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OUR FKATHERED FRIENDS 



proprietor of a great estate or the owner of a window-sill, can make 

 the acquaintance and win the confidence of hirds, adding them to his 

 circle of appreciative friends and charming visitors. 



George Shiras. 3rd, the inventor of flashlight photography of 

 wild animals and of methods of making animals and birds take their 

 own portraits, gives some useful hints on the latter subject. 



Utility, beauty, and art are ser^-ed alike when man befriends the 



birds. 



GiLBEirr Gkosvenok, 



Director and Editor. 



Photograph hy Howard H. Cleaves 

 THIi EXCITEMENT OE TOUCHING THE ECCENTRIC WOODCOCK ON THE BACK 



