CAMPS AND CRUISES OF AN ORNITHOLOGIST BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN CURATOR
OF ORNITHOLOGY, AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FELLOW OF THE
AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS UNION AUTHOR OF HANDBOOK OF BIRDS OF
EASTERN NORTH AMERICA BIRD-LIFE BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA, ETC.
WITH 250 PHOTOGRAPHS FROM NATURE BY THE AUTHOR, 1908, - PREFACE
with the assistance of artist and preparateur, I have devoted the
nesting season of birds to collecting specimens and making field
studies and photographs on which to base a series of what have been
termed Habitat Groups of North Ameri- can birds for the American
Museum of Natural History. These groups are designed to illustrate
not only the habits and haunts of the birds shown, but also the
country in which they live. The birds and, in most instances, their
nests and young, are therefore placed in a facsimile reproduction,
containing from sixty to one hun- dred and sixty square feet of the
locality in which they are found, and to this realistic
representation of their habitat is added a background, painted from
nature, and so deftly joined to the foreground, that it is
difficult to distinguish where one ends and the other begins. See
the photographs of groups on pages, 62, 111, 233, 243, 291. In
selecting the subjects for these groups, not alone birds, but the
country they inhabit has been taken into consideration it being
desired to have the series of great panoramic backgrounds, some of
which are twenty-eight feet in length, portray not only the haunts
of certain American birds, but America as well. Characteristic
shore, marsh, prairie, plain, desert, forest, and mountain scenes
present the major features of American physiography, and each is
executed with an ac-curacy which gives to the groups a geographical
as well as an ornitho- logical value. Some subjects were in nearby
localities, which were easily visited others were in remote places
which were reached with more or less diffi- culty. In some cases an
entire season was given to gathering the mater- ial for a single
group that of the Flamingos, for example in others, several groups
were secured in a single season, the Bahaman Man-o-War Birds, for
instance, being obtained in April, the Carolina Egrets in May, the
Saskatchewan Geese in June, and the Alberta Ptarmigan in July,
1907...
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