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was purchased in October, 1910, since which time Bird Haven has been prac- 

 tically neglected; though as a bird refuge it exists in intention, if not in fact. 

 The place is still 'taboo' to trespassers, at least it is so plainly stated on the 

 the warning signs still posted in conspicuous places; the barbed wires strung 

 on horizontal cleats spiked to the tops of the posts and projecting inside are 

 still in ])lace, and the gate locked. Only an occasional school-teacher with her 

 scholars, a picnic party, gunners, nut-hunters, bird-nesting boys, and other 

 odds and ends of humanity* have access (surreptitiously, of course) to its 

 sacred precincts. 



The story of Larchmound, the new place, will be told in the next chapter. 

 The third, and concluding article in the series will treat of the changes which 

 have occurred in southern Illinois bird-life during the past half century. 



*The boy who wants to cut a nice young cedar for a Christmas tree was nearly forgotten. 



KINGFISHER WITH SMALL SUCKER 

 Photographed by Arthur A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y. 



