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THE OOLOGIST 



more as a list of the birds living on 

 Matinicus Rock than anything else. 

 Roscoe I. Giles. 



Notice. 



Owing to the unusual stress of im- 

 portant law business the Editor has 

 been unable to give any attention to 

 oology during the last month or two; 

 but shortly after the middle of June 

 will take the matter up again and 

 catch up with all correspondence. 

 This notice is given that all those in- 

 terested may govern themselves ac- 

 cordingly. R. M. Barnes. 



A New England Collection. 



There is one collection of New Eng- 

 land birds and animals that I have 

 never seen mentioned in our Orni- 

 thological literature and I think a few 

 facts in connection with it may be of 

 general interest, for in some respects 

 it is a remarkable one. I refer to the 

 collection in the private muesum of 

 Mr. Dinsmore Green, the veteran taxi- 

 dermist of Greenwood, Mass., who, by 

 the way, is not a relative of the pres- 

 ent writer, although a personal friend 

 of many years standing, and one to 

 whom I owe many a debt of gratitude 

 for aid and information in regard to 

 procuring specimens of our rarer 

 birds. 



Mr. Green's Museum is a very large, 

 well lighted room, an addition recent- 

 ly built on his house and designed es- 

 pecially for the purpose it now serves. 

 His collection includes mounted birds 

 and animals and big game heads, and 

 represents Mr. Green's own individual 

 efforts for nearly forty years, for not 

 only has he mounted all his speci- 

 mens himself but nearly all of them 

 were collected by him on the numer- 

 ous trips he has taken throughout 

 New England and New Brunswick. 



The animals range in size from the 

 small mice and moles to the Caribou 



and moose. The birds include many 

 of our larger and rarer species, tlie 

 Eagles, Hawks and Owls being well 

 represented by specimens in full adult 

 plumage, most of them taken by Mr. 

 Green many years ago when they were 

 very plentiful and it was possible to 

 pick out birds in exceptionally good 

 plumage. 



Many of his birds which were col- 

 lected here in Massachusetts are now 

 rare or extinct all over the country. 

 His Passenger Pigeon is one of the 

 best ones I have ever seen and is 

 probably one of the very last of this 

 species which was killed in this vi- 

 cinity. A very fine specimen of Es- 

 kimo Curlew is probably the rarest of 

 his group of shore birds, although 

 many other rare ones are represented 

 there. 



Hawks and Owls, game birds and 

 water-fowl form the bulk of the bird 

 collection, very little space being- 

 given to common birds which are 

 easily obtained. 



The taxidermist work is remarkably 

 good, the forms and attitudes of both 

 the birds and mammals being very 

 life-like, which not only adds great 

 value to this collection but also offers 

 conclusive evidence that the owner 

 has studied them closely and faithful- 

 ly in their nature haunts. 



Very few taxidermists can show a 

 collection of "personally taken" spe- 

 cimens which can compare with this 

 one, for at the present time one's op- 

 portunities to collect rare material 

 are necessarily limited by the de- 

 crease in wild life. Although Mr. 

 Green occasionally picks up a few 

 rare specimens now, he devotes much 

 of his leisure time to the making of 

 bird houses and attracting wild birds 

 to the vicinity of the museum. Dur- 

 ing the last few years he has had 

 quite a numerous colony of birds 

 breeding nearby, thus affording visit- 



