Number 26. April. 15, 19 16. 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan. Published by the University. 



TME ORNITHOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF 

 CHARLES FOX. 



By Bradsiiaw LI. Swales. 



For mail}- years students of Michigan ornithology have 

 encountered in the Hterature references to a paper on the hirds 

 of the state by Rev. Charles Fox. Fox came to ^^lichigan from 

 New York in 1830 and settled on Grosse Isle, in the lower 

 Detroit River, where he remained until his death, by cholera, 

 in 1854. He seemed to have been a man of rather unusual 

 scientific attainments for his time. At Grosse Isle he occupied 

 a church on the west side of the island, and at the same time 

 was lecturer in agriculture in the University of Michigan and 

 senior editor of the Farmer's Companion and Horticultural 

 Gazette. He was apparently broadly interested in zoology, 

 particularly in herpetology, and supplied Professor Baird, of 



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