Show I 1 great bird collection given harvard museum thirty thousand mounted bird bird spee spec emens comprising perhaps the nn flu est existing private colleCt collection IoD of north american birds have been given to the museum of comparative zoology at harvard by its and collector john eliot thayer himself a harvard alumnus in addition to the he skins the contains also many thou thoua sands anila 4 m nests and eggs the thayer rolle fAlon brings to harvard a number in f price less specimens of birds now pa etl 1 ncr including the labrador duck me die passenger pigeon and the eskimo curlew there are also ten eggs af pf f the great auk extinct since 1845 and several california condor eggs the california condor la Is not extinct but bur Is exceedingly rare and its eggs or ar rarer still for the birds lays only one in two years |