DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



JAIVIES TAYLOI?, 

 No. 36 N. THIRTEENTH ST., 



ONE DOOa BELOW FILBERT, 

 PRESERVER OF 





FISH & INSECTS, 



IN A SUPERIOR MANNER AND WARRANTED. 

 HIT' Old Birds cleaned and repaired. 



This particular card has an interesting history. It was found 

 wrapped up in a copy of the Philadelphia Ledger for December 

 8th, 1858, which was used as part of the stuffing in the old 

 bison, that long stood in the exhibition gallery of the Academy 

 at Broad and Sansom streets and later in the Nineteenth street 

 gallery. 



All of these men, with the exception of Westcott, were pro- 

 fessional collectors and taxidermists. There were others, not 

 ornithologists in the real sense of the word, who took up the 

 pursuit in a purely amateur way. One of these was John Mc- 

 Ilvaine who lived on Baring street. He was a delightful old 

 gentleman and I remember him always as wearing a high silk 

 hat, even in his home. He made very artistic and natural mounts 

 of birds, especially of warblers, in various characteristic poses. 

 I met him once on the train, on a May morning, going out to 

 shoot warblers at Grubb's Bridge (now Wawa) . If I remember 

 rightly he had a cane gun. The cane gun was much in vogue 

 among collectors near the city in those days. I had one that 

 generally hit me in the face and the bird usually flew away. 

 The ramrod, too, was a jointed affair — and one was forever leav- 

 ing the stock at home. This, I think, was the experience also 

 of Dr. Coues — who refers to it in his "Field Ornithology" as 

 having "only two recommendations. If you approve of shoot- 

 ing on Sunday and yet scruple to shock popular prejudice, you 

 •can slip out of town unsuspected. If you are shooting where 

 the law forbids destruction of small birds — a wise and good law 



