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having closed his business windows. Symington Grieve 

 composed his excellent work on the Garefowl {Plautus 

 impennis) at night. The brothers P. and A. Wiebke of 

 Hamburg compiled their valuable collections of hybrid and 

 abnormally colored birds after supper, being all the year 

 round and all day long in business in the great German 

 emporium. 



There are also many ornithologists who live upon the 

 little resources nature gives to her lovers. We speak of 

 dealers in objects of natural history. Without naming the 

 wretched people who take every bird's nest they find, we 

 only mention the more generous and scientific merchants, 

 as Schliiter of Halle ; Moschler, father and son ; Schaufuss 

 of Dresden ; the brothers J. and E. Verreaux of Paris, and 

 others. Naturally they are also often importers of living 

 animals, as Jamrach, the Hagenbecks, and Kohler — the 

 latter being the first who introduced the red partridge 

 {Caccabis dappertoiit) from South Africa. On the other 

 hand, there are many collectors and amateurs who would 

 never be willing to dispose of their collections ; and who, 

 during a long life, amass a large quantity of precious 

 specimens which afterward or several generations later, are 

 usually deposited in a large town or in a public museum. 

 The old Wormius, the patriarch Seba, Schaffer, and many 

 others, are known to modern students by their museums. 

 To-day the museums of the Heine family in Germany ; of P. 

 L. Sclater and Osbert Salvin, in London ; of Count Turati 

 and Count Hans von Berlepsch, are well known ; and not 

 less so is the enormous series of specimens collected during 

 a life's leisure by Allan Octavian Hume in the Himalayan 

 mountains, now in the British Aluseum. But as the greater 

 part of mankind has not the dollars required for founding a 

 large museum, many others are content to be conservators 

 or directors in public museums. We can mention thus 

 the names of many systematic ornithologists, such as H. 

 Lichtenstein, Dr. Jean Cabanis, and Dr. Anton Reichenow, 



