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FEEDING YOUNG WILD GEESE: WESTERN CANADA 



or seated upon the nest, as the camera 

 pictured the scene. From here Mr Chap- 

 man went to the sage-brush plains of 

 Wyoming, where he made a study of the 

 sage-grouse, the largest of North Ameri- 

 can game birds, with the exception of 

 the wild turkey. 



Another trip was made to the rolling 

 plains of western Canada, at Crane Lake, 

 Saskatchewan, where the wild fowl were 

 studied and a collection of specimens 

 made for the Wild Goose and Grebe 

 Groups. 



Then a trip was made to the Pacific 

 Coast, where, in consequence of the 

 widely varying climatic and physiographic 

 conditions, a wonderfully rich fauna ex- 

 ists ; for among the birds there are over 

 500 species and subspecies in California 



alone, or nearly one-half the number 

 known in all North America. 



On this expedition Mr Chapman gives 

 an account of his efforts to photograph 

 the condor in the mountains near Pint 

 and his experiences with the shore birds 

 at Monterey, the Brandt's cormorants on 

 the rocky islets of the coast, concluding 

 with an account of California's most fa- 

 mous bird islands, the Farallones — 

 which are not only the largest in the 

 state, but in the Union — where he pic- 

 tures and describes the murres, as they 

 cluster by the thousand upon the rocky 

 promontories, the air filled with thou- 

 sands of western gulls, while, in smaller 

 numbers, the guillemots and the tufted 

 puffins were pictured on the inaccessible 

 cliffs, with the great waves of an unfet- 



