230 BEACH GRASS 



White and Hudson are conspicuous examples. 

 I am sure, although it is heresy to say so, Thoreau 

 would have had more pleasure from his studies 

 of out-of-doors and would have given the world 

 more pleasure, if he had been willing to study 

 more closely and identify more carefully birds 

 and flowers. 



We are fortunate in having in this part of 

 the world a number of different hawks that one 

 may see from time to time — a good baker's 

 dozen of them — and several are fairly common. 

 In England hawks of all kinds, good and bad — 

 and most of them are in reality good as they prey 

 on mice and insects — are all looked upon as "ver- 

 min" and shot at sight. The noble sport of 

 pheasant raising and pheasant slaughter must not 

 be interfered with, or even its nerves offended. 

 There is great danger that this dreadful contagion 

 will spread to our shores by the introduction of 

 the pheasant and the English game-keeper. It is 

 impossible to change the fixed ideas on vermin of 

 the latter species. 



Hudson beautifully expressed the joy to be 

 found in the contemplation of the soaring hawk 



