9o Boy Scouts blind, or/whe ?e this is not-poss?q?le, by means o.f a long'threa/[? Idter' carefully hiding the camera with boughs, leave?' s0ds,'ete. How to Know An.idea o! the details' of a bird?s life wbich'a scout may come to know, may be had from 'the following table: L Description. (Size, form, ,,color, and markings.) ?. Haunts. (Upland, lowland, lakes, fivers, woods, fields, etc.)
3. 'Movements. (Slow or active, hops, walks, creeps, swims, tail
. wagged, etc.) . 4. Appearance. (Alert, listless, crest erect, tail drooped, etC.) $. Disposition. (Solitary, flocki?, wary, unsuspicious, etc.) 6. Flight. (Slow, rapid, direct, undulating, soaring, sailing, flapping, etc.) ?. SOnic (Pleasing, unattractive, long, short, loud, faint, sung trom ?round, h-ore ?, perch, in the air, etc. Season of song.) 8. Call notes. (0/ surprise, alarm, protest, wamln?;.signa/ing, etc;) 9. 'Season. (Spring, fall, summer, winter, with times of arrival and departure and variations in numbers.) xo. Food. (Ben/es, insects, seeds, etc.; how secured.) XL Mating. (Habits during courtship.) x2. Nesting. (Choice o site, mater/al, construction, eg?s, incubation, etc.) x$. The young. (Food and care of, time in the nest, notes, actions, fi/?ht, etc.) So varied is a bird's life that there is still plenty to be learned about even our common birds. It is quite possible for a scout to discover some facts that have never yet been publ/shed in What One Boy Did A boy once originated the idea of varying the usual "bird's nesting" craze into a systematic study of the breed- ing of our common birds. In one spring he found within the limits of a single 'village one hundred and seventy robins' nests. "One hundred were in suitable situations on private places, forty-one were in woods, swamps and orchards, eight were p!aced un?der bridges (two being underd tl?lrders of Red-b?easted nuthatch the. railroad bridg,e)?'four were
