The witchery of archery : a complete manual of archery by Thompson Maurice 1844-1901

Author:Thompson, Maurice, 1844-1901
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Archery
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Published: 1878-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Gorgeous air-plants and luxuriant vines run among the branches of the forests, from tree to tree, blending their odd, gay foliage and fiery spikes with the fronds of the palm and the sprays of the cypress. In many places the scenery is fancifully picturesque, the water and aerial effects being especially fine. The air is generally fresh and cool, but quite fluctuating in strength and direction. The sunshine is sometimes almost burning hot, but, for many days together, I suffered no inconvenience from this source. A sort of fog usually hung over the lake from three o'clock to ten o'clock A.M., after which a haze, not unlike that of a Western Indian summer, took its place, clothing the distant marshes and tree clumps in a peculiarly dreamful dimness.

In the lagoons and creeks bordering the lake, alligators are large and numerous.

The principal birds of the lake are the limpkin, the snake-bird, the herons, cormorants, ibis, gal-linules, coots, spoonbills, kingfishers, fish-crow, teal, and wood-duck.

Fish-hawks and barred owls were numerous, and we found many of their nests.

I killed two fine specimens of the ivory-billed woodpecker and saw many more.

The red-winged blackbird was seen in swarms in all the swamps and marshes, and great flocks of

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