CELA Bie LV 
WITH THE ISLAND BIRDS ONCE MORE: 
MIDDLE OF MAY 
To-DAY is a bright May day, notwithstanding 
that some threatening clouds look ominous 
away there in the south. No such con- 
siderations, however; daunt the ardent 
naturalist. It does not take us long to slip 
down to the waterside again, bent on ex- 
ploring more islands and on finding what 
other birds have therein made their nests. 
The boat is at her wonted moorings, so, 
armed as before with camera and slides, the 
islands soon are reached. Beautiful they 
are, reposing in a peaceful calm, the cool 
clear water rippling into wavelets where the 
wooded armlets do not stretch out far. 
In the shallows, rooted to the bottom 
where the banks shelve gently down, are 
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