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day he was placed in the garret, where he had a measure of dark- 

 ness and plenty of wing room. Here he ate readily the heads of 

 food that was left convenient, varying this occupation with the 

 tearing to pieces of an old Cooper's Hawk skin. So far as I 

 could judge, he ate only on alternate da5's. 



During the eight days of his sojourn with me, no increase of 

 tameness was shown ; and he would fly when I came near, seeking 

 the darkest cranny of the garret, scolding me often with the char- 

 acteristic anger-note of all the smaller Hawks and Owls. Soon 

 my captive found a permanent home in the family of the foster- 

 father of Minnesota ornithology, where, I was soon informed, he 

 became quickly domesticated, — -eating bits of steak from a chop-stick, 

 beheading" English Sparrows with neat despatch, and drinking from 

 a teaspoon. 



JTor Ceacijers anti ^tutient0 



An 'Advisory Council' 



T gives us unusual pleasure to announce a plan, the 

 fulfilment of which, already assured, will, we believe, 

 be of great assistance to bird students and exert 

 an important influence on the increase in our knowl- 

 edge of North American birds. 



Realizing from a most fortunate experience how 

 j*^'^ greatly the past-master in ornithology may aid the be- 

 ginner, we have felt that it would be an admirable scheme 

 to form an 'Advisory Council,' composed of leading or- 

 nithologists throughout the United States and Canada, 

 W'lio would consent to assist students by responding" to their re- 

 quests for information or advice, the student being thus bi'ought 

 into direct communication with an authority on the birds of his 

 own region. 



The response to our appeal has been most gratifying. With- 

 out exception the ornithologists whom we have addressed have 

 cordially endorsed the proposed plan, and signified their willingness 

 to cooperate with us in this effort to reach the isolated worker. 

 Nearly every state in the Union and province in Canada has been 

 heard from, and we expect in our next number to publish the 

 names and addresses of the more than fifty prominent ornitholo- 

 gists who will form Bird-Lore's 'Advisory Council.' — ^Ed. 



