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No. 77 BIRDS OF THE BEACH
The Flying Inhabitants of the Shore
The nesting habits, rearing of young, feeding habits, manner of flight, and special adaptations of shore birds are illustrated in a number of studies.
The birds pictured include the gull, oysterfisher, shear water, snipe, loom and other birds of the sand-beach.
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No. 79 BULGARIA
The Country and its Customs
handicraft.
After the harvest the peasants hold a festival,
I\o. 7 9.-4 Its Industries
o ne of the strangest crops in the world — rose petals — is grown in the beautiful Valley of Roses near Karlova, Bulgaria. The petals, picked from acres of bushes, are sent to distilleries. Here the costly perfume, attar of roses, is extracted by prosaic machinery.
The fields of tobacco are less picturesque. But the process of preparing the leaves for the market, carried on by hand in each home in the village, has the charm of a pre-machine
Bulgarian counterpart to a county fair.
No. 81 SONS OF THE SUN-GODS
Peru and the Incas
been — but the glory of the Incas is buried with see excavated.
^Vfter struggling up jungle trails, fording rushing streams, climbing higher and higher towards the snow-covered peaks, Cuzco, ancient capital of the Incas, is finally reached.
Here among the massive walls of their ancient palaces, among the churches built by their Spanish conquerors live the povertystricken descendents. The terrace-farms and the laden llamas are as they have always the mummies in the ancient graves which we
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