Identifier: scienceguide1630amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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er with ducks, geese and grouse. Occasionally it takes a youngdeer or antelope. On the whole, however, under natural condition-.the Golden Eagle is a beneficial bird because of the large number ofrodents it destroys. But where sheep have been introduced, the (roldenEagle may become more or less injurious through its acquired habit ofpreying on lambs. Four species of Eagles have been recorded from America north ofMexico. Of these the Gray Sea Eagle, an Old World species, is foundin this hemisphere only in Alaska; and the Harpy Eagle, a tropicalspecies, has bem recorded but once, from Texas. This leaves virtuallyonly two North American species, the Golden and the Bald Eagle,When the Bald Eagle is mature, with a white head and tail, the two ties are very unlike in color, but before the Bald Eagle acquires its distinctive marks, it bears a general resemblance to the Golden Eagle.The latter, however, has the legg feathered to the toes, while in theformer the lower part of the . is bare. 49
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-2 pq id* - H Hi el o 23. KLAMATH LAKE BIRD-LIFE KLAMATH LAKE i> situated in northeastern California on the( Oregon boundary line. Its shallow water permits a great growthof tules, or rushes, which almost completely fringe the shore, in places expanding to a width of several miles. They also form islandsvarying in size from a few square yards to many acres in extent. It ison these islands that the bird colonies are established. There is nosoil or beach, and all the birds nest on the beds of matted Miles, usuallyat the border of the island. The White Pelicans, therefore, find here n<pebbles with which to construct their usual mound-like nests; the ( Cas-pian Terns do without sand, and the Cormorants without rocks. Farmore important than these is the protection which ground-nesting com-munal birds require, and this the islands supply. Fifteen colonies of White Pelicans were counted in this localitybetween June 30 and July 7, 1906, and doubtless there were others,since only a part

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