. The Audubon magazine . e with sev-eral painted buntings. They soon becameaccustomed to each other, the Grackleevincing no desire to molest its smaller com-panions. I saw it when it had already beencaged upward of four months, and had thesatisfaction to hear it sing repeatedly. Itfrequently uttered its traveling was fed entirely on rice. This was theonly specimen 1 ever saw in captivity, andit proved a very amiable companion. Wil-son also speaks of these birds in captivity,and says that they are readily tamed. The plate of the Rusty Grackle, whichaccompanies this account of the
. The Audubon magazine . e with sev-eral painted buntings. They soon becameaccustomed to each other, the Grackleevincing no desire to molest its smaller com-panions. I saw it when it had already beencaged upward of four months, and had thesatisfaction to hear it sing repeatedly. Itfrequently uttered its traveling was fed entirely on rice. This was theonly specimen 1 ever saw in captivity, andit proved a very amiable companion. Wil-son also speaks of these birds in captivity,and says that they are readily tamed. The plate of the Rusty Grackle, whichaccompanies this account of the bird, is areproduction of Audubons illustration ofthe species. The Rusty Grackle is 9^ inches in lengthand is 14 inches in alar extent. The fullplumaged male is everywhere deep glossyblack, with some greenish and bluish re-flections. The female is brownish black;the sides of the head above and below theeyes are light yellowish brown, and all thefeathers are edged with brownish. The eyeis pale yellow, bill and feet 0 r SPENCER F. BAIRD. BY the death of Professor Spencer Ful-lerton Baird,which occurred at WoodsHoU, Mass., on the 19th August last, Amer-ica has lost one of the greatest men andmost efficient scientific workers this conti-nent has given birth to Professor Baird was for many of thelater years of his life the Secretary of theSmithsonian Institution, and United StatesCommissioner of Fish and Fisheries, andin each of these offices he perfected so ex-cellent an organization of men and means,and achieved such important results, thathis claim to name and fame might verywell have rested on his achievements ineither department. But when we considerthat, valuable as were his labors in these im- portant offices, they were but a small frac-tion of his lifes work, that as a scientificman his writings had brought him world-wide fame, that the catalogue of his pub-lished contributions to science embracedov^r a thousand titles, and that of everysubject of which he wrote he d
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