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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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e South, whereit may be seen gravely stalking about in search of food or gracefullysoaring in wide circles overhead. As Bendire has written: They look their best aloft as their flight isexceedingly easy and graceful, while the apparent absence of all effort asthey sail in stately manner overhead, in ever changing circles, and with-out any apparent movement of their well shaped wings, makes themreally attractive objects to watch; but let them once descend to theground or alight in a tree, and attractiveness ceases ; now they are any-thing but prepossessing, and it requires no effort to place them wherethey properly belong—among the scavengers of the soil. The locality shown is Plummers Island, in the Potomac, just aboveWashington, looking up the river toward a stretch of rapids known asStubblefield Falls. This island is the headquarters of the Washing-ton Field Naturalists Club, an organization that includes many of ourbest known naturalists, and is their favorite week-end resort. 27
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o w 03 u. J 1Q O £ a 5 !>» co 02 H T? ** .ts 0 PQ 2 j U A < -a s < 2 bfi -* o 03 PQ 12. A CACTUS DESERT AND ITS BIRD-LIFE THE great cactus-covered deserts, bo characteristic of the morearid portions of Mexico, push a well developed arm northwardinto Arizona, forming too marked a feature of North Americanscenery to be omitted from any scries of representations designed toinclude at least the more pronounced types of our landscape. Since this region has no colonies of birds, and no one bird of sufficientEMe to be treated alone, it was decided to prepare a group which shouldshow its common birds as well as its commoner forms of vegetation. Tucson, in southern Arizona, was selected as a suitable locality forour studies, throughout which we had the invaluable advice of Dr.D. T. MacDougal, Director of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of theCarnegie Institution, which is situated at this point. At the time of our visit (May 9-20, 1906),

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