MEMORIES, THE OOLOGIST HOLDS DEAR; AND NATURE, DIVINE. 



Two songs by an "Old Time" Oologist and Naturalist. Especially presenting, "MEM- 

 ORIES, THE OOLOGIST HOLDS DEAR," inspired by thoughts the mind pictures to the 

 enthusiastic oologist as he wanders through his sanctuary looking through cabinets and cases 

 filled with choice sets of eggs gathered by himself in the years long since passed ; or by some 

 brother oologist, who, mayhap, has answered the recall of the great Creator who gave him being 

 and sent him forth with a soul attuned for a love of the pure and beautiful abounding every- 

 where. 



To those whose cheeks once glowed with delight, and whose hearts once throbbed with 

 warm enthusiasm while in pursuit of their favorite hobby, but whose earthly spheres, though now 

 silent are still filled with these beautiful cabinet monuments,— mementos of a noble life-work,— 

 is this leaflet respectfully dedicated. ^ WARREN JACOBS. 



BINOCULAR VIEW of study series of eggs of American Osprey, Bald Eagle, Golden 

 Eagle and American Sparrow Hawk in the collection of J. Warren Jacobs, Waynesburg, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Among the Osprey sets (left of center division) are many collected by the late William 

 B. Crispin, in New Jersey and Delaware, about twelve years ago; Harry B. Sargent (N. J.), in the 

 90's; and Chas. S. Schick (N. J.) far back in the 80's; and among the Sparrow Hawk sets the 

 work of Edward Reneicke is represented. All these collectors have passed to the Great Beyond. 

 The set of Golden Eagle (right of center divisio.i), in the foreground and partly obscured, was 

 taken by the late Harry R. Taylor in California, March 3, 1901 ; and among the Bald Eagle sets 

 is one of two fine large eggs collected by the lata J. E. Darlington, 60 miles south of Baltimore, 

 in 1882. 



Some of these beautiful sets have occupied a very prominent historical place in the Ornith- 

 ological World, being a part of the author's oological exhibit at the great World's Fairs at 

 Chicago, in 1893, and at St. Louis, 1904. 



In the second row from the bottom, and the second set from the center division rests a 

 beautiful set of three Osprey eggs collected by C. S. Schick, near Sea Isle City, N. J., in May, 1887, 

 and exhibited at the Chicago World's Fair; and the three darker colored eggs, lying next to 

 these, on the left, is the Harry B. Sargent set, taken on Shrewsbury River, N. J., in 1894, and 

 exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. 



The Darlington set of Bald Eagle, belonging to the Chicago World's Fair exhibit, is in the 

 second row from bottom and the third set from the center division line. In the bottom row, 

 lying next to the set of Golden Eagle are two unusually large specimens of Bald Eagle eggs, 

 taken on the southwest coast of Florida, in 1903, and exhibited with the author's collection at 

 the St. Louis Exposition. In the fourth row from bottom and the fourth set to the right of 

 the center division line lies a set of four American Sparrow Hawk, taken by Edward Reneicke, 

 on French River, Canada, in 1893, and used by the author in his St. Louis exhibit. 



An interesting feature of the Osprey series in this picture which should be mentioned is 

 the set of enormously large, finely colored specimens in the front row. These eggs are as large 

 as some of those of the Bald Eagle. Lying next to this set, on the left, are four runts, one of 

 several similar sets taken in consecutive years from the same nest in Monmouth county, N. J. 

 These abnormal sets were collected in recent years and came into the author's possession through 

 Mr. Wilmer Woodward, of West Chester, Pa. 



