. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . HOUGHTON MIFFLIN y COMPANY V ^ BOSTON AND NEW YORK <L THE ^^ RIVERSIDE PRESS CAMBRIDGE COPYRIGHT 19OS BY HERBERT K. JOBALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published Afay igos J RECOGNITION OF H5 FOR A ROVING NA 3(1 Dfliicatc tljis tjolumf IN LOVING RECOGNITION OF HER MANYANXIETIES FOR A ROVING NATURALIST. KITTIWAKES AND A GANNET, NOKTH BIRD ROCKSTRONG WINGS MAKE THEM MASTERS OF THE ELEMENTS PREFACE THE above picture may serve to suggest the feelingswhich have animated me in securing the contentsof thi
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . HOUGHTON MIFFLIN y COMPANY V ^ BOSTON AND NEW YORK <L THE ^^ RIVERSIDE PRESS CAMBRIDGE COPYRIGHT 19OS BY HERBERT K. JOBALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published Afay igos J RECOGNITION OF H5 FOR A ROVING NA 3(1 Dfliicatc tljis tjolumf IN LOVING RECOGNITION OF HER MANYANXIETIES FOR A ROVING NATURALIST. KITTIWAKES AND A GANNET, NOKTH BIRD ROCKSTRONG WINGS MAKE THEM MASTERS OF THE ELEMENTS PREFACE THE above picture may serve to suggest the feelingswhich have animated me in securing the contentsof this vohime, of enthusiastic love of the out-doorworld and keen delight in its free, wild life, — a spirit whichI hope may not have been too fugitive to bear the transferfrom nature to the printed page. It is a scene instinct with from the wave-lashed cliff and out over the heaving,restless deep fly the wild, hardy birds of the sea. As theylaunch into the cold breeze which sweeps over the lonelynorthern ocean and wheel off before it with careless abandon, viii PREFACE uttering their shrill cries, which are softened in the undertoneof the surf, strong wings make them masters of the I thrill as I watch them ! They and their lone surround-ings are the unsullied handiwork of God. No trace is hereof mans vandalism ; the wildness of the scene might wellhave been matched at
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