BOOK NEWS AND REVIEWS 199 Newton's 'Dictionary;' Mrs Wright's 'Wabeno;' Cory's 'Birds of Eastern North America;' Book News.
AUDUBON DEPARTMENT Editorial: Reports from Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin Societies; The Passing of the Tern, illustrated.
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Photographed from life by H. W. Nash, Pueblo, Colorado]
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Curator of Birds, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.
Photographed from life by W. Gordon Smith]
In the Delaware river, just where it begins to widen out into the bay, and midway between the shores of Delaware and New Jersey, lie two long, low islands, known as 'The Pea-patch' and 'Reedy Island.'
Early in the century the former of these was selected by the government as the site of Fort Delaware, and its importance advanced proportionately in the popular mind. Later on, the lower island, which already boasted of a light-house, became further dignified by the establishment of a quarantine station on its banks.
Although of little importance before the government claimed them, these islands were by no means uninhabited, but were, in fact, well-known as a winter resort. The early inhabitants, though much less imposing than the soldiers and health officers who have superseded them, did not fail to attract attention--even newspaper notoriety; not from their individualities, but from their countless numbers. In fact they were nothing more than ordinary, despised black Crows, but Crows in such countless numbers that they could not fail to be noticed.