THE OOLOGIST. 



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the Study of Bird Migration, by Harry 

 Gordon White. A Study of Bird 

 Waves in the Delaware Valley during 

 the Spring Migration of 1890,' by Wit- 

 raer Stone. Our Present Knowledge 1 of 

 the Neotropieal Avifauna, by Frank M. 

 Chapman. The . Case of Cblaptes au- 

 ratus and , C. cafer, by J.' A. Allen. 

 Observations upon the Classification of 

 the United States Accipitres — based 

 upon a study of their Osteology, by K: 

 W. Shufeldt, Sonic Oose'rvations on 

 the Breeding of Dendroica vigorsn 'at 

 Raleigh, N, C.,'byC. S^ Brimley. ' The 

 Trans- Appalachian Movement, of Birds 

 from the Interior to .the South 'Atlantic 

 States, Viewed Chiefly from the Stand- 

 point of Chester ' Count}', S. C, by 

 Leveret f M. Loomis.' A .Further Re- 

 view of the 1 Avian Fauna 'df' Chester 

 County, S. C., b,y Leverett M. Loomis. 

 Some Bird Skele£ons~"from Guadalupe 

 Islahd, 'by' 'Frederic A. ! Lucas. The 

 Present ; Status of the I-vory-Billed 

 Woodpecker, by E. M. HasbroUck'. 

 Some Notes' Concerning the Evening 

 Grosbeak, by Aiilos W. Butler. The 

 Spring Migration of the Red Phalarope 

 ( Crymophilus fulioarius), by Hanw 

 Gordon White. On the Tongue of 

 Humming Birds, by Frederic A. Lucas. 

 Insect, Intuition and Intelligence, by 

 C. F. Amery. The Habits of the Amer- 

 ican Golden Plover in Massachusetts, 

 by Geo. H. Mackay. Correction to 

 Revised Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Kansas, byN. S. Goss. Second Occur- 

 rence of the White-Faced Glossy Ibis 

 (Plegadis quarauna) in Kansas, by N. 

 t8. Goss. Remarks on the Primary 

 Faunal Divisions of North America, by 

 C. Hart Merriam. 



At the last meeting of the A. O. U. it 

 was suggested that especial effort be 

 made to secure, for exhibition at the 

 meeting of 1890, a quantity of photo- 

 graphic material bearing on birds. 

 The committee appointed to take 

 charge of the matter went into it with 

 a good deal of energy and were quite 

 successful. 



One of the interesting and popular 

 features of the meeting was an exhibi- 

 tion of photographic slides from living 

 birds and nests taken by Henry M. 

 Spellman, of Cambridge, Mass. These 

 slides were thrown on canvas an.d: ex- 

 plained by Mr. Wm. Brewster, of Cam 1 



EXPERT TAXIDERMY. 



Manner of Preservirg Seme Deceased Zoologi- 

 cal Specimens from Sells Brothers' 



bridge.— Forest ■& Stream. 



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Lying on the floor at the rooms of 

 Oliver Davie, the taxidermist on North 

 High street, yesterday, was seen the 

 carcass of a huge ostrich, which died at 

 Sellsville Monday from the effects of 

 the. late cold snap. 



. The. bird is to be made the subjeet of 

 Mr. Davie's skill, and will be added to 

 that gentlemen's large collection of 

 specimens. Some idea of the' magni- 

 tude of such an undertaking, may be 

 gained when it is known that the os- 

 trich weighs 150 pounds and is over six 

 feet tall. The skin will first be care- 

 fully removed and subjected to a curing 

 process, and impressions of the various 

 portions of the body will then be taken 

 in potters' clay, to secure perfection iii 

 form. After being thoroughly tanned, 

 the skin with its coat of feathers will be 

 mounted on a framework of wood and 

 iron, and the body filled out to its nat- 

 ural proportions. The entire job re- 

 quires the work of two men for the 

 greater part of two weeks. 



This is a tine specimen of African os- 

 trich.. It is a male with beautiful black 

 feathers, worth more than their weight 

 in gold when sold as plumes for ladies' 

 headgear. The females are gray. The 

 bird is four years old and has been at- 

 tached to the zoological department of 

 the show for two years. Its legs show 

 enormous strength, the kick of an os- 

 trich being as mush to be dreaded as 

 that of a mule. On their native des- 

 erts, when put on the defensive, they 

 have been known to disembowel the 

 Arab pursuer with one effort of the 

 enormous claw. 



All animals and birds dying during 

 the winter at Sellsville are now turned 

 over to Mr. Davie, and some splendid 

 specimens are thus secured. 



A tapir that succumbed to the weath- 

 er several weeks ago, was given to Mr. 

 Davie and has been added to his stuffed 

 menagerie, which includes also two ele- 

 phants and a sea lion secured from 

 Sells Bros. 



Mr. Davie's collection is one of th 

 finest in the country, comprising many 

 species of North American birds, like- 

 wise, those native to foreign countries, 

 besides a large number of other mem- 

 hers, of the animal kingdom, including 

 in all over 1500 specimens. 



