Reports of Field Agents 



423 



ENTRANCE TO THE AMSTON EXPERIMENT STATION. 

 Photograph by H. K. Job. 



been given, both with lantern-slides and with motion-pictures. A new illus- 

 trated lecture circular has been published and is being sent out. 



A considerable number of new bird photographs have been made for the 

 Association, and also a number of new film subjects. Among the latter are the 

 following: Large concourses of wild Geese and Swans on the coast of Virginia, 

 taken on a trip for the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey, in March, 1917; a 

 large Tern colony on an island off the coast of Connecticut; a Duck 

 Hawk feeding its young on a precipice; also a considerable series showing 

 work with wild Ducks, Quail, and small birds using nesting-boxes at 

 Amston. 



Considerable time and hard work have been given to the establishment and 

 development of the new Bird Experiment Station of the Association at Amston, 

 Conn., mentioned in the last report. The fencing in of the water-fowl pond 

 and swamp and the building of the aquatic house, under supervision of this 

 Department, were completed late last autumn. During the ensuing winter and 

 spring careful search resulted in the acquisition of breeding-stocks of fifteen 

 species of water-fowl, namely, Canvasback, Redhead, Ring-necked Duck, 

 Greater and Lesser Scaups, Black Duck, Wood Duck, wild Mallard, Pintail, 

 Baldpate, Gadwall, Blue-winged and Green-winged Teals, Mandarin Duck, 



