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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| Red-eyed Vireo. | [Frontispiece] |
| FACING PAGE | |
| It is Only When he is a Baby that you Could Guess ourRobin is Really a Thrush. (A. R. Dugmore) | [8] |
| Young Bluebirds Taking their First Walk. (A. R. Dugmore) | [9] |
| Baby Wood Thrushes—Notice the Family Resemblance Betweenthem and the Baby Robins and Bluebirds. (A. R. Dugmore) | [12] |
| A Wood Thrush Startled by the Click of the Camera. (A. R.Dugmore) | [13] |
| The Chickadee at her Front Door. (A. R. Dugmore) | [22] |
| Young Nuthatches Learning their First Lesson in Balancingon a Horizontal Bar. (W. E. Carlin) | [23] |
| The Noisy Contents of a Soap Box: a Family of House Wrens.(A. R. Dugmore) | [30] |
| The Marsh Wren's Round Cradle Swung Among the Rushes. (A.R. Dugmore) | [31] |
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| Like "Brer Rabbit" the Catbird is Usually "Bred en Bawn ina Brier Patch." (A. R. Dugmore) | [34] |
| Another Tragedy of the Nests: What Villain Ate theCatbird's Eggs? (Verne Morton) | [35] |
| "Mamma!" Young Mockingbird Calling for Breakfast. (A. R.Dugmore) | [50] |
| All is Well with this Yellow Warbler's Nest. (G. C.Embody) | [51] |
| Dinner for One: A Black-and-white Warbler Feeding herBaby. (A. R. Dugmore) | [51] |
| The Oven-bird who Calls "Teacher, Teacher, TEACHER,TEACHER, TEACHER!" (William P. Hopkins) | [58] |
| Oven-bird in her Cleverly Hidden Nest—Some of the Leavesand Sticks Have Been Pulled Away From the Front to Secureher picture. (A. R. Dugmore) | [59] |
| Young Oven-birds on Day of Leaving Nest. (A.R. Dugmore) | [59] |
| A Red-eyed Vireo Baby in his Cradle. (A. R. Dugmore) | [76] |
| Out of It. (A. R. Dugmore) | [76] |
| Home of the Loggerhead Shrike with Plenty of ConvenientHooks for this Butcher Bird to Hang Meat On. (R. H. Beehe) | [77] |
| The Cedar Waxwing. (W. P. Hopkins) | [84] |
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| The Gorgeous Scarlet Tanager, who Sang in this Tree, WasKilled by a Sling Shot. The Nest Was Deserted by hisTerrified Mate. (A. R. Dugmore) | [85] |
| Young Barn Swallows Cradled Under the Rafters. (A. R.Dugmore) | [96] |
| Baby Barn Swallows Learning to Walk a Plank. (A. R.Dugmore) | [97] |
| The Most Cheerful of Bird Neighbours: Song Sparrows. (A.R. Dugmore) | [116] |
| A Baby Chippy and its Two Big Rose-breasted GrosbeakCousins. | [116] |
| A Chipping Sparrow Family: One Baby Satisfied, the NextNearly So, the Third Still Hungry. (A. R. Dugmore) | [117] |
| Cardinal. (C. W. Beebe) | [134] |
| That Dusky Rascal the Cowbird. (C. W. Beebe) | [135] |
| The Gorgeous Baltimore Oriole. (A. R. Dugmore) | [146] |
| How do you Suppose these Young Baltimore Orioles EverPacked themselves into this Nest? (A. R. Dugmore) | [147] |
| Young Orchard Orioles. (A. R. Dugmore) | [150] |
| "There Were Three Crows Sat on a Tree." (A. R. Dugmore) | [151] |
| Blue Jay on her Nest. (R. H. Beebe) | [158] |
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| Five Little Teasers Get No Dinner from Mamma Blue Jay.(Craig S. Thomas) | [159] |
| Not Afraid of the Camera: Baby Blue Jays Out for theirFirst Airing. (Craig S. Thomas) | [159] |
| The Dashing Great Crested Flycatcher. (A. R. Dugmore) | [162] |
| Baby Kingbirds in an Apple Tree. (A. R. Dugmore) | [163] |
| Four Crested Flycatchers, who Need to Have their HairBrushed. (A. R. Dugmore) | [164] |
| Time for these Young Phoebes to Leave the Nest. (A. R.Dugmore) | [165] |
| Young Phoebes on a Bridge Trestle. (A. R. Dugmore) | [165] |
| Least Flycatchers in a Rose Bush | [176] |
| Nighthawk Resting in the Sunlight. (John Boyd) | [177] |
| A Chimney Swift at Rest. (C. W. Beebe) | [180] |
| Hummingbird Pumping Food into her Babies' Crops. (JulianBurroughs) | [181] |
| Twin Ruby-throats. (Julian Burroughs) | [181] |
| Our Little Friend Downy. (A. R. Dugmore) | [192] |
| The Red-headed Woodpecker. (C. W. Beehe) | [193] |
| The Sapsucker. (G. C. Embody) | [198] |
| Baby Flickers Just Out of their Hole. (A. R. Dugmore) | [199] |
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| The Flicker. (C. W. Beebe) | [206] |
| Two Baby Cuckoos on the Rickety Bundle of Sticks that byCourtesy we Call a Nest. (Verne Morton) | [207] |
| Waiting for Mamma and Fish. (A. W. Anthony) | [210] |
| Young Belted Kingfisher on his Favourite Snag. (A. W.Anthony) | [210] |
| Kingfisher on the Look-out for a Dinner. (A. W. Anthony) | [211] |
| Turkey Buzzard: One of Nature's Best Housecleaners. (C.W. Beebe) | [226] |
| The Beautiful Little Sparrow Hawk. (C. W. Beebe) | [227] |
| Father and Mother Barn Owls. (Silas A. Lottridge) | [232] |
| The Heavenly Twins: Young Barn Owls. (Silas A. Lottridge) | [233] |
| A Little Screech Owl in the Sunlight Where Only aPhotographer Could Find him. (C. W. Beehe) | [236] |
| Mrs. White on her Nest while Bob Whistles to her from theWild Strawberry Patch. (A. R. Dugmore) | [237] |
| A Little Girl's Rare Pet. (C. F. Hodge) | [242] |
| The Drummer Drumming. (C. F. Hodge) | [243] |
| A Flock of Friendly Sandpipers and Turnstones in Wading.(Herbert K. Job) | [258] |
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| One Little Sandpiper. (R. H. Beebe) | [259] |
| The Coot. (C. W. Beebe) | [259] |
| The Little Green Heron, the Smallest and Most AbundantMember of his Tribe. (W. P. Hopkins) | [260] |
| Half-grown Little Green Herons on Dress Parade. (John M.Schreck) | [261] |
| Black-crowned Night Heron Rising from a Morass. (Alfred J.Might) | [268] |
| Canada Geese. (Geo. D. Bartlett) | [269] |
| The Feather-lined Nest of a Wild Duck | [272] |
| Sea Gulls in the Wake of a Garbage Scow Cleansing New YorkHarbour of Floating Refuse. | [273] |
CHAPTER I
OUR ROBIN GOODFELLOW AND HIS RELATIONS:
American Robin
Bluebird
Wood Thrush
Wilson's Thrush
THE AMERICAN ROBIN
Called also: Red-breasted Thrush; Migratory Thrush; Robin Redbreast
It is only when he is a baby that you could guess our robin is really a thrush, for then the dark speckles on his plump little yellowish-white breast are prominent thrush-like markings, which gradually fade, however, as he grows old enough to put on a brick-red vest like his father's.