A LABRADOR SPRING 
streets and in other perching birds, and they 
were always held in front. 
The modern study of birds by means of 
powerful prismatic binoculars and occasionally 
of telescopes reveals much that was concealed 
from the students that depended on the naked 
eye and the loaded gun, and those who were 
brought up in the “ collecting age,’”’ unless they 
have fully adopted modern methods, are apt 
to look with some suspicion on those who use 
glasses. The student who leaves the gun at 
home or keeps it judiciously in the background, 
not only sees more with these glasses, but also 
with the naked eye, for the birds soon recognize 
the difference between the man with the gun 
and the man with the glasses, and behave 
accordingly, and this is a point that the old- 
time student does not appreciate. For years 
I never got nearer than a long gun-shot from 
an adult turnstone and never observed him 
for any length of time at that distance, but, 
since adopting modern methods, I have spent 
many interesting half-hours with these birds, 
at times so close that I could not focus my 
glasses on them, and have watched every detail 
of their actions in turning over seaweed and 
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