. The Oist . e pricked a quantity ofstrychnine into 9 Alewives and leftthem on a sand bar where an Eagle resorted to feast on dead fish. The nextday Mr. Eagle and 4 Alewives lay sideby side. Now I will tell you how I killspecimens brought to me alive. I openthe mouth and drop into it from one tofour crystals of cyanuret of potassa ormore. Almost instantly the tail expandsand there is one quiver, and all is overwithout a struggle. I have in this waykilled quite a number of Eaglee thathave been brought to me winged. In-stances ai-e on record where this hasbeen taken by mistake for Iodide ofPotas
. The Oist . e pricked a quantity ofstrychnine into 9 Alewives and leftthem on a sand bar where an Eagle resorted to feast on dead fish. The nextday Mr. Eagle and 4 Alewives lay sideby side. Now I will tell you how I killspecimens brought to me alive. I openthe mouth and drop into it from one tofour crystals of cyanuret of potassa ormore. Almost instantly the tail expandsand there is one quiver, and all is overwithout a struggle. I have in this waykilled quite a number of Eaglee thathave been brought to me winged. In-stances ai-e on record where this hasbeen taken by mistake for Iodide ofPotassa (which it closely resembles,)causing instant death. A druggist putup a prescription for a child ; the fathersoon returned with the bottle, exclaim-ing, you have killed my child ! youhave killed my child ! The druggistreplied, it is impossible, the medicineis harmless ; and, to convince the fath-er, took a swallow from the bottle andimmediately expired. — Wm. Wood,East Windsor Hill, Conn. 92 THE OOLOOIST,. Tfte ©oto^ist FEBRUARY. 1881. OUR NEW VOLUME. WITH the commencement of of The Oologist we intend tointroduce some improvements. Itsname will be changed to The Ornith-ologist AND Oologist. The paperwill be somewhat enlarged and of a bet-ter quality. The type will be new, andthe press-work tirst class. Illustrationswill be used when necessary to illustratenew subjects. It will contain a recordof observations and discoveries in Or-nithology and Oology ; also experienceswith Ornithological specimens as Pets,Travels of Collectors, &c., ifcc. It willavoid the technical part of the scienceas much as possible, only using scientificterms in addition to the English will aim to be as near original as pos-sible, most of its contributors being act-ual collectors. The editor has accumulated a largeamount of original material and draw-ings by J. J. Audubon, Alex. Wilson,and others of our early Ornithologists,which will appear, if support sufficientis given to warrant th
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