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 192 Bird -Lore day he was placed in the garret, where he had a measure of dark- ness and plenty of wing room. Here he ate readily the beads of food that was left convenient, varying this occupation with the tearing to pieces of an old Cooper's Hawk skin. So far as I could judge, he ate only on alternate days. During the eight days of his sojourn with me, no increase of tameness was shown ; and he would fly when I came near, seeking the darkest cranny of the garret, scolding me often with the char- acteristic anger-note of all the smaller Hawks and Owls. Soon my captive found a permanent home in the family of the foster- father of Minnesota ornithology, where, I was soon informed, he became quickly domesticated, ^ — eating bits of steak from a chop-stick, beheading English Sparrows with neat despatch, and drinking from a teaspoon.

An ‘Advisory Council’
IT gives us unusual pleasure to announce a plan, the fulfilment of which, already assured, will, we believe, be of great assistance to bird students and exert an important influence on the increase in our knowl- edge of North American birds. Realizing from a most fortuiiate experience how itly the past-master in ornithology may aid the be- ler, we have felt that it would be an admirable scheme to form an 'Advisory Council,' composed of leading or- nithologists throughout the United States and Canada, who would consent to assist students by responding to their re- quests for information or advice, the student being thus brought into direct communication with an authority on the birds of his own region. The response to our appeal has been most gratifying. With- out exception the ornithologists whom we have addressed have cordially endorsed the proposed plan, and signified their willingness to cooperate with us in this effort to reach the isolated worker. Nearly every state in the Union and province in Canada has been heard from, and we expect in our next number to publish the names and addresses of the more than fifty prominent ornitholo- gists who will form Bird-Lore's 'Advisory Council.' — Ed.