. Bird-lore . s him conspicuous as a foreigner in his civilized environment,and induces the immediate appellation of Wild Duck from every one whosees him. The elevating influence that unspoiled Nature exerts over our livesis manifest in the charm that attracts hundreds of park visitors toward the littlewild Merganser, and causes them to stop and gaze with admiration upon hisbeauty. He so far overshadows his humble domestic relatives in character thatthey are entirely igiiored while in his presence. Such is the charm of the wilder-ness which envelopes every wild being, radiating its message wit
. Bird-lore . s him conspicuous as a foreigner in his civilized environment,and induces the immediate appellation of Wild Duck from every one whosees him. The elevating influence that unspoiled Nature exerts over our livesis manifest in the charm that attracts hundreds of park visitors toward the littlewild Merganser, and causes them to stop and gaze with admiration upon hisbeauty. He so far overshadows his humble domestic relatives in character thatthey are entirely igiiored while in his presence. Such is the charm of the wilder-ness which envelopes every wild being, radiating its message with every pulse ofits life. The beholder is spirited back to the wild, simple days of his own heritage,when sin, sickness and suffering were the exception, and his endeavor to live apure, natural life receives a new impetus. I hope that the presence of the Hooded Merganser in this crowded city willemphasize the value of natural associations to mankind, and prove a powerfulmission to the cause of bird FLORIDA SCREECH OWL ON by P. B. Philipp The Migration of North American Sparrows THIRD PAPER Compiled by Professor W. W. Cooke, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey With Drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes(See frontispiece) SONG SPARROW This species, as a whole, ranges from ocean lo ocean, hut over much of ihiswide area it is not possihle to trace the movements of the migrating individualsbecause the observers cannot distinguish these from the resident breeding , on the Pacific slope most of the Song Sparrows perform a more or lessextended migration, but some winter north to British Columbia and others breedsouth to Lower California. It is not possible, therefore, to give any migrating datesfor the Pacific slope. In the eastern United States the birds winter north regu-larly to Nebraska and New Jersey, and breed south to southern Nebraska andsouthern Virginia. Thus there is a belt in the vicinity of the parallel of 40° N. lati-tude in whic
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