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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



THE MOOSE BIRD OR CAMP ROBBER. 



Photographic Winter Studies of Birds. 



Elk City, Idaho. 

 To the Editor : 



As a suggestion to your readers that 

 the camera should not be laid aside 

 even for bird studies in the winter, 1 

 am sending to you a photograph oi a 

 Canada spruce grouse taken at a dis- 

 tance of only six feet from the camera. 

 The grouse is called fool hen in this 

 country, and deserves its name, be- 



cause it is so indifferent to the approach 

 of man, yet it seems well able to take 

 care of itself, as its numbers do not 

 diminish. 



Another study that I am enclosing 

 is a good character pose of a Clarke's 

 nutcracker, taken with a long focus 5 

 x 7 at a distance of ten feet ; time one- 

 twenty-fifth second, bright sunlight, 

 stop U. S. 8. The Clarke's nutcracker 

 is variously called moose bird, camp 

 robber, etc.. and is a native of the en- 

 tire Rocky Mountain section, frequent- 

 ing the high snow regions, and living 

 on insects, meat and small nuts. 

 Yours very truly, 



E. V. Bargamin. 



Where the Snow Packs are Deep. 



Rutland, Vermont. 

 To the Editor : 



The accompanying photograph is of 

 a snow pack at the end of a glacier, 

 and though small, it shows, to a cer- 

 tain extent, the amount of snow that 

 falls in this locality. 



Where this picture was taken the 

 average fall of several hundred feet 

 during the snow season was aug- 

 mented by the amount which is being 

 continually pushed from the mountain 

 tops. The crevices in these packs are 

 made by divides in the mountains, and 

 vary from fifty to a hundred feet in 

 width. A camera in this region is 

 cumbersome, hence photographs of this 

 type are not common. 



Your very truly, 



Franklyn Wade. 



THE CANADA SPRUCE GROUSE. 



