Excerpt from Denizens of the Desert: A Book of Southwestern Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles For the past ten years the writer has been an al most continual saunterer over mountain and desert trails a constant searcher of the wild places of nature that he might know intimately the green growing things and learn more of the life-histories of the animals, birds, and insects that dwell in the unfrequented and secluded domains of the wild. It is with a desire to share the pleasures derived from his observations and studies that he sends forth these sketches of the lives of the denizens of our Southwestern deserts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.