Birds of Song and Story

by Elizabeth Grinnell; Joseph Grinnell

[CONTENTS]

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		[Frontispiece]
CHAPTER			PAGE
	Poem, The Birds		[7]
	Singers and Their Songs	Illustration	[9]
I	Our Comrade the Robin	Illustration	[17]
II	The Mocking-Bird	Illustration	[29]
III	The Cat-Bird	Illustration	[36]
IV	The Hermit-Thrush	Illustration	[40]
V	The Grosbeaks	Illustration	[45]
VI	The Orioles	Illustration	[53]
VII	The Biography of a Canary-Bird	Illustration	[61]
VIII	Sparrows and Sparrows	Illustration	[73]
IX	The Story of the Summer Yellowbird	Illustration	[83]
X	The Bluebird	Illustration	[94]
XI	The Tanager People	Illustration	[101]
XII	The Meadow-Lark	Illustration	[107]
XIII	Skylark (Horned Lark)	Illustration	[115]
XIV	Bobolink	Illustration	[121]
XV	At Nesting-Time		[130]
XVI	The Romance of Ornithology		[144]
	Index		[151]

[THE BIRDS]

They are swaying in the marshes,
They are swinging in the glen,
Where the cat-tails air their brushes
In the zephyrs of the fen;
In the swamp's deserted tangle,
Where the reed-grass whets its scythes;
In the dismal, creepy quagmire.
Where the snake-gourd twists and writhes.

They are singing in arroyos,
Where the cactus mails its breast.
Where the Spanish bayonet glistens
On the steep bank's rocky crest;
In the canon, where the cascade
Sets its pearls in maiden-hair,
Where the hay and holly beckon
Valley sun and mountain air.