76 GOLDEN EAGLE 
In this group is shown a portion of a coral islet on which three 
thousand boobies and four hundred man-of-war birds 
aaa were nesting, the former on the ground, the latter in the sea 
Bird Group grape 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, 
boas American egrets, little blue herons, Louisiana herons, 
Group ibises, cormorants, and water turkeys. Because of the 
great inaccessibility of this island it has been one of the 
last places to escape the depredations of the plume-hunter. (Repro- 
duced 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 
Gonacn Fagle the Rockies to the Pacific Coast, although it is found as far 
east as 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 
made for them in the original plans for this gallery. The 
bile geese Swan whooping crane was exterminated so rapidly 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 astonish- 
eee sacha? ing. Here is an example of how the normal nesting habits 
of a bird may be changed by its being driven into a dif- 
ferent 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. 
a Although these mountains are in the temperate region, 
Group the altitude gives climatic conditions that would be 
found in the Far 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.) 
