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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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tly along now andthen finding a set. He succeeded incollecting two showy sets of TurkeyVultures and a set of Blacks. Wenever had a set time to get back tothe car. Oh! Excuse me I nevermeant car. I meant to say Ford.Well Mr. Maxon makes this tin Lizzieof his do nearly everything but huntand climb hawks nests. We bothgot back to the Lizzie at about thesame time. Homeward bound wellsatisfied, as we got what we wentafter. We hope all collectors goodluck this season. I collected a set ofBelted Kingfishers near my camps,and a full set of seven. Incubated?Yes, thats my luck, so bad that Icould not blow them. Ramon Graham.Texas Bird Notes, 1920. On Sunday, FebruaiT 22d, a flock ofabout 30 ducks were seen flying downthe River past this village by HenryWeber. He says they were flying low,about 200 feet up, and were good sizedducks, although he could not tell towhat species they belonged. This is something unusual as wevery seldom see ducks before the mid-dle of March. C. W. Pelton.Nekoosa, Wis.
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Birds of Brooks Co., West Virginia Caroline Wren, Male Drawn from life for The Oologist By Geo. W. Sutton. 7C THE 00L0GI8T ARCH-DEACON A. R. HOARE MUR-DERED. The Chicago Tribune of May 12thcontained the tollowing:Starts With Slayer Son on 150 MileTrip Over Ice to Jail. Seattle, Wash., May 10.—The Rev.A. R. Hoare an Episcopal missionaryin Alaska for twenty years, was shotand killed at Point Hope April 27 byJames McGuire, Jr., 18 years old, sonof the superintendent of education atKotbegue, Alaska, according to a wire-less despatch received here today. The boy was taken into custody byhis father and is now a prisoner ona dog sled crossing the snow and iceto the nearest United States marshalat Candle, 150 miles distant. It isbelieved he is demented. It was said that the Rev. Mr. Hoaremet the boy on a trip outside lastsummer and induced him to go intothe north with him as his assistantlast fall. As many of our readers know Rev.Hoare, has for a number of years beena close personal friend

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