THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



tation one finds at the upper border of the tropical zone. 

 Perched in this growth are parrots, toucans, trogons, mot- 

 mots and other tropical birds. The studies for this view 

 were made at Cordova, Vera Cruz. In the central back- 

 ground is snow-capped Orizaba, on the left a view of the 

 Rio Blanca. 



Summer Bird Life of Cobb's Island. Common terns, 

 skimmers, gull-billed terns, oyster-catchers, Wilson's plov- 

 ers and other birds are shown on a portion of a shell- 

 strewn sand-bar, Cobb's Island, off the coast of eastern 

 Virginia. This locality forms an ideal resort for sea-birds, 

 beyond the reach of their most common enemies, and the 

 surrounding waters furnish an abundant and unfailing food 

 supply. 



Duck Hawk. Fearless in pursuit of its prey. An adult 

 bird is bringing a pigeon to its young. The nest is shown 

 against a background representing the Palisades of the 

 Hudson northward from "The Gorge" at Englewood, New 

 Jersey. Across the river on the right is Yonkers. 



August Bird Life of the Hackensack Meadows. Trav- 

 elers to and from New York are familiar with the marshy 

 land about the Hackensack River and Newark Bay, but few 

 realize the abundant bird life found in the rushes at this 

 season of the year. Specimens of bobolink, sora, red- 

 winged blackbirds, swallows, rails and the rare wood duck 

 may be seen in the group among the rose mallows, cardinal 

 flowers, sagittaria and pickerel weed. 



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