. Ornitologia americana, per esercizi a casa e a scuola. Location.The Camp è splendidamente situato sulla riva occidentale del lago Quinsi-gamond, circa un miglio a nord della strada rialzata, sul vecchio campeggio e zone di pesca degli indiani Nipmuck. Occupa i quaranta parchi di proprietà della Worcester Natural History Society. Il tratto in-cludes colline, foresta e terra aperta. La posizione è tutto ciò che si può desiderare da un punto di vista sanitario. Il campo è ben ombreggiato da grandi alberi forestali di vario genere; le tende sono piantate su terreno asciutto e ghiaioso ai piedi della collina di Wigwam. Il hil boscoso

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. American ornithology, for home and school . onal exercises. Location.The Camp is beautifully situated on the west shore of Lake Quinsi-gamond, about one mile north of the causeway, on the old camping andfishing grounds of the Nipmuck Indians. It occupies the forty acrepark owned by the Worcester Natural History Society. The tract in-cludes hills, forest and open land. The location is all that could bedesired from a sanitary point of view. The Camp ground is well shadedby large forest trees of various kinds; the tents are pitched on dry, gravelly soil at the foot of Wigwam Hill. The wooded hill side shadesthe Camp from the afternoon sun. The whole region is a haunt andnesting place for birds, a tract of wooded hills and upland pastures, clear streams and lakes, which offers every variety of occupation tothose who love out-door life. In strong contrast to the spot usuallychosen for the Summer School, is the Camp at the Lake, where, in ex-change for the hotel, the hot lecture room, the noise, dust and crowd AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 259. >T5«« BIRD FOUNTAIN AT NATURAL HISTORY CAMP. 260 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. of a city street, you are offered the ideal summer life of the country;where the pleasures though varied, are the simple, natural interests ofthe fields and woods, and the occupations those which lead to a know-ledge of the outdoor world. The Camp season extends from July 5thto August 9th. Arabella H. Tucker.Teacher of Botany, Normal School, Worcester, Mass. To spend a month at Natural History Camp is to have an outing ina quiet spot of great natural beauty, where the complex harness of civili-zation may be loosened or cast aside and where life may return for alittle, to simpler, freer conditions. To sleep in a tent, to bathe in thelake, to eat under the trees, —these experiences bring us nearer to thelife of primitive man from which the city dweller is too widely separated.And in this favored spot, land and water combine to furnish opportunityfor a great variety

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