Identifier: nidio34318951895coop (find matches)
Title: The Nidiologist
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Cooper Ornithological Club of the Pacific Coast
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Publisher: Alameda, Calif. : Henry Reed Taylor
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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The carp
constitutes probably the sole foodod of these Cor-
morants. They are easily taken by them for
they run up by thousands into the tules, where
they can be heard making a queer suckin
gnoise as they feed on the vegetation.
There is at least one more large rookery of
Cormorants on this lake. On the south side of
the Narrows, the channel connecting the
upper and lower portions of the lake, I discov-
ered an immense rookery in the low pines situ-
ated on a low slope at the waters edge. This
rookery occupies a place half a mile long. I
merely saw it, as I was with an excursion party
going round the lake.

CORYDON CHAMBERLIN.
San Jose, September 5, 1895.

We have been reading an editorial in one of our 0ö-
logical exclianges, and like Artemus Ward, when Mark
Twain gave him his famous description of the work-
ings of a mine, we know less at the end than at the
beginning. It seems to be dogmatical and categori-
cal, but by all the dogs and cats in Christendom it is a
puzzler! Its all Greek to us, though to others it maybe Latin.

THE NIDIOLOGIST 31
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AN ISLAND ROOKERY OF THE FARMALLON CORMORAN

32 THE NIDIOLOGIST

Ornithology Booming at Ann
Arbor.
EDITOR NIDIOLOGIST.
Dear Sir : Have just returned from a very
pleasant week spent at Ann Arbor, the seat of
the great University of Michigan, with it
stwenty-eight hundred students. Much time
was given to a study of the popular trend of
Ornithology at the University, as well as among
the collectors in and about the energetic city
which is its home.
The University museum has an immense col-
lection of mounted birds, many of which,
however, are foreign specimens from the Beal
and Steere collection, taken in the Philippine
Islands. The specimens are being carefully
rearranged with a view to making them more
valuable and complete as a reference collection
of native birds ; and group mounting, amid
natural surroundings, is here, as elsewhere, to
be the rule. A fine lot of mammals, etc., are
also in the museum, but our particular theme is
birds. It is with pleasure that I am able to state
that the study of natural history is becoming
more and more popular as the influence of the

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