Sid not say mucH in regard to them. When 
we returned home, in looking over his 
memoranda he remarked that he wished 
very much he could find a copy of “Au- 
dubon,” as he felt certain these birds 
were strangers and for some unknown 
reason, had merely stopped on their long 
journey to the far north. I told him 
I had a complete set of “Audubon” and 
took him into the library. In a few 
minutes he was as triumphant a^ a school 
boy. “I w^as right,” he said. “I knew 
it, and it was very remarkable to have 
seen anything of this kind in this coun- 
try and especially these birds, which 
older hunters and experienced men had 
never seen before.” 
On another occasion my sons were 
running around on a little island and 
presently began waving for us to come 
ever. We immediately answered. When 
we got close to them, we saw them 
pointing to a bird on the ground, blended 
so well with oyster shells and debris 
that it was almost invisible unless you 
watched unusually closely. They mo- 
tioned to the Colonel to step up to the 
bird, and as he did so, it flew off its nest, 
fluttering along the way a great many 
birds do, simulating being badly wounded 
or crippled in order to lead us away 
from its nest. It was a Bull Bat or 
Nighthawk, and as the Colonel glanced 
at the nest, he remarked, “By Jove! 
This bird is hatching now.” 
Herbert K. Job, the nearest and pos- 
sibly the most famous bird photographer 
in the world, came in answer to our call, 
and fixed up his old green shade from 
which he made some wonderful pictures 
both of the bird returning to the nest, 
and then how we scared her off the nest. 
He made pictures of the two little Bull 
Bats breaking the shell of the egg, and 
to see the eggs divide was wonderful and 
interesting. Mr. Job photographed them 
with patience and a total disregard of 
mosquitoes or other conditions. 
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T he evening we returned to Pcss 
Christian, the Colonel went around 
my yard with a great deal of in- 
terest, and announced that he had found 
nests of twenty-seven varieties of birds. 
One in particular interested him very 
much — ^the Crested Flycatcher. I told 
him that the bird had nested there since 
I had had the place, and that only a few 
days before, had raised an entire brood 
of young ones which were now flying 
around the yard. He immediately asked 
me whether I had ever investigated the 
nest carefully myself. I told him no, 
and asked why. He stated that he had 
never found a single nest of the Crested 
Flycatcher that did not have in it a 
shed skin of a snake, and said, that he 
would like very much to see whether this 
nest, way down on the Gulf of Mexico, 
could be an exception. We got a ladder, 
and I took the nest out. Instead of hav- 
ing one skin in it, there were two, to 
|iis very great delight and joy. 
t My boys raised practically all the 
thickens w^e needed, and at the time of 
the Colonel's visit, we probably had 600 
or more in the yards. Nearly all of these 
were hatched in incubators, and then 
given to capons because we found that 
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1440 E. 63rd St.; Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Berkshire Countr: About 1250 acres. Mountain and fora 
and farm lands. EleratloDs. 1500 to 2500 feet (runs 
tops of two mountains). Many springs, two small brod 
(stocked with trout), excellent location for trout pond 
small expense. Ruffed grouse, rabbits, deer. Two house 
one a good one with a new slate roof (would co 
$5,000 to build to>day), needs new kit(Aen addition, pai 
and paper. Old worthless barns. Extensive old forest 
Plantation 45,000 young (small) white pines. Some o 
orchards. Fifty or sixty (neglected) young fruit tree 
Numerous fine views, remantio walks and drivea, wl 
picturesque scenery. Adjoins (wi north) estate 
about 1.000 acres belonging to well known owner ai 
(on east) a 10,000 acre State Keserration. Addr( 
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