. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . - implied b_\- the near ap-proach of these trustful creatures. If the compliment were really deserved,the cunning little souls would undoubtedly respond to the most familiar ad-vances short of actual handling. Slaughter in the name of science may stillbe justitiable. tho there be those of us who have passed up the solution <ifmanv nice problems here: but slruighter of these innocents in the name of. Taken at La Push. Photo by the Author. THE 1!.\.\QUETI.\G sport i
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . - implied b_\- the near ap-proach of these trustful creatures. If the compliment were really deserved,the cunning little souls would undoubtedly respond to the most familiar ad-vances short of actual handling. Slaughter in the name of science may stillbe justitiable. tho there be those of us who have passed up the solution <ifmanv nice problems here: but slruighter of these innocents in the name of. Taken at La Push. Photo by the Author. THE 1!.\.\QUETI.\G sport is mere Philistinism. The Italian method of hunting is tf) shoot e\-ery-thing in sight. As a result sunn\- Italy is a birdless desert in summer, and anightmare during migrations. The Alaskan tundras are the summer h(ime of our little guest, and wemay perhaps be interested to follow him with Mr. Nelsons eyes: The warmdays toward the close of May cause the brown slopes and flats to assume ashade of green, and among the many prett\- bird-romances going on under oureyes none is more charming than the courtship of this delicate have forsaken the borders of icy pools, and, in twos and threes, are 664 Till-: SAXDlTPER. fmiiiil scaltiTocl (i\cr the tundra, sluiwint; a preference fur small ilr\- kinillsand the drier tussock-co\ered parts the cnuiitry in the \ieinit\- of damps])ots and small ponds. Here the gentle birds may he seen at all times tri])pingdaintily over the moss or in and r)ut am
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