NATURE STUDY 
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE 
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
You. II. September, 1901. No. 4. 
Birds at Close Range. 
BY RAEPH HOFFMANN. 
Many readers of Nature Study have probably enjoyed 
Professor Herrick’s book, “The Home kife of Wild 
Birds,” in which he describes his new method of the study 
and photography of birds. It is of particular interest to 
residents of Manchester to know that Professor Herrick’s 
work has been carried on in the hill country of New Hamp¬ 
shire. It may interest them, also, to read some rough 
notes of similar work carried on this summer in another 
part of the State, in connection with the School of Natural 
History at Alstead. 
The first experiment, like Professor Herrick’s, was con¬ 
ducted with Cedar birds and proved of even greater inter¬ 
est than I had expected. On July 12 th, a nest which was 
fixed to a maple twig a few yards from the laboratory was 
lowered to the ground—the twig having been cut off and 
nailed to some upright posts. At first the old birds were 
unable to find the nest in its new position. They seemed 
very much bewildered, and flew again and again from the 
neighboring twigs to the now empty site. When, how- 
