The oist (1886) (14563932140) - Public domain zoological illustration

Identifier: oist40albi (find matches)
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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l. The Guano Island Company alsohave the concesson for the guanomade by the Dykers,—cormorants,—on the island. These are there alsoin limitless numbers, on another partof the island, and would well repaythe photographng naturalist for avisit to this interesting place, ifnever a penguin were to be seen. The penguin is a funny birdThough it is feather and not furredIt cannot fly but walks on earthWith motions weird that merit mirth.Though it has feathers and not scalesIt beats the flsh that swims or sails.Its back is dark; its breast is white;When on the ground it stands up-right;It stands around with penguin pals,Or with the feathered beaux and gals,In such a way, by dint of dress,And posture, that I must confess,It looks like man in evening clothes,From stem to stern, from head to toes.Although the while the weirdest wailComes from our social penguin hale.May this the explanation be?—Is not a college penguin he,Engaged in singing college glee? KENNETH T. REDICK. tHE OOLOGISt 11?
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5- a 3C/) ^ o I■♦J CO c re Z o^O != -M CD CO ql re 118 tHE OOLOGlSt NOT MUCH ARCHITECTURE HERE July 1st, we saw a female Indigobird crouched on a little mass ofgrass, four feet up in some canebrakes, about twelve yards from thewaters edge, along a large creek bot-tom. She was covering three fresheggs in what proved to be a flimsy,shallow, almost transparent nest.Had the parent not been at home,I might have questioned the genuine-ness of the nest which bore no evi-dence of having been attached to orwoven about the stalks which sup-ported it. As the species had eggsin May, it might be safe to presumemisfortune had befallen this particu-lar individual. The urgency for somereceptacle for the eggs might haveprevented the time and pains usuallydevoted to nest building. A moresubstantial home may be built be-tween now and the date of hatching.I shall endeavor to visit the spotagain and ascertain if the nest isstill slovenly. G-ERALD ALAN ABBOTT, Glasgow, Ky. RARE WARBLER NESTS It may be