1 6 The Ornithology of Chester County 



life when he removed to Geiger's Mill, Berks county ; 

 a close friend of Everhart's and one of the few pro- 

 fessional taxidermists of his day in the State; has 

 several important county records resting on his 

 authority: the Gull-billed Tern, Great Gray Owl 

 and Bohemian Waxwing. 



Major General George A. McCall, 15 whose 

 ornithological work seems to have been confined al- 

 most wholly to the Southwest ; resided at his home 

 "Belair," West Goshen township, from 1855 to 

 1 86 1, and from 1863 until his death. 



Prof. E. D. Cope 16 was another Westtown schol- 

 ar, and it is said that after the age of thirteen, his 

 summer intervals of boarding school life and later of 

 tutoring were filled among the woods, fields and 

 streams of Chester county, where an intimate knowl- 

 edge of birds was added to that of batrachians, rep- 

 tiles and insects. I have a few highly prized bird 

 skins taken by him in 1858 and 1859 at London 

 Grove, Elk creek and elsewhere in Chester county. 



J. W. Sharp 17 of Bervvyn formed the nucleus of 

 a sportsmen's collection between 1858 and 1880. 

 It consisted largely of mounted specimens of the 

 Game birds and Raptores. My earliest recollection 

 was of this exhibit at "Hawthorn Farm." It con- 

 tained a number of species now unobtainable. 



Willis P. Hazard 18 moved to East Bradford in 

 1865 and living there continuously until 1904, when 

 his residence "Maple Knoll" was destroyed by fire. 

 ?Ie was a student of ornithology although he seems 

 to have done little active field work. In the course 

 of his business as a bookman and publisher, he 



