. Les oiseaux de Californie : un tableau complet, scientifiques et populaires de l'compte 580 espèces et sous-espèces d'oiseaux trouvés dans l'état. Les oiseaux ; les oiseaux. La Buse à queue rouge de l'Ouest et ont brûlé son gopher-champs avec le feu. Pire encore, ces envahisseurs impitoyables, n'ayant pas d'utiliser eux-mêmes pour sage-rat, mais leur refuser à leur propriétaire légitime, le Redtail ; et ils lui poursuivre féroce à la destruction des moteurs quand il ventures à l'échantillon l'importation d'oiseaux danois. En vérité, ces temps troublés pour l'aristocratie. Alackaday ! À vrai dire, il n'y a pas plus stupide obsession qui afflige agriculteur f

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. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Western Red-tailed Hawk and have burnt his gopher-fields with fire. Worst of all, these ruthless invaders, having no use them- selves for sage-rats, yet deny them to their rightful owner, the Redtail; and they pursue him fiercely with engines of destruction when he ventures to sample an imported Danish fowl. Verily, these be troublous times for the aristocracy. Alackaday! Truth to tell, there is no more foolish obsession which afflicts farmer folk than this, —that all Hawks should be killed at sight; unless it be this other, — that all birds caught eating cherries are worthy of death. Penny wise, pound foolish, both of them! The man who is worst injured by this folly is, of course, the farmer himself, but society also suffers through him. Why, it is as if the man should send a charge of buckshot through a boy who stooped to pluck a strawberry—the while he cared nothing that the cattle were ravaging his wheatfield for lack of that same small boy to drive them out. In all seriousness, it is no exaggeration to say that, insofar as the three most easily slaughtered species of Hawks are concerned, the Marsh Hawk, Swainson's and the Redtail, any farmer in the grain-growing sections of this State could well afford to raise a hundred chickens annually and feed them to the birds, if by so doing he could secure immunity from the ravages of rodent pests. Yes; the excess of wheat and barley which the pests destroy annually in root and in blade would feed the chicks and repay the trouble tenfold. The Western Redtail is still, after the American Kestrel (Cerchneis sparverius), the commonest hawk in California. It possesses great adaptability, so that it is able to maintain itself as well upon the Colorado and Mojave deserts as upon the middle slopes of the Sierras and the jutting cliffs of the boundless chaparral country. It r

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