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there, and that we might expect to meet with them in our walks afield. We 

 had not long to wait, for the very next day we saw several Turkeys walking 

 in the grove, and they were in no particular hurry to get out of our way. They 

 would run, it is true, upon our approach, and were not more than tame, as 

 were the Turkeys at Everglade; but, nevertheless, through the wise policy of 

 the managers of the grove, they were not very much afraid of man. 



Our food was cooked on an open log fire under a shed, and we dined in a 

 little building near the cook-house. One morning, one of the tamest of the 

 gobblers came near this house to get the crumbs that had been thrown out, 

 and I was able to get two snapshots with the camera from the open door. 



One hears a great deal, and it is true, about bird life having a hard time 

 of it in the South, where almost everything is shot at, often for the mere 

 sport of shooting a living thing. It is encouraging, therefore, to find a place 

 where the Florida Turkeys are protected, and where these ornamental birds 

 add so much to the interest and beauty of an orange grove. 



Bird-Lore's Thirteenth Christmas Bird Census 



BIRD-LORE'S annual bird census will be taken as usual on Christmas 

 Day, or as near that date as circumstances will permit. Without wish- 

 ing to appear ungrateful to those contributors who have assisted in 

 making the census so remarkably successful, lack of space compels us to ask 

 each census-taker to send only one census. Much as we should like to print 

 all the records sent, we find it impossible to use two from the same person. 

 Reference to the February, igoi-1912 numbers of Bird-Lore will acquaint 

 one with the nature of the report of the day's hunt which we desire; but to 

 those to whom none of these issues is available, we may explain that such 

 reports should be headed by a brief statement of the character of the weather, 

 whether clear, cloudy, rainy, etc. ; whether the ground is bare or snow-covered, 

 the direction and force of the wind, the temperature at the time of starting, 

 the hour of starting and of returning. Then should be given, in the order 

 of the A. 0. U. 'Check-List' a Ust of the species seen, with exactly, or approx- 

 imately, the number of individuals of each species recorded. A record should 

 read, therefore, somewhat as follows: 



Yonkers, N. Y. 8 a.m. to 12 m. Clear, ground bare; wind west, light; temp., 38°. 

 Herring Gull, 75. Total, — species, — individuals. — James Gates. 



These records will be published in the February issue of Bird-Lore, and 

 it is particularly requested that they be sent the editor (at the American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York City) not later than December 28. 

 It will save the editor much clerical labor if the model here given and the order 

 of the A. 0. U. 'Check-List' be closely followed. 



