. Bird-lore . A STUDY IN BIRD FLIGHTCopyright by E. Niebergall Tame Wild Turkeys By WILLIAM T. DAVIS With photographs by the author DOWN on the Florida coast, among the Ten Thousand Islands, in theGulf of Mexico, there is a small hamlet known as Everglade. Anarrow river ebbs and flows with the tide before the few houses onits banks, and the place has the appearance of being on the mainland. As amatter of fact, however, it is on an island; for the river has a back entrance,so to speak, and there is another lead out to the Gulf. Our mission to Ever-glade, in April, 1912, was the collecting of in
. Bird-lore . A STUDY IN BIRD FLIGHTCopyright by E. Niebergall Tame Wild Turkeys By WILLIAM T. DAVIS With photographs by the author DOWN on the Florida coast, among the Ten Thousand Islands, in theGulf of Mexico, there is a small hamlet known as Everglade. Anarrow river ebbs and flows with the tide before the few houses onits banks, and the place has the appearance of being on the mainland. As amatter of fact, however, it is on an island; for the river has a back entrance,so to speak, and there is another lead out to the Gulf. Our mission to Ever-glade, in April, 1912, was the collecting of insects, and so daily we rambledabout the garden or in the near-by salt meadows. Also, strolling about this open area and among the orange trees were threetame Wild Turkeys—two gobblers and a hen. They, too, were entomologists,and interested in grasshoppers. With the hen we had Httle to do, for she.
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