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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



A VIEW FROM THE MAIN ROAD. 



with a net fit in the perfect scheme of 

 care and study of birds. 



It was thus a busy and yet harmo- 

 nious place that I found after four miles 

 of dusty road from Delaware Water 

 Gap (four hours from Hoboken on the 

 Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad) 

 up over the hills to Shawnee-on-Dela- 

 ware. 



Here is a bird home, not a bird prison. 

 The cages are large. The ground is as 

 grassy as that of the fields in the valley, 

 and small trees and shrubbery grow 

 within the cages as luxuriantly and 

 naturally, even if not so large, as in the 



supplemental grounds of ten thousand 

 mountain acres of forest and fields. 

 This extensive territory is utilized in 

 the study of birds in their native hab- 

 itat. The cages are the apartments of 

 a luxurious bird hotel for the special 

 care of those who become more inti- 

 mately acquainted. 



The establishment was started in 

 September, 1904, with a nucleus of Mr. 

 Earl Dodge Scott's private collection of 

 live birds moved from Princeton Col- 

 lege. Mr. Scott was curator of the 

 Museum at Princeton. The caged birds 

 were his personal hobby and property. 



THE CAGES THAT ARE IDEAL BIRD HOMES. 



