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Has A Family Of Kirtland's

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
July
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Taxidermist Wood Succeeds Securing One

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Got Parents, Two Young, an Egg and Nest of the Rare Species, for the U. of M. Museum

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What is considered a great find was brought to the University Museum Saturday by Norman A. Wood, the taxidermist. Some time in June a Kirtland warbler was brought to the museum from up north. It was already known that his particular bird lived in the Bahamas, but its nesting place was not known. Chapman, of the American Museum, in an article concerning this bird in "The Auk" of October 1898, writes: "We can now write 'Rare, nest and eggs unknown,' only of Kirtland's Warbler."

Those in charge of the museum after seeing the Kirtland warbler which was brought from the northern part of the state, at once sent Mr Wood to the place where the bird was found.

Saturday, Mr. Wood returned from a very successful trip. With him he brought the nest, the parent birds, two young and one egg of the Kirtland's warbler. The popular notion is that the bird is rare, but from a scientific point of view this is not the case. The important thing is, in the scientific world, that the nest of this bird has never before been seen, nor has its breeding place ever been known. This collection will be prepared for exhibition in the museum and is the only group of its kind in the world.

The nest was built upon the ground in the jack pine region. Sweet ferns and trailing arbutus were growing around the nest, while it is lined with pine needles and grass. Four square feet of the surrounding soil was brought down to the museum, so that the exhibition will show exactly how the bird lives. Fortunately, one egg did not hatch and was still in the nest with the two young birds and in procuring this there is nothing else to be known concerning Kirtland's warbler.

These specimens will be on exhibition in the bird room on the second floor of the museum after Wednesday.