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Title: The oist
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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mprising 6.50 sets and 1406eggs. It may be of interest to some of thereaders of THE OOLOGIST to knowof the measures taken by the Depart-ment of Commerce and Labor, for theprotection of our nsrtive birds on theReservations of the Lighthouse Es-tablishments. No one is allowed todestroy a bird or its nest, or nestingplace, and must protect the same asfar as possible. This was broughtabout through the doings of the Audu-mcn Society. The undersigned spent some time ona Reservation on the North side ofthe Gclden Gate Channel. Every even-ing as soon as the light was started,everv gull in the neighborhood wouldbegin flying around the lantern, alongup the shore aways, up over the rocksof the coast, out over the bay, andback by way of the channel, aroundthe lantern again. They would keepthis up for perhaps an hour or more.Among the most delightful trips I everhad. were the ones in interest ofBotany of Oology, taken in the wildrough region, along the Pacific, in California. Geo. W. H. Vos Burgh.
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THE OOLOGIST 25 The Domestication of AmericanWild Fowl. Upon the discovery of America, vastuncounted herds of bison roamed atwill over the middle parts of the con-tinent. The Great Auk, the Labra-dor Duck, and the Eskimo Curlewwere in multitudes along the Eastshore of our continent. The Califor-nia Condor soared in majestic cir-cles and in great numbers over themountains of the Pacific slope and un-numbered millions of Passenger Pig-eons migrated in flocks, darkening thesun for days at a time; and the beau-tiful colors of the Carolina Paraquetwere an everyday sight throughoutmost of the Eastern half of what isnow the United States. But they aregone. The Great Auk and the LabradorDuck are known only from a few, veryfew specimens preserved in Museums;the Eskimo Curlew and the Condor areon the verge of extinction: and a lasteffort is now being made to discoverwhether or not the Passenger Pigeonis or is not, and the Carolina Paraquetis not. One of the wonders of the early daywas the enorm

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