Excerpt from The Birds of the Everglades and Their Neighbors, the Seminole Indians Would you like a glimpse into the primeval forest of America? Then let us turn the slide and look upon a picture in the heart of Amer ica's Least Known Wilderness - the great Everglades of Florida. We turn the clock of time back twenty - five years, only a span in the history of a community or a Nation. We see upon this flame lit screen, massive live oaks, festooned with the swinging, wind-tossed moss, which, with the tall cabbage palms, cocoanuts, magnolias and India rubber and mangrove trees, make a framework or back ground; swaying, dangling, green and yellow and red trimmed vines, rare and brilliant orchids. Wild coffee plants, the myrtle and the bay, with the wild lemon and the custard apple, make the scene a veritable fairyland of jungle beauty, a land of mystery that will ever lend a thrill to the name of Florida. Butterfly colonies float here and there with feather-like lightness, as they rise from their island homes, making the scene a maze of yellow and green a mosaic of wondrous beauty like a picture under glass. 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.