24 Iowa Ornitholoolst. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 



MR. J. H. BROWN writes that a Gokleu Eagle was captured not far from 

 Davenport in December of 189(). 



Mr. David L. Savage will deliver a scientific lecture on "The Wonders of 

 the Bii'd World" at Glendale, Iowa, the evening of April 27th. 



During the months of March and April, thousands of Crows gathered every 

 evening at a roost in Jefferson county, near the home of Mr. Hiram Heaton. 



Mr. George C. Hoover, of West Branch, Iowa, writes that he has in his 

 collection a specimen of Miirre ( Uria froile) taken in Jolnison county, in 

 Januaiy of this year. 



Mr. Frank H. Shoemaker has left Hampton, Iowa, and located in Omaha, 

 Nebraska. He is not forgetful of the T. O. A., but sends his wishes that it may 

 have the greatest possible success. 



PuoF. Frank A. Wilder has a zoology class at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, which is 

 working up a list of birds of Webster county. He writes that if they can assist 

 the committee on the "List of lawa, Birds" they will be pleased to do it. 



Mr. Lynds Jones, an instructor in Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, writes : 

 I am very glad that the I. O. A. committee is pushing the work of a new list of 

 Iowa birds. My heart is still in my adopted state (Iowa) and many times I find 

 myself planning to return . 



Mr. Charle.s R. Keyes, of Blairstown, Iowa, found a nest of the Red- 

 tailed Hawk on April 6th containing one fresh egg. On April 10th, a nest of 

 the Long-eared Owl containing three eggs and tliree young. His latest record 

 in the first case and the earliest in the other. 



A LETTER from Mr. Ernest Irons, of the University of Chicago, (formerly 

 Council Bluffs, Iowa,) says that he is preparing an article for the Iowa Orni- 

 thologist on the "Field Columbian Miiseum," touching the points of interest 

 to the ornithologist. He will have it ready for the July issue. 



Mr. Carl Fritz Henning writes that his friend, Mr. Cal Brown, on 

 October 23, (189(5) secured an albino Engli.sh Sparrow. He first noticed it on 

 the 22nd, with a flock of twelve, feeding on the ground. Mr. Henning pre- 

 sented the specimen to Hon. Charles Aldrich, who has had it mounted for the 

 state. 



A well written and timely article, entitled "Bird Pictures," appeared in 

 Scribners Magazine for April. The writer, W. E. Scott, scores the conven- 

 tional method of bird-stulfing and furnishes eight pictures of birds mounted 

 according to liis ideas. He states that the bain of this work has been copying 

 and imitating, not observing and originating. 



Mr. W. E. Praeger delivered a lecture on "Our Birds" at Keokuk, Iowa, 

 on the evening of the 19th of March. The lecture was illustrated by a collection 



