. The Wilson bulletin . Young Black Vultures {Catharista atrata). By \V. J. Hoxie. but ornithology had given him up when it became a questionof bread and butter. As a taxidermist, he failed to settledown in any place ; in fact, could not get altogether suited asto locality. I do not knew whether he is living at this date. Hebegan just before the GOs. and kept up a pretty steadycorrespondence with Prof. Baird and Dr. Coues. A Yankee G8 TiiF. Ullletix—No. 59. schoolmaster, locating near Frogmore, S. C. in the palmyclays of the O. and O., he wrote many entertaining andinstructive papers,
. The Wilson bulletin . Young Black Vultures {Catharista atrata). By \V. J. Hoxie. but ornithology had given him up when it became a questionof bread and butter. As a taxidermist, he failed to settledown in any place ; in fact, could not get altogether suited asto locality. I do not knew whether he is living at this date. Hebegan just before the GOs. and kept up a pretty steadycorrespondence with Prof. Baird and Dr. Coues. A Yankee G8 TiiF. Ullletix—No. 59. schoolmaster, locating near Frogmore, S. C. in the palmyclays of the O. and O., he wrote many entertaining andinstructive papers, seeming to see the joke in everythingIX)ssihle. In July. 88, the U. S. Department of Agricultureemploved liini to collect in Florida at $75 per month and ex-penses to Titusville. He was to look up certain species and. \oung Black Vultures ( atrata) Asleep in their W. J. Hoxie. visit certain localities at his own expense from there. Atonce he met difficulties: predatory mammals, birds and insects•made away with nearly all trapped specimens, sometimes trapand all: skins were devastated by small ants and giganticcockroaches; expenses exceeded salary; so reducing his bag-gage to a minimum, he departed for Cape Canaveral with 100 Burns, on Walter J. Hoxie. G9 rounds of ammunition, of which he scarcely wasted a shot;and hved on shot meat to recuperate his finances. Yellowfever breaking out, Jacksonville and counties in Floridaquarantined against one another; so it was some time beforehe could make his way into the interior and take the desiredspecimens of the Florida Burrowing Owl and Little StripedSkunk (his description of the breeding habits of the former isquoted by Bendire in his Life Histories), and we hear of himwading the swamps north of Okeechobee bare-legged, in com-pany wi
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