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THE NIDOLOGIST 
Exponent of American Ornithology and Oology 
PUBLISHED MONTHLY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS 
Vol. IV. No.6 ALAMEDA, CAL., APRIL, 1697 $1.00 Per Year 
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AN AVIAN TRAGEDY 
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The above is a sketch by B. H. Douglas from photo furnished by B. S. Bowdish of Holley, 
New York, who writes:—I send by this mail, photos of a little tragedy, proof of which was collected 
by E. B. Peck and myself and which said proof still hangs in our ‘“‘den.’’ A female Baltimore Oriole 
while engaged in building her nest was caught by a portion of the horsehair which she was employing 
in the building, and several strands becoming firmly twisted through her beak and around her throat 
she was effectively ‘‘hung by the neck until dead.” 
