Excerpt from Birds in Their Relations to Man: A Manual of Economic Ornithology for the United States and Canada
The town of Durham, New Hampshire, in which this book has been written, may serve to illustrate in miniature the relations that exist between the world of birds and the world of man. This town abounds with homesteads distributed over its more habitable portions, with considerable areas of woodland and rocky pastures, while on the east it adjoins that arm of the sea called Great Bay. Running into this bay is the Oyster River: below the dam which holds back the fresh water this is a tide-stream, overflowing salt marshes through part of its course. As a result of this unusual situation, Durham has an extraordinarily rich fauna and flora, making the region one to delight the heart of the naturalist.
During the summer season birds are abundant in this town. In the yards about the houses the chipping-sparrows are cherished dwellers, building their horse-hair nests under the very windows, and supervising the lawns and roadways for grasshoppers, caterpillars, and many other insects found among the grasses and low herbage.
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