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Show Birds on Abandoned Farms. Naturalists have notk-.-d that the '-ari'lnnM farms offer irrr-at oj'jior- t tlie stu'ly of tiirl 1 i f .-. an.l ' e hir.ls se.-ra to fn-q-i.-ut the-a 1-v f'liiies for s.ime reas.,n. IMniund J. s7er of Syracuse. N. Y., who has lamented r.n tliis fsct in articles for Tariffs puhlicatl.,ns. says that while tte binls to he found at these places are mostly nf tlie oomiiioner varieties, f'T purposes of ohservation the S'an-Jorjed farms offer treat ad-"ntaL-cs hecause of the numhers to he wcoanteied. within :,' feet of one of these houses lie found nests with ;?s and yomiK of eieven species. |