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Likely it is, too. that in the sale of some of these pictures he 

 was disappointed and did not succeed in getting a purchaser 

 for them. This is doubtless one faihng in that category, and, 

 never having been sold, drifted- eventually into the garret of 

 the Salem house. 



It is said that he painted such pictures with great rapidity, 

 and at different times early in his career, supporting himself 

 almost entirely by their sales. Few there are who know all 

 there is yet to be known in the life of that remarkable man, 

 and the making of these pictures is a bit of it. In fact there is 

 a whole lot of Audubonian history that the world is not, up to 

 this time, in possession of, that later on may possibly appear 



BIRDS SEEN ON THE OTONABEE RIVER, CANADA, 



IN AUGUST. 



BY FRANK N. SHANKLAND. 



Although home may be the best place in the world for a 

 person to spend the greater part of the year, it is a very poor 

 place to spend a vacation, for when vacation time comes, it is 

 nearly always desirable to seek fresh fields, where life has a 

 different flavor. Furthermore, if one is to derive the greatest 

 possible benefit from a vacation trip, he should by all means 

 have some definite object in view when he sets out. If he has 

 a fad or hobby, he should plan to give it much of his time 

 during vacation. Happy indeed is he who has a hobby which 

 will take him into the wilds of Nature. 



Owing to the fact that ornithology has always been the au- 

 thor's favorite recreation and pastime, he usually arranges to 

 spend his vacation in places where birds are abundant, and 

 where there is a possibility of making the acquaintance of 

 some species not foimd near his home in northern Ohio. One 

 of the pleasantest of all the vacation trips that I have ever 

 taken, was one to the Otonabee River in eastern Canada dur- 

 ing the summer of 1907. The objects of the trip were two- 



