Our Bird Comrades

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Leander S. Keyser. Our Bird Comrades

Our Bird Comrades

Table of Contents

THE TABLE OF CONTENTS

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

AMERICAN SPARROW-HAWK … … … _Frontispiece_. CHIPPING SPARROW. YELLOW WARBLER. CHICKADEE. NUTHATCH. COWBIRD. BLUE JAY. PEWEE, OR PHOEBE (missing from book) SONG SPARROW. CARDINAL. WHITE-EYED VIREO. BALTIMORE ORIOLE. BOB-WHITE, OR QUAIL. ROBIN. MEADOW LARK. BARN SWALLOW. SPOTTED SANDPIPER, OR "PEET-WEET"

BEGINNING THE STUDY

MAKING NEW FRIENDS

WILDWOOD MINSTRELS*

CHICKADEE WAYS*

THE NUTHATCH FAMILY*

BIRDS OF THE INVERTED POSITION

A FEATHERED PARASITE*

A BLUE CANNIBAL*

A HANDSOME SCISSORSTAIL*

AN ALPINE ROSY FINCH*

HAPPENINGS BY THE WAY

[Illustration: Pewee, or Phoebe (missing from book)]

ODDS AND ENDS

WAYSIDE OBSERVATIONS

TROUBLE AMONG THE BIRDS*

A BIRD'S EDUCATION*

ARE BIRDS SINGERS OR WHISTLERS?*

BIRD FLIGHT*

A BIRD'S FOOT

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Leander S. Keyser

Published by Good Press, 2019

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A friend once told me of a letter he had received from a correspondent who is an enthusiastic botanist. The writer, having just returned from an excursion in which he found a flower that was new to him, gave vent to his feelings of exultation by exclaiming, "Oh, the joy! the joy!" A like experience comes to the bird lover when he makes a new acquaintance in the feathered domain, no matter how many other observers may have seen and studied the species. "A bird that is new to me is to all intents and purposes a new bird," is his self-complacent mode of reasoning, though it may not be distinguished for its logic.

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