. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . YOUNG ROSEATE SPOONHILLS IN NEST. ADULT LITTLE BLUE HERON, FROM THE BOAT CHAPTER IV THE GREAT CUTHBERT ROOKERY For this outrage I heard the poor bird Say a thousand mournful thingsTo the wind, which, on its wings, To the guardian of the skyBore her melancholy cry. De Villegas, translated. ABOUT fifteen years ago it was known to the plume-hunters that somewhere in the great mangrove swamp^ near the southern extremity of Florida was a verylarge rookery, or breeding colony, of herons, egrets
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . YOUNG ROSEATE SPOONHILLS IN NEST. ADULT LITTLE BLUE HERON, FROM THE BOAT CHAPTER IV THE GREAT CUTHBERT ROOKERY For this outrage I heard the poor bird Say a thousand mournful thingsTo the wind, which, on its wings, To the guardian of the skyBore her melancholy cry. De Villegas, translated. ABOUT fifteen years ago it was known to the plume-hunters that somewhere in the great mangrove swamp^ near the southern extremity of Florida was a verylarge rookery, or breeding colony, of herons, egrets, andother water-birds. Hitherto all efforts to locate it had provedunavailing — a fact which will surprise no one who has beeneven to the portals of that terrible wilderness. At length,an individual named Cuthbert, with a hardihood worthy ofa better cause, made a business of tracing out this mysterious 62 WILD WINGS rookery. Starting from the southern end of the west coast,probably somewhere on Whitewater Bay, he watched theflight of the birds, formed a conclusion as to the exactdirection of their course, and plunged into the bewil
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