THE OOLOGIST. 
Vom, XX VII. No. 8. 
AuBion, N. Y. Ava. 15, 1910. 
WHOLE NOo..277 
Publishcd Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, Illinois. 
A -LEDRTER: 
One of our old friends sends us a 
letter containing, among other things, 
the following paragraph, which turns 
the mind backward to the days when 
oology in America was young: 
“T have not been in the field once 
this season. Like old friend, Troup D. 
Perry, am getting stiff and the legs 
will net go as they used so. I and 
Perry have corresponded since 1880, 
and I have yet to find a more sincere 
man to the heart than he. My, but 
how the times have changed since 
those days! Where are all the old 
egg men? We don’t See their names 
in print any more; have crossed over 
the Great Divide into new worlds. 
Coues, Bendire, Wade, Southwick, An- 
dros, Small, Noble, and Snowden How- 
land are with the silent majority now.” 
Ce ESSE 
Professor W. Otto Emerson of Hay- 
wards, California, is now engaged in 
arranging and cataloguing the oologi- 
cal collection of the late Walter E. 
Bryant for the Oakland Public 
Museum. This collection is not as 
large as one would suppose, but con- 
tains many specimens taken in the 
early 70’s when Oakland was a city of 
less than 40,000 and the ground now 
covered by the same place which ex- 
tends in practically solid blocks from 
Alameda clear to Berkeley and con- 
tains approximately 200,000 people. 
Mr. Bryant was in his lifetime, re- 
garded as one of the best posted orni- 
thologists in the United States on the 
Hummingbirds, and probably as the 
very best in preparing these minute 
specimens either as skins or mounted 
birds. 
Our cld friend Thomas H. Jackson 
cf West Chester, Pennsylvania, has 
recently enjoyed the pleasure of an 
extensive bird observation trip into 
the wilds of Florida, viewing among 
other things, the sights of the famous 
Bird Island, and we are informed, has 
brought home a splendid collection of 
phetographs taken during his visit to 
that Mecca of all bird lovers. 
During his stay in Florida he enjoy- 
ed the vleasure of a visit with Mr. 
Oscar Baynard, who is also well 
known to our readers as a discrimi- 
nating observer of Florida bird life. 
pe Ss ee 
At Coronado, Florida, a Fish-hawk 
was found the other day, in rather an 
unusual predicament. 
Someone had set a steel coon trap 
on a mudbank, bordering one of our 
salt marshes. The trap was baited 
with a small fish. The rising tide cov- 
ered trap and bait. A Fish hawk, 
seeing the fish under water, dived 
down for it, with the result that it 
was caught by one foot in the trap. 
Evidently the bird had been held thus 
for two or three days. Its plumage 
was torn and disarranged, and the 
bird was so weak and emaciated that 
for half an hour after being liberat- 
ed, it was unable to fly away. 
RUBERT J, LONGSTREET. 
