tailieunhanh - BIRD STORIES FROM BURROUGHS SKETCHES OF BIRD LIFE TAKEN FROM THE WORKS OF JOHN BURROUGHS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES

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. | BIRD STORIES FROM BURROUGHS SKETCHES OF BIRD LIFE TAKEN FROM THE WORKS OF JOHN BURROUGHS WITH ILL USTRA TIONS BY LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES 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. v CONTENTS The Bluebird 1 The Bluebird poem 13 The robin 15 The Flicker 21 The Phh be 28 The coming of Phh 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 .