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THE OOLOGIST. 



e.il than that oi a Huron; in fact he has 

 much of his European cousin's philo- 

 sophical turn of mind, meeting alike 

 friend and foe with that suggestive 

 "clack" of his huge bill. Our host had 

 one Avith the tip of his wing shot off, 

 which he kept as a pet. Among cats 

 or dogs he unhesitatingly asserted his 

 rights, taking each by the nose in his 

 l)owerful mandibles — an ordeal which 

 the same dog would hardly subject him- 

 self to a second time since a Wood Ibis 

 stands almost waist high to a man, but 

 at the sight of a pig he always lost his 

 courage and lied. This particular Ibis 

 was an enormous feeder in the broadest 

 sense, eating any scra]js from the table, 

 prijvided tliey be placed in water whence 

 he skimmed them off with his lull. 

 From observing this bird and the con- 

 tents of the stomach of one from which 

 1 made a skin, I am inclined to think 

 the Wood Il)is an enormous feeder to 

 a c<'rtain extent. Did space permit, 

 nuiiiy pages could be written upon this 

 one bird, l)Ut as I probably Avill spend 

 next s[)ring in that place collecting and 

 I may llien give my experiences from 

 linu^ to time through the columns of 

 the of OoLOGisT. 



H. F. A. 

 Carlinville, Ills. 



A (jrood Way to Trap Hawks. 



THE OOLOGIST 



While talking with a painter one day 

 on the suliject of hawks, he told me how 

 he has caugiit a good many large ones. 

 He said he took a small steel trap which 

 he set on a conspicuous dead limb of a 

 tree in a locality which hawks frequent, 

 and, l)aited it with a small dead l)ird, 

 whicli he secured to the pan of the trap. 

 Be e-arefu! to iix the bird so that the 

 jaws will clear it, on closing. Tlu- 

 hnngry iiawk sailing along spys the 

 bird, which he grabs at with liis talons, 

 ivid is thus caught. I set one and 

 found it to be vwy efficient. 



J. Hakmanis Fishkk, Jk. 

 Baltiiriore, Md. 



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