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Before allowing him to leave us, we secured a number of photographs 

 of him in various attitudes. Two of these, those showing the two birds, 

 have created considerable interest among others and amusement to us. 

 I am pleased to see that our subscribers are unusually observant. Of 

 the replies as to which of these birds is alive, that have arrived up to the 

 time of going to press, eighty-eight have guessed wrong and one hun- 

 dred and twenty-four have chosen the correct bird. The Hawk on the 

 left is Pidgy. We were very fortunate in securing the photo shown in 

 Fig. 2. 



It was taken in a dimly lighted room for fast work and the lighting 

 was assisted by means of several mirrors. Fortunately, just at the in- 

 stant of exposure, Pidgy's wings were at the upper end of their stroke, 

 and so are fairly sharp on the negative. To obtain this picture, the 

 mounted bird was placed an the stump, with a piece of meat under it. 

 Pidgy was brought in and placed on the other end of the stump. His 

 anger was aroused immediately at sight of the other Hawk apparently 

 feasting, while he had nothing. He uttered his challenging cry, made 

 one jump, seized the meat in one foot and with the other was preparing 

 to demolish the enemy, when the exposure was made. The other pic- 

 ture containg the two birds represents Pidgy as he looked after being 

 separated from his antagonist, and about to return to the attack. 



Chester A. Reed. 



Good Steak— but tough. 



