STORIES FROM BURROUGHS
JOHN BURROUGHS
BIRD STORIES
FROM BURROUGHS
SKETCHES OF BIRD LIFE
TAKEN FROM THE WORKS OF
JOHN BURROUGHS
_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES_
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BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1871, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1881, 1886, 1894, 1899, 1903,
1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, BY JOHN BURROUGHS
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
Transcriber's Note:
Hyphenation has been standardised. Minor typographical errors have
been corrected without note.
PUBLISHERS' NOTE
John Burroughs's first book, "Wake-Robin," contained a chapter entitled
"The Invitation." It was an invitation to the study of birds. He has
reiterated it, implicitly if not explicitly, in most of the books he has
published since then, and many of his readers have joyfully accepted it.
Indeed, such an invitation from Mr. Burroughs is the best possible
introduction to the birds of our Northeastern States, and it is likewise
an introduction to some very good reading. To convey this invitation to
a wider circle of young readers the most interesting bird stories in Mr.
Burroughs's books have been gathered into a single volume. A chapter is
given to each species of bird, and the chapters are arranged in a sort
of chronological order, according to the time of the bird's arrival in
the spring, the nesting time, or the season when for some other reason
the species is particularly conspicuous. In taking the stories out of
their original setting a few slight verbal alterations have been
necessary here and there, but these have been made either by Mr.
Burroughs himself or with his approval.
CONTENTS
THE BLUEBIRD 1
THE BLUEBIRD (_poem_) 13
THE ROBIN 15
THE FLICKER 21
THE PHЕ’BE 28
THE COMING OF PHЕ’BE (_poem_) 31
THE COWBIRD 33
THE CHIPPING SPARROW 36
THE CHEWINK 39
THE BROWN THRASHER 42
THE HOUSE WREN 47
THE SONG SPARROW 53
THE CHIMNEY SWIFT 61
THE OVEN-BIRD 69
THE CATBIRD 72
THE BOBOLINK 77
THE BOBOLINK (_poem_) 82
THE WOOD THRUSH 83
THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE 91
THE WHIP-POOR-WILL 95
THE BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER: A SEARCH FOR
A RARE NEST 100
THE MARSH HAWK: A MARSH HAWK'S NEST, A YOUNG
HAWK, AND A VISIT TO A QUAIL ON HER NEST 106
THE WINTER WREN 119
THE CEDAR-BIRD 122
THE GOLDFINCH 125
THE HEN-HAWK 130
THE RUFFED GROUSE, OR PARTRIDGE 133
THE PARTRIDGE (_poem_) 137
THE CROW 138
THE CROW (_poem_) 144
THE NORTHERN SHRIKE 147
THE SCREECH OWL 151
THE CHICKADEE 157
THE DOWNY WOODPECKER
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