Excerpt from Birds of Madison County, New York In considering the Bird fauna. Of a district, a knowledge of the topography and other physical conditions is important. The region in question includes all of Madison county, and is, roughly speaking, in the center of New York state. The district is traversed by rather deep fertile valleys seldom exceeding a mile in breadth and having a general trend of north and south. The north-eastern boundary upon Oneida county forms a part of the divide between the headwaters of the Mohawk and Susquehanna river systems. 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.