. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. WHERE SWALLOWS ROOST ONTRIBUTING little to the ma- terial wealth of the nation, the Hackensack marshes of north- ern New Jersey are usually re- garded as " waste ; By the farmer they are termed " salt medders," and their waving grasses are of value to him only as " bedding" for cattle. In winter the muskrat hunter reaps a har- vest of pelts there. The down of the "cat-tails" is gathered for cushion stuffing, and
. Bird studies with a camera : with introductory chapters on the outfit and methods of the bird photographer . Birds; Photography of birds. WHERE SWALLOWS ROOST ONTRIBUTING little to the ma- terial wealth of the nation, the Hackensack marshes of north- ern New Jersey are usually re- garded as " waste ; By the farmer they are termed " salt medders," and their waving grasses are of value to him only as " bedding" for cattle. In winter the muskrat hunter reaps a har- vest of pelts there. The down of the "cat-tails" is gathered for cushion stuffing, and the bladed leaves for chair bottoms. To the gunner they are the resort of Ducks, Snipe, Rail, and Reedbirds, which each year visit them in decreasing numbers; while to the thousands who daily pass them on the encir- cling railroads they are barren and uninteresting. But if beauty is a sufficient cause for being, then these marshes may claim a right to existence. In preglacial times this region was probably for- ested, but now the forest is buried beneath the drift of the glacier which deposited fragments of Palisade and Orange Mountain trap rock on Staten Island. During the depression of the land which occurred as the ice gradually receded, the waters of the sea doubtless passed up here and the meadow was a larger " Newark ; Then commenced their slow. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945. New York : D. Appleton
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