Identifier: birdsintheirrela00wee (find matches)
Title: Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947 Dearborn, Ned, 1865-
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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X.—The Warblers and the Vireos 112 XI.—The Shrikes, Waxwings, Swallows, and Tanagers . . . 122 XII.—The Finches and Sparrows 132 XIII.—The English Sparrow 144 XIV.—The Orioles, Blackbirds, Crows, and Jays 156 XV.—The Flycatchers, Humming-Birds, Swifts, and Nighthawks 174 XVI.—The Woodpeckers, Kingfishers, and Cuckoos 181 XVII.—The Owls 195 XVIII.—The Hawks, Eagles, Kites, and Vultures 205 XIX.—The Pigeons, Grouse, and Shore-Birds 219 XX.—The Water-Birds 239 vii viii CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE XXI.—The Conservation of Birds.—I. The Non-Game-Birds . 255 XXII.—The Conservation- of Birds.—II. The Game-Birds . . . 271 XXIII.—Preventing the Depredations of Birds 21)3 XXIV.—-Encouraging the Presence of Birds 304 APPENDIX I.—The Bird Law of the American Ornithologists Union 317 II.—The Lacey Bird Law 320 III.—Some Fundamental Principles of Bird Laws . . ... 323IV.—A Partial Bibliography of the Economic Belations of North American Birds .*!2l> Index 375
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^ -r-^ d S 5 ^ .5 « BIRDS IN THEIR RELATIONS TO MAN ¥¥¥ Introduction. THE RELATIONS OF BIRDS TO MAN. The town of Durham, New Hampshire, in which this bookhas been written, may serve to illustrate in miniature therelations that exist between the world of birds and the worldof man. This town abounds with homesteads distributed overits more habitable portions, with considerable areas of wood-land and rocky pastures, while on the east it adjoins thatarm of the sea called Great Bay. Running into this bay isthe Oyster River: belowT the dam which holds back the freshwater this is a tide-stream, overflowing salt marshes throughpart of its course. As a result of this unusual situation,Durham has an extraordinarily rich fauna and flora, makingthe region one to delight the heart of the naturalist. During the summer season birds are abundant in this town.In the yards about the houses the chipping-sparrows arecherished dwellers, building their horse-hair nests under thevery windows, and superv

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