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them for any cause, and, if well fed, the young at this age will 

 hardly succumb to the heat of the sun though subjected to it for 

 several hours. 



The advantage in using a tent lies not alone in the fact that 

 better photographs can be secured by this method than by any 

 other. Here the student of bird life, working only a few feet from 

 the nest, all unobserved by the birds, can see and study all that 

 goes on at the nest as the birds go about their household duties, 

 feeding and caring for their young. He who has not had the op- 

 portunity of thus living with the birds has a pleasure still awaiting 

 him that is well worth the seeking. 



No. 1. Bringing down young Cooper's hawks. 



Of all the birds that frequent the forests of Ohio none is more 

 wary or more distrustful of man than is Cooper's hawk. On the 

 10th of July, 1904, I found the nest of a pair of these birds placed 

 some sixty feet up in the forks of a large white-oak tree. The nest 

 contained young, and to secure photographs of the birds and nest 

 in its natural situation was utterly impossible, so I determined to^ 

 bring the nest and young birds down to a position where I could 

 make use of my tent. Accordingly, some fifty feet distant from 



