STRINGS AND COTTON AND CHICKEN FEATHERS FOR THE BIRDS’ NESTINGS (See page 56)

COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY
S. LOUISE PATTESON
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DEDICATED TO
BOYS AND GIRLS

FOREWORD

This narrative of neighborship with birds issuggestive rather than exhaustive. It aims not somuch to inform the reader, as to instill in him thedesire to learn from the outdoors itself, to knowat first hand about the charms and the benefactionsof birdlife. The observing reader will supplywhat has been left unsaid, and so experience thezest of initiative, the joy of discovery, in ourmysterious and manifold bird-world.

SUET AND DOUGHNUTS FOR DOWNY, CORN FOR THECARDINAL, CEREAL FOR THE SONG SPARROW

CONTENTS

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List of Illustrations vii

I. My First Bird Neighbors 1

II. New Adventures in Birdland 11

III. Real Troubles in Birdland 21

IV. The Bluebirds’ Bungalow 28

V. The Wrens’ Apartment House 36

VI. The Boy 44

VII. The Chimney Swifts 62

VIII. Birds Not of a Feather 68

IX. The Martins’ Aircastle 78

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