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The Hawkeye Ornithologist and Oologist. 



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NOTES. 



During the recent cold weather at 

 San Francisco, the city was visited 

 by thousands of snow birds of a kind 

 never seen there before. 



Mr B. L. Brown, a well-known taxi- 

 dermist of Durand, Wis., informs us 

 that he has just returned from an ex- 

 tended expedition after Moose and 

 Elk in Northern Minnesota. 



The remaining copies of the second 

 edition of Oliver Davie's "Nests and 

 Eggs" are so few that he is about to 

 issue a third edition. It will probably be 

 ready by the 1st of April. 



Owing to a rush of outside work 

 the present month we were necessari- 

 ly compelled to limit this issue to 

 twenty-two pages, thus crowding 

 out several valuable articles. Es- 

 pecially do we regret having to hold 

 one on the "Care of Minerals" by W. 

 S. Beekman,Ph. O, of West Medford, 

 Mass. 



We publish this month in the space 

 usually devoted to the protection of 

 birds from useless destruction, a con- 

 densation of an able speech deliver- 

 ed by W. F. Langdon, before the So- 

 ciety of Natural History of Cincinnati 

 and published in one of the daily 

 papers of that place. While we do 

 not wish it to be understood that our 

 views coincide entirely with those of 

 Mr. Langdon, still we think a careful 

 reading will furnish all with much 

 lood for reflection. 



Mr. Austin C. Stemple, of Fort 

 Madison, Iowa, informs us of the dis- 

 covery at that place, sometime dur- 

 ing last June, of a large tooth, sup- 

 posed to be that of the mastodon. It 

 was found by a colored workman, 

 about twenty feet below the surface of 

 the water, while work was in pro- 

 gress on the piers of the C. S. T. — 

 Gal., bridge which crosses the river 

 there. The workman gave it to the 

 firm by which he was employed and 

 it is said that they sent it to some 

 museum. As Mr. Stemple was re- 

 porting for the daily paper of that 

 city at the time, he had the pleasure 

 of seeing the tooth, which he judged 

 to weigh upward of six pounds,and to 

 be eight inches in length by four and a 

 half in width. This is the second 

 tooth of the mastodon that has been 

 found in that locality. 



