From the Society’s own Press

DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to those of my boy and girl friends who are never satisfied with a story unless it is entirely true. While the most of my stories are partly true, I have never before written one that is entirely and wholly true in every particular. The story of my aviary and the pets in it is taken from my diaries, and many of the birds are still living and moving and having their being, and are always glad to see any girls and boys who call on them, if they do not come in too great numbers at one time.

Marshall Saunders.

Boston, January, 1908.

CONTENTS

ChapterPage
[I.][The Story of Two Owls][11]
[II.][The Owls Start on Their Travels][22]
[III.][A Reign of Robins][34]
[IV.][A Naughty Mockingbird][41]
[V.][A Robin and Sparrow Friendship][48]
[VI.][Dixie and Tardy][57]
[VII.][Rabbits and Guineapigs][66]
[VIII.][My Pet Rats][75]
[IX.][Farewell to the Rats and Rabbits][83]
[X.][A Bird from Over the Sea][95]
[XI.][Good-bye to the Gallinules][104]
[XII.][First Acquaintance with Pigeons][111]
[XIII.][The Homing Pigeon the King of Birds][120]
[XIV.][Princess Sukey][129]
[XV.][Pigeons and Hawks][139]
[XVI.][Sukey and Her Foster-pigeon][150]
[XVII.][Minnie Post-office][161]
[XVIII.][My First Canaries][168]
[XIX.][Raising Young Birds][179]
[XX.][Canary Characteristics][191]
[XXI.][Little Peters][200]
[XXII.][Crested Cardinals][212]
[XXIII.][Cardinal Babies][226]
[XXIV.][Sparrows and Swallows][239]
[XXV.][A Mother Carey’s Chicken][248]
[XXVI.][Sweet-sweet and the Saint of the Aviary][252]
[XXVII.][A Hummingbird and Native and Foreign Finches][262]
[XXVIII.][Japanese Robins and a Bobolink][275]

LIST OF
COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS

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[European Goldfinch][Frontispiece]
[Purple Gallinule][95]
[American Goldfinch][195]
[Red and Brazilian Cardinals][212]
[Indigo Bunting][260]
[Flying Squirrels][273]