﻿In Memoriam. 



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another, by an account of a circumstance which had come under his 

 own observation. A screech-owl had escaped from a part of a large 

 cage into another part of the same, where there was a large-horned 

 owl. In the morning, only the remains of some feathers of the 

 screech-owl were to be found in the cage. He described the manner 

 in which an owl swallowed a mouse. The prey was caught in the 

 middle of the body between the mandibles, and immediately 

 jerked round with the head toward the throat, and with a sudden 

 gulp disappeared. 



Mr. Dury remarked, that at the Zoological Gardens, screech- 

 owls fought with and killed one another. He further stated, that 

 in Clermont County he had dissected a specimen of polecat, whose 

 stomach was filled with grasshoppers. This animal bears the repu- 

 tation of being a depredator on chickens, and is universally con- 

 demned by farmers. 



Mr. Wm. Hubbell Fisher read a note from Rev. John G. Black, 

 of Beliaire, Ohio, relative to the rinding of wood-thrush in the 

 vicinity of his residence, during the present winter.* 



Mr. Dury remarked, that the wood-thrush is so entirely an in- 

 sectivorous bird, that it did not seem possible that it was a winter 

 resident in Ohio. He considered there must have been a mistake 

 in the identification. He stated, that even in Florida, when the 

 birds arrived, they came from the South, showing that they win- 

 tered even farther to the south than Jacksonville. 



IN MEMORIAM. 

 (R. B. Moore.) 



The undersigned committee, appointed to prepare a memorial 

 of the life of R. B. Moore, beg leave to report the following : 



Richard B. Moore was born near Bethel, Clermont County, O., 

 December 28, 18 15, and died at his home in Wyoming, Hamilton 

 County, O., January 25, 1885. 



The place of bis birth was, at that time, a wilderness; his parents, 

 like many of the pioneers, were in straightened circumstances, and 



* Since this Mr. Fisher has received the bird referred to by his correspondent, 

 and finds it to be the Towhee Finch, instead of the Wood Thrush. 



