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LAND BIRDS 



climb. Of one such exploit Mr. 

 ard writes in " The Con- 

 1902, as follows : 



"April 18, I secured 

 dred feet of inch-and- 

 rope, and we again 

 way to the cliff. On ":^^^>;, 

 top of the ridge we 

 way down to the edge 

 where a bunch of oak 

 growing. We tied the 

 and I slid down it thirty 

 projection. I was then 

 the nesting cavity j 

 hung considerably, 

 side was a crevice in 

 rope over a point 

 down it, which I 

 nest. It was 

 I made my way 

 I held the rope 

 points of rock 



using my feet 

 my hand- 

 enough to 

 and some- 

 the cavity 

 four feet 

 the solid 

 a few J J 



0. W. How- 

 dor," May, 



one hun- 

 a-quarter 

 made our 

 reaching the 

 made our 

 of the cliff 

 trees were 

 rope to oaks, 

 feet to a shelf-like 

 standing just above 

 where the cliff over- 

 About four feet to one 

 the rock, and by jerking the 

 above me I could let myself 

 did to a point opposite the 

 rather a risky undertaking as 

 along the face of the cliff, and 

 in one hand and the sharp 

 in the other, at the same time 

 to steady myself. By keeping 

 hold I could lean over just far 

 see that the nest contained eggs, 

 how managed to squeeze into 

 head first. The nest was about 

 from the entrance in a depression in 

 rock, with no nesting material except 

 - feathers of the old bird and small 



35.5. Prairie Fai.oox. 



^*Not even the bald eagle 

 can strike such terror to a 

 ffnrk of tjrou^fi." 



