1 70 



Bird -Lore 



The following groups have been completed: (i) Summer Bird-Life of 

 Cobb's Island, Virginia*; (2) A Flamingo Colony in the Bahamas! ; 

 (3) Summer Bird -life of an Irrigated Section in the San Joaquin Valley at 

 Los Bafios, Californiat; (4) Brandt's Cormorant, Monterey, California^; 

 (5) Sandhill Crane, Kissimmee Prairies, Florida; (6) Anhinga, in a 'bonnet' 

 {Nuphar) swamp, Brevard County, Florida; (7) Ward's Heron, Brevard 

 County, Florida; (8) Brown Pelican and Pelican Island, Indian River, 

 Florida; (9) Wild Turkey, Mountains of West Virginia; (10) Prairie 

 Hen, Sandhills of Nebraska; (11) Golden Eagle, Bates' Hole, Wyoming; 

 (12) Cactus Desert Bird-life, Tucson, Arizona. Others are approaching 

 completion, and it is hoped to finish the series in 1908. 



It should be added that the photographic reproductions here shown are 

 so far from doing justice to the originals that they serve only to suggest the 

 method of treatment, without conveying an idea of the remarkably success- 

 ful manner in which artist and preparateur have overcome the technical 

 difficulties encountered. 



*Figured 

 fFigured 

 JFigured 



n Bird-Lore, V, 1903, p. 108. 

 n Bird-Lore, VII, 1905, p. 201. 

 n Bird-Lore, VII, 1905, p. 202. 



Figured in Bird-Lore, VIII, 1906, p. 202. 



slate-colored junco and young 



Photographed by Thomas S. Roberts 



