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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo06amer (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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NE W BIRD GRO UPS 121 NORTH AMERICAN BIRD GROUPS ESSRS. Chapman, Figgins and Horsfal went to the Far West in the latter part of April to obtain animals and accessories for several groups. Their first stop was on the United States Forest Reserve in Nebraska, where they gathered materials for the Prairie Chicken and the Burrowing Owl groups. Mr. Chapman was particularly fortunate in getting some excellent photographs, the first ever taken, of the Prairie Chicken in the acts of strutting and booming. He erected his blind on the open prairie and was in it while nineteen of the birds were going through the evolutions at one time around him, entirely unconscious of his presence. From Nebraska the party went to Tucson, Arizona, where specimens were collected for the Desert Bird group, together with reptiles, small mammals and vegetation for accessories. )\Iaterial was gathered here too for the group of Allen's Jack Rabbit. From Arizona the party, with the exception of Mr. Horsfal, went to southern California for additional material, and then went northward to Salt Lake City, thence to eastern Wyoming, where Mr. Figgins left the party to return to New York, and Mr. Chapman remained to collect Sharp-tailed Grouse on the plains and afterward go into the Rocky Mountains in quest of the Golden Eagle and other birds. Two of the most important features of the work are the color sketches and photographs obtained for use in making the group surroundings of the birds true to nature. This expedition has been made possible through the generosity of the contributors to' the North American Ornithological Fund, a fund which has been provided by several friends of the Museum for the adequate representation here of characteristic American birds, many of which are becoming exceedingly rare. The use of the Nature Study collections continues to expand. During the school year which has just closed 400 cabinets con- taining the collections have been in circulation among 269 schools, and the teachers report that they have been studied by 690,333 pupils.

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