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THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 



Such briefly was the history of the creation of the first national bird 

 reservation in the United States. In the ten years which have since elapsed 

 many other islands and pieces of public land have been dedicated to the 



Location of national bird reservations and administration districts. 

 Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture 



From Circular 87. 



birds until the number of reservations has increased from one to sixty -one, 

 but Pelican Island still remains the best known and one of the most 

 accessible. 



Location of the Reservations 



National bird reservations are widely scattered in nineteen states and 

 territories, from Florida and Porto Rico in the south to Michigan, Montana, 

 Washington and Alaska in the north and the Aleutian Islands and Hawaii 

 in the west. Between Chamisso Island in Alaska and Culebra Island, 

 Porto Rico, is a distance of nearly 50 degrees of latitude, and between Attu, 

 the most distant of the Aleutian Islands and Culebra is a distance of more 

 than 120 degrees of longitude. In other words, the most remote reserva- 

 tions are separated by a space equal to one-third the distance around the 

 world from north to south and from west to east, and in visiting them a 

 traveler must journey farther than in going from New York to Mombasa, 

 British East Africa, or from London eastward to Manila. 



In the following lists the reservations are arranged both chronologically 

 and alphabetically to facilitate reference: 



