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LAND BIRDS 



climb. Of one such exploit Mr. 

 ard writes iu " The Con- 

 1902, as follows: 



"April 18, I secured 

 dred feet of inch-and- 

 rope, and we again ^v 

 way to the cliff. On ^'2^, 

 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 /-* ¥ 



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 



355. Pkairie Falcon. 



11 Not even the bald eagle 

 can strike such terror to o, 

 frock of arouse? 



