Chapman's 'camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist'

Chapman's ' Camps and Cruises of an Ornithologist.' i__ Says the author: "During the past seven years, 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 American birds for the American Museum of Natural History.These groups," it is further stated, "are designed to illustrate not only the habits and haunts of the birds shown, but also the country in which they live."The groups, therefore, contain not only the birds, with their nests and young, placed in a facsimile reproduction of their original surroundings, but the background forms an accurate panoramic representation of the adjoining country.Thus is shown not only the character of the immediate location of the nest, but a considerable area characteristic of the haunts of the species, reproduced from studies by the artist on the spot, aided by photographs.Thus are introduced various types of physiographic conditions, which render the groups geographically as well as ornithologically instructive.They are unriva]]ed by any silni]ar reproductions elsewh.ere, no expense having been spared to secure accuracy of detail, while the panoramic backgrounds, some of them nearly thirty feet in length, give ample space for comprehensive scenic effects.The assembling of all this material entailed extensive journeys, and the results accurately portray strikingly diverse types of country, ranging from subtropical scenes in the Bahamas and the Everglades of Florida to the deserts of Arizona, the prairies and badlands of Nebraska and Wyoming, the irrigated lands of interior California, the marshy lakes of Oregon, and the alpine summits of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, as we]] as marshes and chffs nearer home.To quote again from the authoFs preface: "No ornithologist, I imagine, has ever pursued his calling with greater pleasure and satisfaction than I have experienced in gathering the material and data for these groups of birds.Not o•fiy has it been my fortune to behold some of the most interesting and remarkable sights in the world of birds, but it has been my privilege to have them reproduced in so admirable a manner that they convey to others a wholly adequate conception of the scene itself."The pu•oose of the present book is "now further to perpetuate these experiences and studies by telling the story of the various expeditions of which the groups were the objects, adding such information concerning the birds observed as seems worthy of record, and illustrating • Camps and Cruises ] of an ] Ornithologist ] By ] Frank M. Chapman [ Curator of Ornithology, American l•Iuseum of Natural History I Fellow of the American OrnithoIogists' Union; Artthor of I "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America" I "Bird-Life"; "Bird Studies with l a Camera," etc.I With 250 photographs from Nature ] by the Author I Next; York I D. Appletou and Cmnpany I 1905 --$vo, pp.xvi+432, with 250 half-tone illustrations.

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