. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Lesser Snow Goose Taken in Solano County man under his various disguises has a long lead over the poet in this coun- try. The color is, of course, highly protective in a region of snow and ice, such as this bird frequents in summer. Nor is it difficult to trace its pro- tective significance in the case of pelicans, which sit along the margin of some lake, like windrows of alkaline froth; nor in that of certain sea- birds, whose white is the mer
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Lesser Snow Goose Taken in Solano County man under his various disguises has a long lead over the poet in this coun- try. The color is, of course, highly protective in a region of snow and ice, such as this bird frequents in summer. Nor is it difficult to trace its pro- tective significance in the case of pelicans, which sit along the margin of some lake, like windrows of alkaline froth; nor in that of certain sea- birds, whose white is the mere embodiment of storm-tossed billows. But paint a game-bird white, and put the crazy notion into his noggin of wintering in Californiaâthe case is quite hopeless. The great interior valley of California, the Sacramento-San Joaquin- Tulare section, has been from time immemorial the winter home of America's geese, and especially of the two Snow geese, Chen hyperboreus and C. rossi. It is scarcely possible to exaggerate the number which frequented this region before the advent of the white man. It must have run into the millions, and may easily have reached the tens of mil- lions. Practically the entire population of the North, breeding and bred on the Arctic shores of British America, in Banks Land and, presumably, upon the still undiscovered Hyperborean land mass, poured across the defiles of the Sierras in late September and early October, and covered the central California landscape as with a quivering white blanket. Of their appearance in the Fifties Heermann wrote:1 "Frequents more es- pecially the salt marsh districts, though found also inland. The food which they select in these localities gives their flesh a strong sedgy flavor, which causes them to be but little esteemed. These birds often cover so densely with their masses the plains in the vicinity of the marshes as to give the ground the appearance of being clothed with snow. Easily ap- proached on horseback, th
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