Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 109
of the wind, that made the palm-frondshiss and rattle like a boats rigging in a gale, orthe rabbits in the mesquit thickets near by, thatmade the attraction of the spot to the fierce, soli-tary bird. Whenever I approached, he wouldsail off with a few broad sweeps of wing, andcome circling back only… … THE eagles PALM.Mount San Jacinto in tlie background. Cranes, herons, ducks, snipe, coot, geese, andmany more, I noted from my blind among thearrow-weed beside the little alkaline pool. I amsure that a naturalist could find no better field ofstudy than one of these palm oases, to which the NATURE…
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