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THE GUIDK TO NATURE 



A Bird Home Among the Cat-tails. 



BY EDWIN h. JACK, PORTLAND, ME. 

 Photographs from life by the Author. 

 Almost everyone interested in orni- 

 thology knows the red-winged black- 

 bird, but owing to the general location 

 chosen by the bird for its nesting site, 

 few people have become intimately 

 acquainted with its "Home Life." For 



three successive years a number of 

 red-winged blackbirds had nested in a 

 small swamp a short distance from my 

 home. Their domestic life among the 

 cat-tails appeared so interesting and 

 picturescjue to me that this season I 

 introduced my camera into their sur- 

 roundings and succeeded in ol)taining 

 the studies here sfiven : 



THE HAUNT OF THE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD. 



