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Bird - Lore 



WITH WINGS HELD FAST 



BURDOCK HOOKS 



many years before. So, while I have fre- 

 quently loaned the negatives to ornitho- 

 logical friends for lantern-slide making, 

 I have not offered them for publicatioi}.. 

 I have, however, recently used one of them- 

 for illustration of the mistakes of instinct in 



sF-:r rioxAL vikw oi' burdock burs show 



IN(; LAkV.K 



Noll- also llu- hooked s|.iiics 



my text-book of General Biology, and as the 

 editor of BiRD-LoRE has thought that the 

 others would be of interest to its readers, 

 I have gladly offered them for its columns. 

 — James G. Needham, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Some Interesting Reminiscences 

 of Audubon 



I perfectly recollect the 

 world-renowned naturalist, John 

 James Audubon, whom, as a 

 bo\-, I visited at his home in 

 what is now Audubon Park, 

 New York. My grandmother, 

 Sarah Hazzard, widow of Major 

 William Wig Hazzard of South 

 Carolina, in the Continental 

 .Army, having moved to New 

 \'ork, ])urchascd the Brockholst 

 I-i\ingst()n estate of twenty acres, 

 on the Hudson at 90th Street, 

 where my mother, while visiting 

 lier, diefl, leaving me to her ten- 

 der care. Another daughter, 

 Mrs. Horace Waldo, lived with 



