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Popular Science Monihly 



biooci.ij a hawK trom a motorcycle while riding at forty-live miles an hour. A nigniy 

 successful method of killing birds, employed by an enterprising Los Angeles taxidermist 



Shooting Hawks from a Fast Motor- 

 cycle While Traveling at Speed 



EVERETT COLBURN, a Los An- 

 geles taxidermist, has evolved a new 

 method of hunting hawks and other birds 

 of prey which is spectacular and hazard- 

 ous, but nevertheless efficient. 



Mr. Colburn, who is also a motor- 

 cyclist, noticed that often when he was 

 touring over the country highways, hawks 

 would frequently sit on telegraph or fence 

 posts at the side of the road and allow 

 him to pass on his machine. They had 

 come to regard the 

 machine as a harm- 

 less thing. So, by 

 way of experiment, 

 he constructed a 

 bracket on the top 

 of the gasoline tank 

 of his machine for 

 carrying a shotgun. 

 Then he set out over 

 the highways to see 

 what results could 

 be obtained. 



The first bird 

 sighted was a fine 

 red-tailed hawk that 

 sat on a fence post. 

 As the bird flew from 

 the [jost, Colburn, 

 speeding at forty- 

 fivf miles per hour, 

 grabbed his gun and 

 killed the hawk. 



This casement window is weather-tight and 

 is easy to open and close. It does not rattle 



The Windows Fold Back Out of the 

 Way and Let in the Au- 



ANEW type of casement window, 

 shown on the house in the accom- 

 panying illustration, overcomes several of 

 the ills that casements are heir to.. 

 While the windows are held rigidly at 

 both the top and the bottom, they may 

 be easily moved from side to side. When 

 shut they make a tight, weather-proof 

 joint. Thus there is an unobstructed 

 opening when the windows are opened 

 and a real window when they are closed. 

 Almost any style 

 of finish that is pos- 

 sible with other win- 

 dows may be used, 

 including the divi- 

 sion of the sash into 

 small panes or fitting 

 with art glass. Slid- 

 ing screens placed on 

 the inside next to 

 the screens are used; 

 the shades and dra- 

 peries are placed in- 

 side the screens. 

 This allows the ad- 

 jiistment of the 

 shades without open- 

 ing the screens, and 

 also prevents the 

 shades and draperies 

 from being blown 

 outside when the 

 window is open. 



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