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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (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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.^i-a* ^'^TT'^JS^- ^^rVrM^*b^fJ^ Schaeffer's Farm, Newburg, where the Brooklj-n mastodon was found, beaver pond, now a fertile meadow ■h'^;/--*"'-^*; The site of an ancient most natural, is that the beaver uses his tail as a trowel, and also in the trans- portation of various materials. He really ought to do these things for which the tail seems so well adapted, but he doesn't. He does however, give notice of impending danger by striking the ground or water, as the case may be; and the slap of a beaver's tail on the water will resound through the quiet night like the crack of a rifle. So much for the beaver in general; a great deal more might be said about him, and has been said in a number of books, besides numberless papers, popu- lar and otherwise. As might be expected, any animal that covers almost the length and breadth of a continent is subject to variation in parts of its range, and although ten- dency to vary is in a meas- ure checked by great simi- larity in habitat and habits, there is enough to divide th^ beaver into four or five geographic races or subspecies. That shown in our group
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/Jv^^odaVi^^o The Arms of New Amsterdam is the Sonoran beaver. The specimens with the permission of the Department of Game and Fish of Colorado, were taken by Mr. Albert E. Butler in the sum- mer of 1913 and so do not show the ani- mals at their best as regards coat, although it is necessary to show them at this time of year in order to include the young and have the surroundings. When capturing the beaver, Mr. Butler also took photographs and gathered the trees, house and foliage used in the group. The background of the group, which incidentally portrays a dam and canal, is by Mr. Hobart Nichols, whose skilled brush has provided appropriate settings not only for many of the habitat groups cf birds but also for the equally beautiful groups of amphibians. The locality is a valley in Estes Park, Colorado, looking from the slope of Mount Meeker toward Lily Moun- tain . Here years ago, the busy beav- ers dammed the lit- tle stream convert- ing the valley into a series of ponds and swamps. 135

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