, 1885-03-12
NESTS AND BIRDS.
THE TRIUMPH or AN oRNlTHoLoe-
IcAL OHIO FAMILY.
How the Work "Sests and Birds Of
Ohio" Was Brought Out-Rsproduc-
tIons of the Exact shades
Of Nature.


In va encountered IL tha 90 narh.n. ~
most nleasant Instance was thnt N an orni.
tholoeicaI family at CircleviIle. There re-.
sides a rbvsIcian M Jonas Who fortv or
more years ago studied mediciue in Cleve-
land. and married there a Miss Smith. whose
parent came from Massachusett They
had two children. one Of whom is stfl Nv.
ing, and Is his fathers associate In practlce.
and a lecturer on phvsiolo0y before the med
ical collage at olumbus-Dr Howard Jonea
Several YEAR ago brother and sister wers
were riding In the vicinity Of CfrclsyilIe.
and they came to a birds nest with enes
In IL
aWhat kind of a mast IL thisr, said thu
sister.
AZ don't know.ps aid the brother.
avon don't know what kind of nest thia
fs-what kind OF .bird's-e9es these areln
asked the sister. II should think YOU would
find out from a book
There Is no such book said tho brother.
HYou really tell me that there Is no book
on birdis-nesfs and birdis-eRes. by which You
can tell one nest from anotherrf
aNo: there Is no such book in the United
States There ara books on birds. but not on
blrd,s-nests
aWell.p said she. II think II 1 we're n man
l would make a book to tell about such
thinesn
Not long after the brother remarked: aIf
you will draw those nests aud eggs / viii go
and hunt them.p
He was an earnest hunter in the Scioto
bottoms, as well as a good fisherman. The
sister said she would like to undertake that
work. So the Young doctor began system-
niatlcaIly to study the species OF Ohio birds,
and be carefully procured these nests, gen.
eraIlv bringing them In with the bush or
bark or ground, or even the earth stuffed
around them whore they were found, and
he also brought the eggs in all their
v~arieties from the largest size. and those
most distinctly marked with spots or
colors down to the smallest eggs and the
palest onos. These nests, exactly as they
were made with whatever the birds used,
whether hair or wool or twigs or degluted
pieces Of bark, were then drawn, being ac-
curately measured, and in course of time
propositions were made to ave them pub.
lished. 1t was found tina to engrave them
on stone would take a considerable amount
OF money. II then occurred to the young
man that he could buy the photographic
stones and nave them drawn on the stone.
He himself Is a fair artist, and has painted
in very perfect color and style tho
wild ducks Of the 6cioto, with land
scape surroundings, quite as clever, it
seems to me, as any thing in Audubon
The sister commenced, with the help Of a
friend, 10 make these photographic dra wings,
and they had the letter-press made In Gin
cinnati, and the book appears in numbers,
with some thirty or forty subscribers, who
paid the small sum, for a work OF that labor,
OF about s1l9 apiece. Tho work was to be
finished in about forty parts. After the first
number had appeared the young lady died
Of typhoid fever. 1t left the work in a state
of chaos, but her mother, grieving for her
loss and wondering where TO turn her mind,
concluded to continue the task.
The consequence has been the publication
Of nearly all these numbers They make a
splendid book OF the largest size; the sheets
are a foot~and-a-half to two feet square. and
Mrs. Jones, with some lady associates, has
drawn these nests upon the stone, aud after
they have been printed has colored them by
hand, making the most beautiful reproduc-
tions OF the exact tones and shades OF nature
which can be seen In that style OF
art In the world. Every picture IS a
work OF art as well as a work OF alb
solute accuracy. In some cases there are loO
tWiRs in each nest, and every twlg mas been
copied literally in all Its proportions, meas
ured with the dlviders lnoy nave peen put
upon the finest English artists paper IN the
very best British water colors, and you can
Imagine the extraordinary amount OF TINS
labor when you multiply the number OF
copies OF the work by the number OF plates;
If there are two pictures in zach number
there would be forty times eighty pictures
1 am not sure Wnotner encn NUMBER CONTAINS