BIRD RESERVATIONS 

 prow of the Audubon patrol boat, as the watchful 

 warden extends his vigil over the feathered wards 

 of our Government. 



Federal bird reservations have been formed not 

 only of lakes with reedy margins and lonely islands 

 in the sea, they have been made to include numerous 

 Government reservoirs built in the arid regions of the 

 West. 



Distant Reservations. — Once set in motion, this 

 movement for Federal bird reservations soon swept 

 beyond the boundaries of the United States. One 

 was established in Porto Rico, and several others 

 among the islands of Alaska, on whose rocky cliffs 

 may be seen to-day clouds of Puffins, Auks, and 

 Guillemots — queer creatures that stand upright 

 like a man — crowding and shouldering each other 

 about on the ledges which overlook the dark waters 

 of Bering Sea. One reservation in Alaska covers 

 much of the lower delta of the Yukon, including the 

 great tundra country south of the river, embrac- 

 ing within its borders a territory greater than the 

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