. Bird lore . Walking slowly up, I seated myselfabout thirty yards away and awaited developments. For about five minutes hehardly moved, then suddenly sat down on the log, and, with tail expanded andhead thrust forward, began to flap his wings, slowly at first, but after three orfour strokes moving them so rapidly as to make them almost invisible. Thewings were held so as to beat forward and not down toward the log. As a bank of dark clouds was coming up from the west, I had no time to loseso fastened the camera, with ball-and-socket clamp, to a tree about nine feet fromthe log, and attaching
. Bird lore . Walking slowly up, I seated myselfabout thirty yards away and awaited developments. For about five minutes hehardly moved, then suddenly sat down on the log, and, with tail expanded andhead thrust forward, began to flap his wings, slowly at first, but after three orfour strokes moving them so rapidly as to make them almost invisible. Thewings were held so as to beat forward and not down toward the log. As a bank of dark clouds was coming up from the west, I had no time to loseso fastened the camera, with ball-and-socket clamp, to a tree about nine feet fromthe log, and attaching twenty-five feet of tubing with a bicycle pump on one end,and setting the shutter at one-half a second, with diaphragm at U. S. 8, I wentaway for a time to give the bird a chance to return. In about half an hour I returned, to find the Grouse again drumming. Imanaged to creep up to the tubing, and just as he was preparing to drum againI worked the pump, but the click of the shutter did not disturb him at Photographed by Mr GULLS AND CORMORANTS Gardner F. G. Wells, at Avalon Island, Cal,, May, 1907 (11) The Migration of North American Sparrows SECOND PAPER Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey With Drawings by Loois Agassiz Fhertes(See frontispiece) BAIRDS SPARROW SPRING MIGRATION PLACE Numberof yearsrecord Average date ofspring arrival Earliest date ofspring arrival March 21May 12 February 17, 1903March 17, 1895March 24, 1886May 5, 1885May 5, 1904May 6, 1873May 2, 1894May 11, 1909 Aweme, Manitoba The last in the spring were seen at Gainesville, Tex., April 24, 1884; , Mo., May 25, 1896; Grinnell, la., April 25, 1885; near the HuachucaMountains, Ariz., May 3, 1903. FALL MIGRATION The first in the fall have been noted in San Luis Valley, Colo., August 22,1874;Upper Pecos, N. M., August 11, 1903; eastern Arizona, August 16, 1874; south-ern Arizona, August 29, 1884; Las Vegas, N. M., September 2, 1903; San JuanMountains, N. M.,
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