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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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68 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL of Cassiques presents one of the most animated and attractive sights in the bird-Hfe of our tropical forests. Following the rule that fewer eggs are laid by tropical than by northern birds, the Cassique lays but two eggs, while our Oriole lays four or five. The Cassique possesses a great variety of loud calls and whistles, some of which are very musical. In the nesting season the male, which is noticeably larger than the female, has the singular habit of bending low his head while uttering a long-drawn creaking call, which he follows by flapping his wings violently together over his back. A bird in the upper part of the group is represented in this act. The present species of Cassique is found throughout South America from southern Brazil northward to Panama, an allied species extending northward to Me?cico. Poised before the orchid (Miltonia Candida) which appears in this group is a Hummingbird (Florisuga mellivora), while on the ground an Ant-Thrush (Formicarius analis saturatus) may be seen. The positions of the Cassiques, the Hummingbird and the Ant-Thrush in relation to their surroundings, illustrate the facts that brightly marked birds are, as a rule, found in the trees among leaves and blossoms, while the dull-colored species usually live on or near the ground. The nests here shown w^re collected in Trinidad by Mr. A. B. Carr. The group was prepared at the Museum under the direction of Mr. J. D. Figgins and has been placed in the general collection of birds, Hall No. 208 of the second-floor. North Wing.
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MUSEUM NEWS NOTES. )HE Library has received as a gift a copy of the catalogue of the Heber R. Bishop collection of jade. This unrivaled collection was presented by Mr. Heber R. Bishop during his life time to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where it has been installed in a room prepared for it at the expense of the donor. This catalogue is the most thorough investigation of the subject of jade and jade implements which has been undertaken, and it is considered to be the most magnificent example of the art of book-making which has been attempted in modern times. The

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