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eggs there that we desired. Among 

 others which we especially wanted 

 to see and examine were eggs of the 

 Trumpeter Swan, and of the Whoop- 

 ing Crane. The collection here is so 

 large that no person could see it all 

 in any reasonable time, or remember 

 half that they saw if they saw it all. 



The arrangement of this collection 

 is peculiar. The eggs of each separ- 

 ate variety are placed in a separate 

 drawer. These drawers contains me- 

 dium sized trays. These trays are 

 divided into separate compartments, 

 just lage enough to hold one egg, by 

 a series of cross sections runing both 

 crossways and lengthways of the tray, 

 made of cotton batting, and in each 

 division of the tray so made, one egg 

 is so placed in the cotton batting that 

 the top of the egg and the top of the 

 cotton batting are about equal in 

 height. The sets are not kept separ- 

 ate, each set by itself, but they are 

 run along crossways of these small 

 trays similar to the way type is set up- 

 on a page, and in looking at the box 

 containing the specimens, there is no 

 way of telling where one set ends 

 and another begins. 



To our minds this is a defective 

 system. Otherwise the method of nest- 

 ing each egg in the cotton is a good 

 idea. We have never seen a more 

 carefully preserved collection of eggs, 

 nor one that was in a more perfect 

 condition. 



Prom Washington our road took us 

 to the Gettysburg Battle Field, then 

 into Western Pennsylvania, then 

 North over the National Pike from 

 Bedford to Pittsburgh, and from Pitts- 

 burgh, nearly straight West, home on 

 August 31st. We were gone 50 days 

 ran 3800 miles and visited 15 states. 



The above impresions we thought 

 might be of interest to those who had 

 not met the collectors who are above 

 referred to, 



A March Day in Texas. 



March 29, 1913, I started from home 

 in Houston, Texas, about 8:15 a.m., 

 carrying a small package of lunch and 

 a .22 target rifle; I never like to take 

 a tramp in the woods without the .22 

 and a few mustard-seed shells, al- 

 though one always sees rarer birds 

 when he has no weapons. 



It was nearly nine o'clock before 

 I got out of the city limits onto an 

 old country road running west of 

 Houston and along the edge of a par- 

 ticularly fine strip of wooded land. 

 A slight north wind was blowing, the 

 weather was fine and clear, and it 

 was just the day for an enjoyable 

 trip through pine woods. 



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Very few birds were seen before 

 entering the woods, but as sev- 

 eral stages of landscape were cov- 

 ered during the day I was able to 

 record a goodly list of species. A 

 wet, grassy "flat," open prarie, pine 

 woods, thickets 'bottom woods, culti- 

 vated fields, and mixed, open woods 

 followed one another in due order. 



I left the pine woods about 4:30 p. 

 m., and reached home by 5:30. The list 

 of birds for the day's amble is as 

 follows: 



Killdeer 7 



Bob White 3 



Mourning Dove 2 



Turkey Vulture 11 



Black Vulture 4 



Marsh Hawk 1 



Florida Red-shouldered Hawk 4 



Barn Owl 1 



Downy Woodpecker 1 



Yellow-bellied Wodpecker 1 



Flicker 10 



Chimmey Swift 1 



Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 1 



Crester Flycatcher 1 



Phoebe 1 



Blue Jay 11 



Crow , 1 



