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