The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-09-26
new GROUPS OF BIRDS
Pacific Coast Specimens Col
lected by an Expert.
VARIOUS SECTIONS REPRESENTED.

Five interesting sets WIN BE Added
to the American Museum Of Natu-
raj history In New XoFk-Hov the
Material was Obtainea-EnA froR-
ments Of the birds closely studied.
Frank NJ. Chapman, the bird man at
tie American Museum Of Natural His
tory in New York, has returned from
his summer vacation with material for
five new bird groups Of tie Pacific I
coast. Mr. Chapman had all sorts Oh I
interesting experiences In gathering /
this material says the New York |
Times. lie was accompanied by q |
landscape artist to make studies 81 /
lie environment; preparation, with |
wax aud plaster molds, to make casts
OF such vegetation as could not be
bodily removed and preserved by
means Of the fluid used for the pur
pose, and bird artist to paint freshly
killed birds and retain the brilliant
colorlng. wlgfch fades in the dead speci-
men. This artist was Louis Agassiz
Fuertes. Mr.. Chapman collected the
material and photographed the birds,
with their nests and immediate en-
yironment
one of tile groups In contemplation
win be the largest and finest bird
group ever yet constructed anywhere
/ 1T win show the bird life Of the irri-
gated regions Of California which is
IN example of the changes wrought by
man among the little people Of woods
i and fields. The districts. formerly
1 arid. were destitute Of bird life. Water
has been turned ia in great quantities,
changing the arid valleys into pasture
lands covered with great herds Of cat
! tie. The water IS allowed TO stand on
certain sections to fertilize hem and
then drawn oil 10 others. IL its wake
have come enormous numbers Of water
birds. They follow the water as II Is
moved ana live and breed along the
frrieating bitches until these valleys
I once almost desert are alive with wa
ter birds
The group viii show various species
az Wild ducks, the glossy Ibis mot the
sacred bird Of EgypD, herons, eoots'
black terms, Forster's terms, ayoeeta
! SELLS. yellow headed blaekbirds and
kiIIdeer. These names sound famlhaf
But. with the exception Of the black
birds ana black terms, none Of tht
birds Ia found I'M the east, the Pacih'
5 aoast spacfes aH differing. The black
bird IL not a water bird, but IT stays &
q persistently among the weeds az tI'
e waters edge that it is characteristic 9
the scene
These birds are very shy, for the
a have vast areas Of solitude in when I
q i've. The particular company g
2 whose ranch Mr.. Chapman colleete
e this material controls 100000 acFe
y ia California.
Z This group will be twenty feet loil
e and eight feet high, larger tnan #
splendid Virginia coast groun, Whie
YEAS the banner group of last sea
Il The ranch. located IN the san Joaqul
ge valley. afforded d background Of u
g coast range piled majestically again
CT the horizon. This background wal
ia +he green. level, water laced irrigatf
~ lands iii the foreground, is now peh
70 painted in san Francisco by g leg
ra artist familiar with the color effects
sA The region and tile means Of reprodn
9 ing them.
ne Tie second fine group win show s.
moranfs Oh a rock as they swarm
the Ciiff House In san Francisco Of
the rocks of Cyprus point, at Mohl
.ry rev Rather than try 70 repfodu
he those great rocks In miniature, i 2
ill haen thought best to show q section
ao one. with the painting showing I
I'M great sea grit rock in the baekgfonI
nd Sqhe cornorant Is very much IKE
large duck. a life size eoFinplo
DIR head. painted BY Mr.. Fuertes' she'
lat the value Of the bird artists work
1u sucb q case. The bird puffs out b
enc m its throat. evidently for purposes
sly. display. This bag, a brilliant blue
irst color dries away in the dead spe
.ed men. leaving the painting the o.
Aft models
lest Material for a group Of mounts
1eF quail and sooty grouse was Aathel
er IL the sierras amid SURROUNDINGS
CIV. the most beautiful mountain scene
red ana then the party went up TO Py
ere mid lake. in Nevada. An island IN
! To lake IL d metropolis Of the pelican r.
her- one Of the last great Businesses Of
.efa bird world. Mr.. Chapman 4coun
satll 600 young pelieans upon It. +
t lit are white pelicans, differing from 4
famous cousins OF Pelican island.
NJ the Florida coast. The old birds ~
IRE eight feet from ftp to tip. VI
America was discovered this bird
Z found on the Atlantic coast i
wv. now confined to a few inaccessible
nv calities in the west.
Another coast region group vii
enc OF the yellow billed magpie,
/ ~" ta4 is exactly like the magpie Of the
49, s, world, except that its bill il vel
It has never been found outside Of
tain regions Of California, and
I. rapidly becoming extinct in those
Two ing to the poison the ranchmen put
7 file for gophers The magple eats e
are the poison or the poisoned grI
q III. squirrel and dies forthwith. Aith
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