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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club, Vol. 1: January, 1897 The deforesting of the state has made remarkable changes in its avi-fauna, and some of these changes are still in progress; while the rapid increase in cultivated areas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club, 1903, Vol. 4: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Ornithology of the Great Lake Regio On July 2d, at 6 A. M., I started out and crossing the river bottom I caine to a steep terrace which' forms the edge of the Norway plains. This slope is very wet, and in places fine springs seep out. Here also is a dense growth of cedar with tamarack near'the foot of the terrace. Fir, balm of Gilead and birch make up the timber. Climbing this slope I found a rather level plain with scattering Norway and jack pines. In places these have been cut off, and in their stead there has sprung up a more or less thick growth of small jack pines, yellow oak and poplar (populus grandidentata Michx) The ground is covered with a mat of Wintergreen (gaulthem'a [iromunbmzs L), sweetfern and trailing arbutus (epigaea repens I was walking slowly through this, watching the junco (funco hyemalz's song sparrow (melospiza fasciata chipping sparrow (spizella so aiolis Wils) and the vesper sparrow (poocaetes gmmz'neus Gmel.) - the most common bird of these plains - when suddenly I heard a new song, loud. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.