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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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204 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Such briefly was the history of the creation of the first national bird reservation in the United States. In the ten years which have since elapsed many other islands and pieces of public land have been dedicated to the
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Location of national bird reservations and administration districts. Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture From Circular 87. birds until the number of reservations has increased from one to sixty-one, but Pelican Island still remains the best known and one of the most accessible. Location of the Reservations National bird reservations are widely scattered in nineteen states and territories, from Florida and Porto Rico in the south to Michigan, Montana, Washington and Alaska in the north and the Aleutian Islands and Hawaii in the west. Between Chamisso Island in Alaska and Culebra Island, Porto Rico, is a distance of nearly 50 degrees of latitude, and between Attu, the most distant of the Aleutian Islands and Culebra is a distance of more than 120 degrees of longitude. In other words, the most remote reserva- tions are separated by a space equal to one-third the distance around the world from north to south and from west to east, and in visiting them a traveler must journey farther than in going from New York to Mombasa, British East Africa, or from London eastward to Manila. In the following lists the reservations are arranged both chronologically and alphabetically to facilitate reference:

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