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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo02amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL NEW BIRD GROUPS. HROUGH the generosity of a friend of the Museum, who desires to have his name withheld from the pubhc, six groups have recently been added to the very attractive and instructive series repre- senting birds amid their natural surroundings which are to be seen in the halls of the Ornithological De- partment. The new groups represent the American dipper, or water-ousel, the osprey, the yellow-headed blackbird, the coot, Wilson's phalarope and the wild pigeon. The material for the first-named was gathered by Mr. Frank M. Chapman last sum- mer on the banks of a rushing icy stream issuing from a glacier in the Selkirk mountains of British Columbia. The rocky bank of the stream, the nest in the cleft of the rock and the birds in and about the nest have been reproduced with lifelike fidelity in the Museum exhibition case. Mr. Chapman collected the specimens and accessories for the osprey group on Gardiner's Island, off the eastern end of Long Island, and those for the blackbird, coot and phalarope groups at Shoal Lake, Manitoba. The twelve specimens included in the wild-pigeon group were secured with much difficulty from collectors and dealers through- out the country, the surprising fact being incidentally developed that a species which, within the last fifty years, was one of the most abundant native birds of this country, is now so rare, not only in nature, but also in collections, that specimens of it are practically unobtainable. Each of these new groups is designed to illustrate not only the haunts and habits of a species of birds, but also some fact of general biological interest. This feature will be fully set forth in the labels accompanying the cases. NOTES AND NEWS. Department of Entomology.—Mr. William Beutenmliller, the Curator of this Department of the Museum, again visited the Black mountains of western North Carolina during Septem- ber and October last for the purpose of securing specimens of the insects occurring in this interesting region and of obtaining 4

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