. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . t to his place, andkept it confined. Each night or early in the morning thedevoted mother brought food to her fledgling. One morning,shortly after dawn, she alighted on the ridge-pole of the barnwith a rabbit. The farmer had just arisen, and, seeing her,seized his gun, and brought her tumbling to the ground. Thesavage little orphan he kept in captivity, and finally exchangedit with some one else for a boat. How strange it is, this blood-thirsty instinct in so many men, that makes them eag
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . t to his place, andkept it confined. Each night or early in the morning thedevoted mother brought food to her fledgling. One morning,shortly after dawn, she alighted on the ridge-pole of the barnwith a rabbit. The farmer had just arisen, and, seeing her,seized his gun, and brought her tumbling to the ground. Thesavage little orphan he kept in captivity, and finally exchangedit with some one else for a boat. How strange it is, this blood-thirsty instinct in so many men, that makes them eager tokill every wild thing of size, whether of any use to themor not! Sympathetic observation of nature, allied with thefine new sport of camera-hunting, will enforce the appeals of 336 WILD WINGS culture and religion, and help to drive out of man the linger-ing remnants of savagery. As for myself, I look with intensedelight to many owl-haunts in wild forests in all seasons,but particularly to finding the nests of, and above all to theachieving my ideal of photographing from life, the GreatHorned Owl,. there sat the brooding owl, her head showing above the nest INDEX INDEX Alligator, 43, 137. Anhinga, 44, 6S, 69, 78, 79, 100. Auk, Great, 82. Razor-billed, , 214. Beetle-head. See Plover, Black-bellied. Bittern, American, 230. Blue-bill, 230. Bluebird, 262. Bobolink, 23. Buzzard, 44, 75, 136, 240. Black, 103, 110-115. Turkey, 32,65,75, 103-110, 112. Chuck-Wills-Widow, , American, , no. Florida, 24, 25, y^, 37, 49, 68,72-74, , , 172. American, 07- Common, , American, no, 315, 324-326, 329, l>Z?)i 334-Fish, 32, 65, 75, 76, , Eskimo, 207, 208, 210. Hudsonian, or Jack, 205, 209, 210, 217, , See Spoonbill, See Ibis, White. Dog-fish, 189, I go. Dove, Ground, 23. Dowitcher, 49,205, 210, 213, 214, 219. Duck, 235. Black, 230, 23S, 329. Eider, 1S2. Florida, 106, loS. Sca
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