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in for mouiiling and he is able to control, in a measure, illegal shooting hy refus- 

 ing to mount the specimens shot and reporting them to the county warden. 



As an instance of establishing a local record — word was brought to him 

 during the January zero weather that from three to live Wilson's Snipe were 

 living in a marsh meadow one-fourth of a mile away. The first impulse was to 

 laugh at the report, but as the boy's story was backed up by others, our 

 warden went to investigate. The Snipe were there and a record established, 

 the secret of the open bit of marsh being the exhaust-steam pipe from a 

 nearby factory which kept open ground for the Snipe through this bitter 

 winter. 



First and last, Birdcraft is proving itself a place to answer truly the ques- 

 tions of the bird-lover and student, questions asked both by eye and tongue, 

 and to help its visitors think for themselves. Is not this "making good"? 



Little by little native butterflies and moths will appear in the study case and 

 some of the vanishing wild flowers find their natural habitats in the Sanctuary, 

 so that the economic relation between flowers, insects, and birds, may be made 

 ])lain, but this will be another story. Nature's plan is eternity!. 



ONE PIPE FOR TWO.— A CHICKADEE SHARES THE WARDEN'S CORN-COB 



