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A paradise of birds : when spring comes to Texas

Title
A paradise of birds : when spring comes to Texas / by Helen Gere Cruickshank ; photographs by Allan D. Cruickshank.
Author
Cruickshank, Helen Gere
Publication
  • New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, [1968]
  • ©1968

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Additional Authors
Cruickshank, Allan D.
Description
xii, 398 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
Subject
  • Birds > Texas
  • Birds
  • Texas
Contents
The time of singing birds -- Twilight for whoopers -- Always in the present -- The dance of the wild turkey -- The cave of a million bats -- A look of innocence -- Where the West begins -- We meet a rock hound -- Needle to the north -- The strange forest of Dagger Flat -- On a high plateau -- Llano Estacado, the staked plains -- Loma de la Montuosa -- The loma of the coals of fire -- Vingtune -- Joe's Henry -- Colonists from a far country -- Safe haven after a thousand perils -- The day the tern eggs hatched -- Island of silent birds -- Listen! The wind is rising! -- Broza, adobe, tarantulas, and pyrrhuloxias -- The song has ended -- Index.
LCCN
68016876
OCLC
  • ocm00439668
  • 439668
  • SCSB-317243
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library