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Bird - Lore 



The .'ulvanta^es which Professor Herrick's method of bird study offers 

 are obvious. It would have been ahnost impossible for a class of students 

 to become as intimate with Cedarbirds as we became by any other 

 method; every characteristic action, every posture, almost, is impressed on 

 our minds. My experience with the Chebcc, however, forces me to the 

 conviction that the method of controlling the nestinjj-site, of moving); it, 

 in other words, for the purpose of study and of photography from the 

 position which the bird has selected, is one which may, in careless hands, 

 be productive of a great amount of injury. I believe that only a trained 

 naturalist should use the method. Even he will probably have to buy a 

 little costly experience, but if he is animated by genuine love for the indi- 

 vidual bird, he will learn to guard against the dangers from heat, rain, 

 and desertion. It is emphatically not a method to be recommended to 

 the general public. 



An immature European Heron (Ardea cinerea) which flew aboard the steamship Glencartney about 



205 miles southwest of Cape Cormorin. at the southern extremity of India, and was brought 



to the New York Zoological Society. Photographed by C. William Beebe 



