. Bird lore . are scarcer now, and the Ruffed Grouse, even in districts where itcould for years wage an equal battle in the fight for existence, must inevitablygo the way of the Heath Hen and the Prairie Chicken, unless, in addition tolaws adequate to protect it and an honest effort to enforce them, there is a willto abide by the closed season which shall become part of the traditions of everyman who calls himself a sportsman. As the bird disappears from the coverts that knew it of old, the salt ofshooting loses its savor, and there is little pleasure in exchanging the roar ofits wings as it b
. Bird lore . are scarcer now, and the Ruffed Grouse, even in districts where itcould for years wage an equal battle in the fight for existence, must inevitablygo the way of the Heath Hen and the Prairie Chicken, unless, in addition tolaws adequate to protect it and an honest effort to enforce them, there is a willto abide by the closed season which shall become part of the traditions of everyman who calls himself a sportsman. As the bird disappears from the coverts that knew it of old, the salt ofshooting loses its savor, and there is little pleasure in exchanging the roar ofits wings as it bursts from cover and rockets upward through the birch-tops,or bores its way, bullet-like, through a tangle of underbrush, for the fadingcolors of a reminiscence. For thie Ruffed Grouse is an inspiration; his springdrumming wakes the old desires toward a life in the open, and the roar of hiswings among the dry leaves of the November woods quickens with securedelight the hearts of wayfarers on the upland The Migration of North American Birds SECOND SERIES VI. HORNED LARKS Compiled by Harry C. Oberholser, Chiefly from Data in the Biological Survey The Horned Larks are among the most puzzHng as well as most interestingof North American birds. They are the only native Larks in North America,but have not the usual gift of song that has made famous some of the Europeanmembers of the family. All the American Horned Larks belong to a single spe-cies and exhibit geographic variation to a degree shown by few birds. No lessthan twenty-three subspecies of Otocoris alpestris inhabit America, and theyrange as far south as Bogota in Colombia, and north to the Arctic but five of these forms occur in North America proper, and there are othersto be described. The distribution of the North American races is as follows: The Homed Lark {Otocoris alpestris alpestris) breeds in northeasternNorth America, north at least to Hudson Bay; west to Hudson Bay; south tothe southern end of J
Size: 2822px × 886px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectbirds, booksubjectorn
