78 GOLDEN EAGLE 



In this group is shown a portion of a coral islet on which three 

 Booby and thousand boobies and four hundred man-of-war birds 

 Man- of -War we re nesting, the former on the ground, the latter in the 

 Bird Group gea g ra p e bushes. (Reproduced from studies in the 

 Bahama Islands.) 



The abundance of bird-life in one of these rookeries is quite astound- 

 ing. In this group are roseate spoonbills, snowy egrets, American 

 Florida egrets, little blue herons, Louisiana herons, ibises, cormo- 



Rookery rants and water turkeys. Because of the great inac- 



Group cessibility of this island it has been one of the last places 



to feel the depredations of the plume-hunter. (Reproduced from 

 studies in the Everglades of Florida.) 



The golden eagle is one of the most widely distributed of birds. In 

 North America it is now most common in the region from the Rockies 

 Golden Eagle to the Pacific Coast, although it is found as far east as 

 Group Maine. Stories to the contrary notwithstanding, the 



eagle never attacks man, even though the nest is approached. 



Its food consists of rabbits, squirrels, woodchucks and occasionally 

 sheep. (Reproduced from studies near Bates Hole, Wyoming.) 



These two groups have recently been added, though provision was 

 Whistling made for them in the original plans for this gallery. The 

 Swan and whooping crane is so nearly exterminated that not 

 Whooping only was it impossible to obtain a nest and young, but it 

 Crane was necessary to use old birds taken many years ago. 



The abundance of bird-life in this western lake beneath Mt. Shasta, 

 which is seen in the center of the background, is astonishing. Here is 

 Klamath an example of how the normal nesting habits of a bird 



Lake Group m ay be changed by its being driven into a different locality. 

 In the group are white pelicans which usually make a nest of pebbles, 

 Caspian terns, which commonly build their nests on sand, and cormorants 

 that nest on rocks, all nesting together here on the tule or rush islets of 

 the lake. (Reproduced from studies at Klamath Lake, Oregon.) 



The scene represented in this group is above timber-line on the crest 

 of the Canadian Rockies, 8,000 feet above the sea. Although these 

 Arctic-Alpine mountains are in the temperate region, the altitude 

 Bird-Life gives climatic conditions that would be found in the Far 

 Group North, and the bird-life is arctic in character. Here are 



nesting the white-tailed ptarmigan, rosy snow finches and pipits. 

 (Reproduced from studies in the Canadian Rockies.) 

 Sage Grouse This group shows a stretch of western plateau covered 

 Group w ith sage brush. In this brush is seen the male sage 



grouse strutting and wooing a mate. (Reproduced from studies 



