8 BIRDS IN THEIR RELATIONS TO MAN. 



tain amount of excellent food. This game might also easily 

 become a source of revenue to many other people in the 

 town by attracting city visitors for the shooting season. 



In the following pages we have attempted to discuss in a 

 broad yet specific Avay the relations of birds to .man as illus- 

 trated in temperate North America. The book has been 

 made possible only through the labors of such investigators 

 as Forbes, . Merriam, Beal, Barrows, Fisher, Palmer, Judd, 

 Warren, Herrick, Montgomery, and many others, upon whose 

 published results we have freely drawn. The need of I lie 

 book was first shown when the senior author undertook to 

 teach a college class the subject of economic ornithology, and 

 its first draft consisted of the lectures prepared for that class. 

 When later the junior author a life-long student of birds 

 became associated with him, a joint study of the whole sub- 

 ject was undertaken, the results of which are here presented. 



A considerable proportion of the illustrations in this book 

 are from original photographs chiefly of mounted specimens 

 by the authors. The others have been gleaned from vari- 

 ous sources, which are credited beneath the pictures. 



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