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| Gray Lady Appears | [1] |
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| II |
| A Rainy Day—The school at Foxes Corners at the beginning of the fall term. | [9] |
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| III |
| Gray Lady at School—The bird. What is it? To whom does it belong? The bird year—The migrations, the moulting, etc. | [18] |
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| IV |
| The Orchard Party—The children’s luncheon and the bird’s lunch-counter. Gray Lady makes a plan. | [38] |
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| V |
| Reasons Why—Why birds need protection. The uses of birds. What they do for us and what we should do for them—housing, feeding, etc. | [51] |
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| VI |
| Feathers and Hats—Egrets and Ostrich plumes—The wrong and the right of it. | [67] |
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| VII |
| The Kind Hearts’ Club—The work that kept the Fingers busy so that the Ears might listen. | [81] |
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| VIII |
| The Procession Passes—The fall journey—Five Swallows and a changeling. | [89] |
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| IX |
| Two Birds that came Back—The Tame Crow and the English Starling. | [102] |
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| X |
| Some Mischief-Makers—The American Crow, Blue Jay, and Purple Grackle. | [114] |
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| XI |
| The Flight of the Bird—The wonders of flight. Some new facts about the migrations of birds. | [136] |
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| XII |
| Some Suspicious Characters—Hawks and Owls—Two sides of the question. | [154] |
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| XIII |
| Tree-trunk Birds—The Woodpeckers—Sapsucker, Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, etc. | [175] |
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| XIV |
| Four Notables—Game-birds at home—The Ruffed Grouse, Bob-white, Woodcock, and the Wood Duck. | [197] |
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| XV |
| Game-Birds?—The plea of the Meadowlark, Mourning Dove, Sandpiper, Plovers, and Bobolink, the Masquerader. “Spare us, please! We are too small for food.” | [217] |
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| XVI |
| Treasure-trove at the Shore—The Herring or Harbour Gull. | [229] |
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| XVII |
| The Birds’ Christmas Tree—The preparation and a surprise. The Winter Wren, Tree-sparrow, Golden-crowned Kinglet, and Crossbills. | [242] |
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| XVIII |
| How they spent their Money—The result of the Xmas sale and the Letter Carrier’s horse. | [254] |
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| XIX |
| Behind the Bars—American birds that have been prisoners.—The Mockingbird, Cardinal, Nonpareil, and Indigo-bird. | [270] |
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| XX |
| Midwinter Birds—Cedar-Bird, Redpoll, Junco, Shrike, Whitethroat, Chickadee, etc. | [293] |
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| XXI |
| Jacob Hughes’ Opinion of Cats—The trail in the snow and the bandits that lived in the barn. | [303] |
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| XXII |
| February, “The Long-Short Month”—Stories and poems of the Bluebird, Song Sparrow, and Robin. | [310] |
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| XXIII |
| March—Red-wing, Kingfisher, and Phœbe. | [333] |
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| XXIV |
| The Tide has Turned—Wild Geese, Nest-Building, Vesper-Sparrow, Purple Finch, Chippy, Whip-poor-will, Towhee, Ovenbird, House Wren, Thrasher, Catbird, Wood Thrush, Veery, Nighthawk, Chimney Swift, etc. | [355] |
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| XXV |
| Bird and Arbour Day at Foxes Corners—In doors and out—Working and talking. | [385] |
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| XXVI |
| Some Birds that come in May—In apple-blossom time look for the brightly coloured birds—Oriole, Tanager, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Indigo-bird, Yellowthroat, Chat, Humming-bird, Redstart, etc. | [403] |
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| XXVII |
| Flag Day—Gray Lady receives and gives a surprise. | [431] |