Natural history . n any event the preservation of the White Egret alone is a sufficientcause for thanksgiving, and bird lovers will learn with gratification of theexistence of an asylum where this beautiful creature will long be assuredof a haven of refuge. The Egrets were nesting high in the cypress trees which grow in alake several miles in length. In order, therefore, to make the photo-graphic studies so essential to the taxidermist in securing life-like posesfor his subjects, as well as to learn something also, of the Egrets little- 12S THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL known home life, the arti
Natural history . n any event the preservation of the White Egret alone is a sufficientcause for thanksgiving, and bird lovers will learn with gratification of theexistence of an asylum where this beautiful creature will long be assuredof a haven of refuge. The Egrets were nesting high in the cypress trees which grow in alake several miles in length. In order, therefore, to make the photo-graphic studies so essential to the taxidermist in securing life-like posesfor his subjects, as well as to learn something also, of the Egrets little- 12S THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL known home life, the artificial umbrella-blind employed on many previousoccasions for similar purposes was placed fifty feet up in a cypress treeand draped with Spanish moss (Tillandsia). From it photographsof the birds nesting in neighboring trees were eventually made. Thesurroundings were of great beauty, and Mr. Horsfalls carefully madestudies will enable him to reproduce in his background the singularcharm of a flooded cypress RING-BILLED AND CALIFORNIA GULLS On June 5, accompanied by Mr. L. A. Fuertes, as artist, I left NewYork for Maple Creek. Saskatchewan, on the line of the Canadian Paci-fic railway. This is a region of rolling plains dotted with lakes and pondswhich, when the water is not too alkaline, support, in their shallowerparts, a dense growth of rushes, the home of Grebes, Coots, Bitterns,Franklins Culls and Ruddy, Red-headed and Canvasback the grassy borders of the lakes and sloughs, Mallards, Gadwalls,Pintails, Widgeon, Blue-winged Teal and other ducks nest. These t
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