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our boat to a tree holding nests, Mr. Stoddard would make his perilous 

 climb, taking a rope along and then dropping one end. We tied to this 

 rope end a saw, camera or anything he needed for his work. Then as a 

 precautionary measure the boat was taken away to a safe distance for 

 fear that the tree might break or fall over. This did not happen, how- 

 ever, all the nests being lowered into the boat in perfect condition. We, 

 especially Mr. Stoddard, had put in a strenuous day, though everybody 

 enjoyed the work, and the weather man had been good to us. As is 

 shown in figure 19, Captain Keller had a capacity load to take back to 



Fig. 19. — Collecting material for the Museum's Cormorant group, 

 lumbia County, Wis. 



Co- 



Prairie du Sac ; it consisted of seven persons, four large Cormorants' 

 nests and one immense Great Blue Heron's nest with the parts of the 

 trees in which they had been built. There were also some large trunks 

 of trees and a large number of sections of trees in which woodpeckers 

 and other birds were nesting. Arriving at our landing place two miles 

 above Prairie du Sac we were met by Mr. Ochsner with his famous 

 "Lizzie". He never failed us. 



I never saw such loads piled inside and outside of a car before. 

 The inside was packed full, outside on the running boards were logs, 



