. Journal of applied microscopy and laboratory methods. nithologistsare shown at work in Fig. 5. This table and roof is similar to that made use ofin all camps. The lake lies in the middle foreground, just out of sight, beinglower down. Under the table are to be seen various sizes of zincs, cylindricalin form, and almost closed. These are used for placing and holding the madeskins while they dry. It is often necessary to pack the skins before they are dry,and even afterward the jolting the mountain roads give them is something verydifficult to understand except by those who have been over the
. Journal of applied microscopy and laboratory methods. nithologistsare shown at work in Fig. 5. This table and roof is similar to that made use ofin all camps. The lake lies in the middle foreground, just out of sight, beinglower down. Under the table are to be seen various sizes of zincs, cylindricalin form, and almost closed. These are used for placing and holding the madeskins while they dry. It is often necessary to pack the skins before they are dry,and even afterward the jolting the mountain roads give them is something verydifficult to understand except by those who have been over the ground. Byplacing each skin in a zinc cylinder, the cylinders being of different sizes andlengths to accommodate different sized birds, it is then an easy matter to packthe skins, and at any time get them out to dry without danger of injuring thefeathers and spoiling the shape. It is true the zincs are heavy, but they seem tobe a necessity in this kind of work. They work as well with mammal skins, andare also employed in preserving small mimmal FIG 6. VIEW OF UPPER END OF FLATHEAD LAKE, SWAN RIVER OUTLET. For the ornithologists long excursions were unnecessary, as the region allabout is dense woods up to the mountain sides, and it was necessar) but to takea handful of shells and go a few steps from camp in order to secure enough spec-imens for a half days work. The picture was taken on a Seed orthochromaticplate with ray filter. It is needless to relate instances of camp life, or to describe further methodsof work. It is in order to say, however, that to change camp and get to the sta-tion, a distance of only about fifty miles, one must descend a thousand feet overbad road with all the paraphernalia of camp, and, with all material, cross the res-ervation, a distance to the lake of twenty or twenty-five miles, taking a day. dumpthe material off at the lake shore and again pile it on the small launch or the largesteamer, whichever is taken, cross the lake, a distance of a
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