•— ._. 



If space permitted I might speak of 

 other birds whose homes we discovered 

 and whose exhibitions of bird character 

 amused and instructed us, but the editor's 

 waste-basket is yaAvning and I forbear. 

 Frank H. Ntjtter, Minneapolis, Minn. 



JL Disastrous Fight. 



Omaha, Neb.,March 21. 

 — Barton M. Mills, a traveling salesman 

 of Lynn, Mass., met with a peculiar and 

 painful accident this morning at the 

 Burlington depot. Mr Mills alighted 

 from a carriage and proceeded to walk 

 around the depot to go to the baggage 

 room. Just as he reached the southwest 

 corner something struck him fairly in the 

 eye and knocked him down. The cause 

 of the mishap was an English Sparrow. 

 The bird's bill penetrated Mr. Mills' eye- 

 ball, and the unfortunate man will lose 

 his eye. The bird was picked up dead, 

 and one of its eyes was closed, the result 

 of a sparrow-fight which was in progress 

 when Mr. Mills was struck. — Chicago 

 Inter Ocean. 



si Said Eagle J&lled. 

 Last week a Bald Eagle measuring seven 

 feet and one inch from tip to tip of 

 the wings, was killed in vicinity of Sweet- 

 zer's Mill, 111. This bird had been very 

 destructive to five stock in the vicinity 

 for several years past. It was sent to a 

 prominent taxidermist in Cincinnati to 

 be mounted, the expense to be divided 

 equally between the Logan Bepublican 

 Club and a Democratic Club of that vicin- 

 ity. The ownership will be decided by 

 the result of the next Presidential elec- 

 tion. Is it safe to say that it will grace 

 the headquarters of the Logan Club? 



— At a dinner party in Boston a young 

 man who was visiting from the West was 

 asked if he was fond of oology. "Well, 

 yes," he replied at a venture, "but I don't 

 think I'll take any to-night." 



— The Sparrow Hawk, so very destruc- 

 tive in its wild state, may be easily tamed, 

 and is capable of strong attachment. 



The Bobolink's ftaids. 



The bobolink, transferred to the south, 

 lives daintily on the rice fields, and this 

 industry is actually crippled by these 

 birds, which appear in innumerable hosts 

 at seed planting and again at harvest time. 



No one would imagine that our well fav- 

 ored "Bobert o' Lincoln" comes to us from 

 a most fearful raid on rice, and departs 

 from us with the same evil intent. The 

 rice crop by the last census was valued at 

 $6,607,000, the product being 110,000,000 

 pounds. The loss by the rice birds is 

 estimated at $2,000,000 annually. Thous- 

 ands of men and boys are employed to 

 shoot these trespassers, and the rice fields 

 are shadowed by a "sulphurous canopy", 

 as if some grand battle was in progress. 



The last report of the commissioner of 

 agriculture has some startling facts in 

 regard to the ravages of these birds. The 

 rice planters are in despair. Individual 

 losses are often 50 per cent, of the crop, 

 and from $5 to $10 an acre is not uncom- 

 mon. The flight of these birds is always 

 in the night. They disappear in the spring 

 in the latter half of April, and return 

 punctually in South Carolina on Aug. 21 

 and the two or three days following. — 

 Scientific American. 



— The Bay State Oologist for March 

 contains a very interesting and instruct- 

 ive article on how to prepare skins and 

 eggs, by Prof. J. A. Singley. 



ANEW DIRECTORY. 



I am compiling a directory of the Ornitholo- 

 gists, Oologists and Taxidermists of the United 

 States and Canada. I desire to have this direct- 

 ory as complete as possible, and in order to have 

 it so I shall need yodk help. Therefore by 

 sending me your name and address, carefully 

 written and answering the following questions 

 you will greatly oblige. 



1st. -Are you a student of Ornithology, Oology 

 or Taxidermy? 



2nd. -Are you an amateur or professional? 



3rd. -Have you a collection, if so, in which 

 branch? 



4th. -Do you desire to exchange? 



Should you also see fit to furnish me with a list 

 of parties who you know 'are interested in the 

 above branches it will be very tharikf ully received. 



Hoping for your earnest co-operation in this 

 matter, I remain, 



Yours Respectfully, 



JOHN A. LOGAN, 



Moreland, HI. 



