golden Eagle 7 50 to 10 00 



Bald Eagle 6 00 to 8 00 



Band-tailed Pigeon 1 50 to 2 50 



Dusky Grouse 3 00 to 4 00 



Great White Heron 15 00 to 25 00 



Ward's Heron 3 00 to 4 00 



American Egret 2 50 to 3 00 



Snowy Heron 2 00 to 2 50 



Wood Ibis 2 50 to 3 50 



Roseate Spoonbill, adult. 7 00 to 10 00 



" " young 3 50 to 5 Oq 



Red-breasted Snipe (spring 

 plumacje) 1 25 to 1 50 



