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and forests where Nature still has her 

 citadel unassailed or unaffected. Such 

 were the excursions made at times by 

 President Roosevelt who used to refresh 

 himself as also to satisfy his insatiable 

 curiosity about the avine community by 

 roaming about ill the prairies and jungles 

 of the United States or in the dense forests 

 ©f far-off Africa ; it was also the prac- 

 tice of the distinguished British ex-minis- 

 ter Viscount Grey who, not content with 

 the stray song of a Robin at his window 

 or a Finch in his garden, ran away from 

 the cares of Whitehall into places where 

 birds sang in chorus or poured forth 

 floods of music in their unmolested natural 

 abodes. Many lovers of bird-music may 

 be of the habit which soothed the two 

 statesmen in their o^nawin^: cares, but 

 there are others who want to have the 

 remedy within easy reach. They will 

 have the pleasure of the distant hills and 

 dales as far as possible within the city 

 itself, in their own garden, or in the 



