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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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now using, and which I consider best adapted for the purpose, isrectangular, and about sLx inches in length by five inches in breadth. It is setin a light metal (tin) frame, connected by a hinged joint with a hollov brassferule that slips on and off the end of the pole. The hinge enables one to set theglass at any required angle by pressing it against twigs or branches after it is A Device for Looking into Bird Nests 75 over the nest. Its proper adjustmentis not difficult, provided the hinge isneither too tight nor too loose. Whenthe glass has been placed as it shouldbe, it shows he eggs or young in thenest with surprising distinctness, evenin poor lights. If it be desirable toexamine them closely, an opera glassmay be used in one hand while theother guides and supports the pole.Whenever I take the looking-glasswith me on distant excursions, Icarry it detached, in a leather case,improvising a pole, when needed, bycutting a straight young pine orspruce; but for regular, daily use about
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REFLLLilu.N Uh A -\LM AND EGGSIN THE MIRROR THE MIRROR SHOWIXG MANNEROF ATTACHMENT TO THE POLE home grounds, a bamboo fish-ing-rod fifteen or sixteen feet inlength, with a wooden plug thatexactly tits the ferule inserted inthe terminal joint, is by far thebest thing I have thus far tried.The simple little arrange-ment above described (and illus-trated by the accompanyingphotograph) has excited so muchinterest among those to whomit has been shown that I havethought it worth calling to theattention of the readers of Bird-Lore. Perhaps it could be im-proved upon, but at least it hasserved my purpose well. An April Snowstorm (The following observations, made in April, iqio, were received too late forinsertion in the succeeding issue of Bird-Lore, and were therefore held until theycould be published at a seasonable date.—Ed.) My Dear Mr. Chapman: Here, in Waukesha county, Wisconsin, on April23, 1910, we are experiencing a snow of many inches depth, which is alreadyproving a terrible cata

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