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periences, because of its novelty. Have the skipper 

 of the boat provide fish-livers to toll up the birds. 

 Crumbling the bait up fine, it should be dribbled out 

 astern as the boat sails, and, if there are any birds 

 within miles, they are almost sure to follow up the 

 boat and give great chances for pictures with the re- 

 flecting camera. 



In October, when the migration of wildfowl is at 

 its height, I would suggest a trip to some one of the 

 projections of land past which the fowl are accus- 

 tomed to fly each year. There the gunners usually 

 shoot from a line of boats at the passing flocks, an- 

 choring off at daybreak, a gunshot apart. Some 

 days, particularly if the wind be at all easterly, thou- 

 sands of fowl go by, mostly very early in the morn- 

 ing, but to some extent all day. Here one may see 

 the three kinds of scoters, both the scaup ducks, the 

 red-breasted merganser, oldsquaw, eiders, golden- 

 eyes, and occasionally any of the ducks, also the brant, 

 loon, red-throated loon, various gulls, jaegers, cor- 

 morants, gannets, sometimes auks, puffin, guillemots, 

 or flocks of Holboell's or horned grebes. 



One does not see all of these each day by any 

 means, yet in the course of various trips I have seen 

 them all and others. Such outings are certainly inter- 

 esting and exciting. For places to go I suggest 

 Manomet, Cohasset, and the vicinity of Cape Ann, 

 Massachusetts, and Cape Sable, Nova Scotia; there 

 must also be many good spots on the coast of Maine. 

 Points at least as far north as Maine have the ad- 



