. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. I*hoto by fieorge Shiras, 3rd A I,ARGU BAND OF SHEEP, NjvKK TUIC ilOUNTAIN TOP, CROSSING A SNOW FIELD FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLIMKING THE ADJOINING CLIFFS FOR THE NIGHT preached the principal object of interest was the lunch-box. Finally, four sheep were seen on the sk3'line two miles away, and down they started on one of the big" runways leading to the valley. They came rapidly anfl were soon standing on a bare plateau a quarter of a mile above the meadow. Here they stopped and looked below, hut in a few minutes be- g^an graz


. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. I*hoto by fieorge Shiras, 3rd A I,ARGU BAND OF SHEEP, NjvKK TUIC ilOUNTAIN TOP, CROSSING A SNOW FIELD FOR THE PURPOSE OF CLIMKING THE ADJOINING CLIFFS FOR THE NIGHT preached the principal object of interest was the lunch-box. Finally, four sheep were seen on the sk3'line two miles away, and down they started on one of the big" runways leading to the valley. They came rapidly anfl were soon standing on a bare plateau a quarter of a mile above the meadow. Here they stopped and looked below, hut in a few minutes be- g^an grazing on the sparse grass. After remaining half an hour they took a trail toward the head of the valley, where there were doubtless a good many other sheep. "It was then that the idea suggested itself of a light and portable set of life- sized profile decoys, made of white cloth, which could be set at any angle and where they could be seen broadside at a long distance. The day before, as al- a«i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society


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