. Bird lore . information regarding lakes,islands and swampy regions unsuited foragricultural purposes, but formed, as ifnature had designed them to be the homesof innumerable water-birds. He was aDirector of the National Association ofAudubon Societies, and thus kept in closetouch with its workers throughout Amer-ican territory. Later Mr. Bond was madeChief Clerk of the Land Office by SecretaryGarfield, which placed him in even a betterposition to be of influence in the estab-lishment of bird preserves. It was he who-prepared the Executive Orders and impor-tant explanatory letters of transmit
. Bird lore . information regarding lakes,islands and swampy regions unsuited foragricultural purposes, but formed, as ifnature had designed them to be the homesof innumerable water-birds. He was aDirector of the National Association ofAudubon Societies, and thus kept in closetouch with its workers throughout Amer-ican territory. Later Mr. Bond was madeChief Clerk of the Land Office by SecretaryGarfield, which placed him in even a betterposition to be of influence in the estab-lishment of bird preserves. It was he who-prepared the Executive Orders and impor-tant explanatory letters of transmittal tcbthe President for the remaining fifty-onereservations. These refuges are distrib-uted widely: Ten are along the Florida coasts andkeys; four on Louisiana coast; two in LakeSuperior, Michigan; North Dakota, two;,Oregon, three; Washington, eight; Cali-fornia, three, and California and Oregon,,one; Wyoming, three; Montana, one;,Utah, one; Idaho, two; Arizona, one;,Alaska, six; Hawaiian Islands, one; South. FRANK BOND (176) The Audubon Societies 177 Dakota, one; Porto Rico, one; New Mexicotwo. The Louisiana and the Florida coastand keys reserves protect, chiefly, theplume birds, such as Herons, Pelicans,Gulls and Terns, Black Skimmers, etc.,during the nesting-season, while severalof them are the winter homes of myriadsof the edible waterfowl, chiefly northern inland reserves, except thosein Lake Superior, are breeding-resorts ofthe ducks and geese which winter on theGulf coast, and they serve also as resting-stations during the spring and fall migra-tions for the countless flocks of these birdswhich go further north to breed. The mid-Pacific and Pacific coast reserves, south ofAlaska, are breeding-grounds for countlessnumbers of sea-birds, the Albatrosses andPetrels in the mid-Pacific, and the AukletsPuffins, Guillemots, Gulls, Cormorants,Petrels, Murres, etc., on the coastalislands; while the Alaskan islands arebreeding-grounds not only for these andsimilar sea-bi
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