Photo by Howard H. Ck-avL-s 

 THE DECOY GOLDFISH AFTliK TllK EXPERIMENT 



Showing how fins were all torn away by hawk's talons, and scratches and scars on the back 

 of the fish. The anchor stone, thread, and nose-string are also to be seen 



the writer can recommend the following 

 specific localities and general regions : 



Seal Island, Nova Scotia, for the her- 

 ring gull, black guillemot, Leach's petrel, 

 eider duck, Bicknell's thrush, blackpoll 

 warbler, and yellow-billed flycatcher. 



Lake George, Nova Scotia, for the 

 great black-backed or minister gull. 



Muskeget Isle and Marthas \'ineyard, 

 Massachusetts, for the Wilson's or com- 

 mon tern, least tern, piping-plover, black 

 duck, and laughing gull. 



Gardiners Island, New York, for the 

 fish-hawk, black-crowned night heron, 

 common and roseate terns, piping-plo\'er, 

 short-eared owl, parula warbler, and Bar- 

 tramian sandpiper. 



Cobbs, Wreck, and Little Isaacs isl- 

 ands. Cape Charles, Virginia, for the 

 black skimmer, or flood gull, laughing 

 gull, clapper rail, and common tern. 



And the coast of South Carolina for a 



distance of 60 or 70 miles north of 

 Charleston for the willet, Wilson's plover, 

 oyster-catcher, royal tern, least tern, 

 snowy and American egrets, Louisiana, 

 little blue, black-crowned night, and little 

 green herons, brown pelican, black skim- 

 mer, anhinga, or snakebird, etc., and 

 many, many land birds, including the in- 

 comparable painted bunting. 



To even begin going into a detailed de- 

 scription of the home life of one of these 

 wonderful creatures would require more 

 space than could be allowed in a general 

 magazine article. The writer can there- 

 fore but urge the reader to spurn the 

 summer hotel, with its pomp and artifi- 

 ciality, charter for himself a modest sloop 

 or power-boat, and make his way through 

 lagoons and tide-rips to these isolated 

 islands, and follow the picturesque chan- 

 nels of the salt marsh in quest of the 

 bird-inhabited bars and reefs. 



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