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May 19 - Phila.
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Spent the evening with Stone
in calling on J. Parker Norris, Jr.,
who has an immense egg collection.
This man, and his father now dead,
have accumulated great series, often
a hundred sets of one species, of
birds of prey, waders, and other
tthings now scarce. I looked
especially for California material,
but found nothing of value
relative to California game birds.
But there are many sets of historic
interest, as taken in the 80's and
90's by Heller, Skinner, Herron, Haight,
Taylor, Barlow, et al. Lots of
White-tailed Kite, Golden Eagle,
Burr Hawk, + Prairie Falcon eggs
from California.
May 20
Very few of Rhoads' Skulls were
cleaned when he studied his collections,
only those he thought he needed. The