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Show Birds on Abandoned Farms. Naturalists have noticed that the abandoned farms offer great opportunity oppor-tunity for the study of bird life, and the birds seem to frequent these localities lo-calities for some reason. Edmund 3. Sawyer of Syracuse, N. Y., who has commented on this fact In articles for various publications, says that while the birds to be found at these places are mostly of the commoner varieties, but for purposes of observation the abandoned farms offer great advantages ad-vantages because of the numbers to be encountered. AVIthin 300 feet of one of these houses he found nests with eggs and young of eleven species. |