THE COMING OF MAN 



F we betake ourselves to the heart of the 

 deepest forests which are still left upon 

 our northern hills, and compare the bird life 

 which we find there with that in the woods 

 and fields near our homes, we shall at once 

 notice a great difference. Although the com- 

 ing of mankind with his axe and plough has driven many 

 birds and animals far away or actually exterminated 

 them, there are many others which have so thrived under 

 the new conditions that they are far more numerous than 

 when the tepees of the red men alone broke the monotony 

 of the forest. 



We might walk all day in the primitive woods and 

 never see or hear a robin, while in an hour's stroll about a 

 village we can count scores. Let us observe how some 

 of these quick-witted feathered beings have taken advan- 

 tage of the way in which man is altering the whole face of 

 the land. 



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