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during the Cretaceous period, some four millions of years ago." 

 (Legend under colored frontispiece.) 



Life Histories of North American Diving Birds (Bent), pages 

 47-60. 



Bird Book (Eckstorm), pages 9-13. 



Bij-Ways and Bird-Notes (Thompson), pages 170-71. ''The 

 cretaceous birds of America all appear to be aquatic, and comprise 

 some eight or a dozen genera, and many species. Professor Marsh 

 and others have found in Kansas a large number of most interest- 

 ing fossil birds, one of them, a gigantic loon-hke creature, six feet 

 in length from beak to toe, taken from the yellow chalk of the 

 Smoky Hill River region and from calcareous shale near Fort 

 Wallace, is na-med Hesperornis regalis." 



Educational Leaflet No. 78. (National Association of Audubon 

 Societies.) 



If twenty years of undisputed possession seems long enough to 

 give a man a legal title to ''his" land, surely birds have a claim 

 too ancient to be ignored by modern beings. Are we not in honor 

 bound to share what we have so recently considered "ours," with 

 the creatures that inherited the earth before the coming of their 

 worst enemy. Civilization? And in so far as lies within our power, 

 shall we not protect the free, wild feathered folk from ourselves? 



EVE AND PETRO 



Petrochelidon lunifrons, Cliff-Swallow, Eave-Swallow. 



Bird Studies Avith a Camera (Chapman), pages 89-105; ""Where 

 Swallows Roost." 



Handbook of Nature-Study (Comstock), pages 112-113. 



Bird Migration (Cooke), pages 5, 9, 19-20, 26, 27; Fig. 6. 



Our Greatest Travelers (Cooke), page 349; "Migration Route of 

 the Cliff Swallows." 



Bird Book (Eckstorm), pages 201-12. 



Bird-Lore, vol. 21, page 175; "Helping Barn and Cliff Swallows 

 to Nest." 



UNCLE SAM 



Haliccetus leucocephcdus, the Bald Eagle. 



Stories of Bird Life (Pearson), pages 71-80; "A Pair of Eagles." 

 The Fall of the Year (Sharp), chapter v. 



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