McGill Library’s extraordinary strengths in its ornithological collections, palm leaf manuscripts, Kashmiri lacquer and bible boxes are largely the result of the personal collecting of Casey Wood. He published many journal articles on the eye and on birds and he published important books. During his stay at the Vatican Library he translated the “De Arte Venandi cum Avibus” from Latin to English, published in 1943.
The collection include a young Peregrine Falcon in training, leashed to a weathering block and wearing hood, bell, jesses and, most importantly, an identification band from the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, indicating that it was legally acquired, a glove, a falconer bag, bells and many hood made by the German Otto Kals in 1930.