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birds soon become accustomed to this tent, and even will alight 

 upon it. For several evenings it was the favorite perch of a 

 screech owL From it I have watched the shore birds and seals 

 on barren islands. In it I narrowly escaped being run over by 

 two deer. The puma has circled around it, and once a wildcat 

 actually walked on it, stepping on my breast. 



Umbrella and cover cloth. 



The blind in position. 



"Hides" and "Blinds." 



From such a tent, or from a screen of netting, you may 

 watch the ruffed grouse, or partridge, and her callow brood. 

 You may camp by a heronry and see the old birds come 

 and go and feed their young. I have camped on a small dry 

 mud bank in a great swamp, with no other dry land for miles 

 around, being entertained by the nightly concerts of mos- 

 quitoes, ducks, herons, frogs and alligators, without the least 

 discomfort or inconvenience. 



There are shelters in which one may remain concealed, 

 varying in construction from the log camp of the sportsman to 

 the bough camp of the Indian or the "hide" or "blind" of the 

 gunner. The umbrella blind used by bird photographers is an 

 excellent device for watching birds if set up in the shade. In 

 full sunlight on a hot day it is about as comfortable as a 

 Turkish bath. If the birds to be watched are very wary, it is 



