Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Utility of Birds
There is a continual demand for literature setting forth the usefulness Of our native birds. In the introductory chapter to my Useful Birds and their Protection the subject of the utility of birds in nature was treated at some length, but as that work, having passed through several editions, is now out of print, it seems necessary to treat the subject brie?y as an introduction to this bulletin, so that the reader, as a necessary preliminary before examining the evidence regarding the value of birds to man, may realize something of their function in nature.
Our globe teems with life. Uncounted myriads of plants and animals encompass the earth, dwell in the sea, or ?oat upon the invisible waves Of the atmosphere. Earth's animals and plants vary in size from that Of the infinitesimal atom, too small for the human eye to discern through the most powerful micro scope, up to that of the mighty whale, 90 feet in length, and the great sequoia of California, 325 feet high, or the giant eucalyptus Of Australia, reaching a height of 470 feet.
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