Identifier: oist12albi (find matches)
Title: The oist
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin

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ound Sandpipers eggs withina yard of the edge of a lake, on a smallgravelly island not over six inchesabove the water in its highest part.Another queer situation was on a pileof drift wood and debris, while anothernest was on a log and quite a foot fromthe grountl. A great many nests of this specieshave come to my notice, but the mostpeculiar instance was the finding oftwo e(iually incubated sets in nests notover four feet apart. Eleven nests ofthis species were found in one field nextto a mill pond by two boys during MayJune and July. Peet weet feeds on worms, aquaticinsects and small raollusks, and is un-douljtedly bc^uelicial. It is too snuill belooked upon as game. But though be-neath tlie notice of upright gunners itstill offers attractions to ob.servers whoare interested in a study of our birds,and I know of very few of our feather-ed associates who offer a better oppor-tunity for investigation than our littleacijuaintancc, Tip-up. Morris Giubs,Kalamazoo, Mich. 84 VHh onLiKiivSI
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^~^-e^cyc ty/ .(^^CU.<^r^^^^z^<uD. THE OOLOGIST. 85 George N Lawrence- Mk. George N. Laavhexce, oue ofthe Founders and an Honorary Meioberof the American Ornithologists Union,and for some years a member of itsCouncil, died Jan. 17, 1895, at his resi-dence in New York City, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. Mr. Lawrencewas especially known as an authorityon the birds of tropical America, towhich hi? attention was chieHy givenduring the long period of his scientificactivity. As a writer on North Amer-ican birds he will be mainly remember-ed for his association with Baird andCassin in the authorship of the famousIX Volume of the Reports of Explor-ations and Surveys for aRailroad Routefrom the Mis.^issippi River to thePacilicOcean, published in 1858, to which Mr.Lawrence contriijuti-d the parts relatingto several orders of the Water Birds;andfor his well known Catalogue of Birdsobserved on New York, Long and Stat-en Islands, and the adjacent parts ofNew Jersey, published in 1866.

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