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ors a chance to study both live ones 

 and stuffed ones also. 



Anyone who visits the museum al- 

 ways receives a very cordial welcome 

 from the owner, who is a very pleas- 

 ant and entertaining man, to talk 

 with, as his vast store of information 

 was gathered from his own experi- 

 ence in the woods and fields and 

 along the shore. Mr. Dinsmore Green 

 is a man much loved and respected 

 by nature students and sportsmen, 

 and as he formerly conducted a very 

 successful taxidermist business here 

 for many years, he has a very large 

 circle of acquaintances and friends. 

 We all wish that men of his kind and 

 capabilities were more plentiful. 



Horace O. Green. 

 Wakefield, Mass. 



Albino. 



I noted February 2, 1916, a White- 

 headed English Sparrow in company 

 with a few others eating the new sown 

 barley. I observed it closely for a few 

 moments at a short distance, when 

 moving nearer it flew to the fence, 

 then flew away and did not return. 

 Head light grayish white, with wide 

 bars on the wings, was in company 

 of about 30 English Sparrows. 4-26-16. 

 Young White-headed English Sparrow, 

 head and neck white, no white on 

 back, male bird, learning it to pick up 

 its own food. 



W. A. Strong. 

 San Jose, Cal. 



J. Parker Norris. 



J. Parker Norris, one of the best 

 known of the old-time Oologists, died 

 at his residence in Philadelphia on 

 March 17, 1916. 



Mr. Norris had been suffering from 

 the disease, which eventually killed 

 him, for several years. He continued, 

 however, to keep up his interest in 

 the "J. P. N." collection to the last. 



Mr. Norris was born in Philadelphia 

 on November 2, 1847, and commenced 

 to take an interest in Oology when 

 twelve or thirteen years old. He form- 

 ed a collection, and in the sixties 

 wrote a series of articles on Ornithol- 

 ogy and Oology for the Country Gen- 

 tleman, one of which, about the col- 

 lecting and preparation of eggs, was 

 re-printed in the first number of THE 

 OOLOGIST (Vol. I No. 1 Young Oolo- 

 gist). 



Mr. Norris' first collection was a 

 good one for the time and contained 

 series of Short-eared Owls, Sandhill 

 Cranes and other species that were 

 quite rare then. L. Kumlien of Wis- 

 consin, who afterward became well 

 known, was one of his collectors. Mr. 

 Norris at one time spent several days 

 in Washington helping Spencer F. 

 Baird arrange the Oological collection 

 in the Smithsonian Institute. 



Shortly before his marriage, which 

 occurred in March, 1870, Mr. Norris 

 sold his first collection. About this 

 time he began to take an active inter- 

 est in Shakespeariana. and eventually 

 accumulated a splendid library on 

 this subject. In 1885 he completed 

 a book on the Portraits of Shakes- 

 peare, which to this day remains the 

 standard authority on the subject. 



In the Fall of 1885 Mr. Norris' inter- 

 est in Oology which had lain dormant 

 for a number of years became active 

 again and he started the Norris col- 

 lection with his eldest son, J. Parker 

 Norris, Jr., at this time fourteen years 

 of age. One of the principal things to 

 reawaken Mr. Norris' zest for Oology 

 was a visit to Thomas H. Jackson at 

 West Chester, and a sight of the lat- 

 ter's fine, well arranged and interest- 

 ing collection. Soon after this Mr. 

 Norris met Samuel B. Ladd. Harry G. 

 Parker and a number of other active 

 Oologists of this period. 



In January, 1886, Mr. Norris became 



