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The scene is a rocky islet oft' the coast of Monterey, California, a 

 portion of which is here reproduced, with an ocean view for a 

 background. 



Summer Bird-life of an irrigated portion of the San Joaquin 

 Valley, California. Background by Carlos Hittell. Birds by 

 H. C. Denslow. — As the title implies, the site is an artificially 

 flooded area on the San Joaquin River, which forms a resort for the 

 nesting of a considerable variety of wading and swimming birds. 

 The 15 species represented in the group, which has an area of 8 by 

 20 feet, include Avocets, Stilts, Killdeer Plovers, Black and Forster 

 Terns, Black-crowned Night Herons, White-faced Glossy Ibises, 

 Coots, Mallards, Cinnamon Teals, Pintail Ducks, Ruddy Ducks, 

 and Fulvous Tree Ducks. The pools of water and aquatic plants 

 merge effectively into the background. The view is westward, 

 over marshes and fields, to the Coast Range, prominent in the 

 distance. 



A Flamingo Colony in the Bahamas. Background by L. A. 

 Fuertes (birds) and Carlos Hittell (landscape). Birds by Herbert 

 Lang. — Scene, a key in the Bahamas; theme, a Flamingo city. 

 The size of the group is 8 by 20 feet, in which are placed 1G old 

 birds, and 18 young birds of different ages, interspersed among a 

 dozen or more of the close-set, raised mud nests and small mangrove 

 bushes, so arranged that birds, nests and mangroves merge imper- 

 ceptibly into the background of an immense colony of Flamingoes, 

 the whole representing, with wonderful realism, an actual "Fla- 

 mingo city." The pink color and the outlines of the birds gradually 

 fade out in the distance. The sea and a distant green islet studded 

 with palms form the horizon line, while a long file of flying birds 

 stretching across the sky illustrates the manner of flight of these 

 great ungainly but beautifully tinted creatures. The great variety 

 of positions given to the birds are from photographs from life. 



Boobies and Man-o'-War Birds. Background by Bruce Horsfall. 

 Birds by Herbert Lang. — The locality is Cay Verde, a coral islet 

 in the Bahamas, some two hundred and thirty miles southeast of 

 Nassau. The common West Indian Booby and the graceful 

 Man-o'-War Bird are well-represented by both young and adult 

 birds, the former species nesting on the ground, the latter in dense 

 growths of bushes ('sea-grape') and cactuses. The inflated 



