. Bird-lore . oevidence remaining to show a bird existed. Many eggs and nestlings fallto the reptiles, as well as to Crows, Jays and their near of kin, whosefledgling proclivities are well known. The deadly lighthouse claims itsthousands of sacrifices, and the small boy and the hunter add their quotato the death roll. To these, what we may call, external death factors, I am inclined tobelieve we may add flood and hail, and I believe this applies with especialforce and fitness to our prairie avifauna, so varied and so numerous in thegreat northwest country — the Dakotas, northern Minnesota and
. Bird-lore . oevidence remaining to show a bird existed. Many eggs and nestlings fallto the reptiles, as well as to Crows, Jays and their near of kin, whosefledgling proclivities are well known. The deadly lighthouse claims itsthousands of sacrifices, and the small boy and the hunter add their quotato the death roll. To these, what we may call, external death factors, I am inclined tobelieve we may add flood and hail, and I believe this applies with especialforce and fitness to our prairie avifauna, so varied and so numerous in thegreat northwest country — the Dakotas, northern Minnesota and theCanadian plains still to the north. Here countless hosts of birds spendtheir summers and rear their broods. Over these districts hail-storms areof such frequency and intensity as to justify the belief that, compared tothese causes, the work of the lighthouse and the hunter must beinsignificant. T^ -s DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTSPhotocraphcd from nature, by Frank M. Chapman, Shoal Lake, .Manitoba. Jul), i(;oi. WHAT THE EGGS WERE IN
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