86 THE OOLOGIST 
TROUPE D. PERRY 
With this issue we present a half- 
tone photo of our old friend Troupe 
D. Perry, of Savannah, Georgia. Few 
Ornithologists in the United States 
are better known to the general run 
of bird students. For a generation 
Mr. Perry has been a student of the 
birds of his locality and a collector 
on a large scale. Rare indeed it is 
to find any collections of oological 
specimens within the borders of the 
United States, of any considerable 
size, that does not contain numerous 
specimens with datas in Mr, Perry’s 
well known handwriting behind them. 
Many of the larger collections in Hu- 
rope likewise contain numerous ex- 
amples of his industry and prepara- 
tion, He is noted among the oolo- 
gists of the country for the accuracy 
of his statements and extreme care 
with which he prepares everything 
taken by him. 
Wonld that there were more of 
this kind abroad in the land. 
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D. B. BURROWS. 
Professor Burrows, a well known 
bird student of Lacon, Illinois has just 
finished a year’s superintendency of 
the Evant, Texas schools, being his 
second year there, and goes next year 
to San Diego, Texas, to take charge 
of the schools of that city. He is to 
be congratulated upon his promotion. 
A card from him says, “I have done 
a little collecting, and have taken 
Plumbeous Chickadee, plumbeous 
Gnatcatcher, and Audubon’s Oriole, 
among others.” He will be home in 
a few days and Ye editor will without 
doubt have the privilege of inspect- 
ing these rare specimens. 
Professor Burrows has probably as 
complete a collection of Texas speci- 
mens personally taken as any person 
living, he having taught in that state 
nearly all of the time since 1892, and 
in widely separated localities, giving 
him an unusual opportunity to extend 
his acquaintance among the different 
species of that vauna. 
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THE RUFFED GROUSE. 
(Bonasa umbellus) 
A. O. U. No. 300. 
This well known game bird is found 
throughout Eastern North America 
and is subject to few variations. It 
is not migratory and usually breeds 
wherever it is found. One of the first 
birds that the boys wandering through 
the woods become acquainted with, is 
the Ruifed Grouse. The bird forces 
itself unon the attention of the young- 
ster either by its drumming, a pecu- 
liar noise that at once attracts the 
attention of the young mind, or startles 
Young America half out of his wits 
as it rises at his feet from the leaves 
and brush with a whirr and roar of 
its wings, truly appalling to the boy 
mind. 
Its favorite haunts are the edge of 
the wocds, abjurring usually the deep 
secluded densely wooded tracks. The 
nest is merely a depression scratched 
in the ground, lined with a few leaves, 
grass, stems and weeds, and is sit- 
uated at the foot of a small shrub 
or at the base of a large stump or 
tree, sometimes by the side of a log 
and occasionally under brush or bush- 
es; almost invariably where the 
ground is more or less covered with 
fallen last year’s leaves, with which 
the protective coloration of the bird 
match up almost to perfection. 
The eggs, numbering from eight 
to fourteen, are of an ovate, slight- 
ly pointed at one end, shape, of creamy 
color and sparsely spotted with 
brownish rusty or reddish spots, scat- 
tered sparingly over the shell, and us- 
ually showing but faintly. The bird 
is noted as a close sitter, and will 
