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shade. To make it possil)le to use a quick exposure, light is thrown from a 

 large mirror, controlled from the window where the push-buttons are located. 

 The fifth feeding-station is in the middle of a pasture-lot about five hundred 

 feet from the window. It is surrounded with a fence, to keep the cattle from 

 disturbing the camera. The food used is seeds, crumbs, and meal worms. 



WHITE-THROATED SPARROW 

 HOUSE SPARROW 



SWAMP SPARROW 



Meadowlarks, Sparrows, Crows, and Flickers have used this station so far. 

 Other birds of the fields are expected in due time. 



A sixth station is located about eight hundred feet away. A limb is driven 

 into the ground. A hole is bored in the top and two other holes are bored 

 in the side of the limb. The stick is three inches in diameter and extends 

 about sixteen inches above the ground. English walnut meats are put in the 

 hole in the top. Red-headed Woodpeckers are constant visitors when this 

 food is used. Doughnuts and seeds are placed in the holes in the sides. Crows, 

 Meadowlarks, Crackles, the various Sparrows, have already visited this sta- 

 tion. It was set up for the purpose of attracting Pheasants, Quail, and those 

 birds that keep away from the buildings. Of course, the other more familiar 

 birds were to be expected. 



The seventh circuit does not run to a feeding-station. The apparatus is 

 placed in the top of an oak tree sixty feet from the ground. Three ladders 

 permanently mounted in the tree make the ascent easy and rapid. The 

 camera is focused on the end of the tallest limb in the tree, all others limbs 

 near having been cut out. This tree has for j/ears been the lookout for a great 



