Stories of Birds
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Chapters (77)
- Cover Art
- [Frontispiece: "He came quite close and stared at the little girl" (missing from book)]
- STORIES OF BIRDS
- Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
- Illustrated by Sophie Schneider
- Boston: L. C. Page and Company Publishers
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- The Chickadee In the Snow Twenty Little Chickadees The Snowbird's Song How the Birds Got Their Feathers Chilly Little Chickadees All About the Chickadee Robin Redbreast Merry Robin Redbreast The Robin's Red Breast Which Was the Wiser? All About the Robin The Swallow Under the Eaves The Swallows All About the Barn Swallow The Hawk and the Raven From the Barnyard Fence The First Hawk Origin of the Raven and the Macaw All About the Chicken-Hawk All About the Raven The Kingfisher With the Water Watchman The Halcyon Birds All About the Kingfisher The Red-Headed Woodpecker In Cap of Red A Legend of the Northland All About the Woodpecker The Lark In the Meadow The Song of the Merry Lark Saved by a Lark All About the Meadow Lark The Owl A Good-Night The Owl (Tennyson) The Owl Girl The Owl and the Raven The Owl (Shakespeare) All About the Barred or Hoot Owl The Bobolink A Summer Song Robert of Lincoln All About the Bobolink or Rice-Bird The Sea-Doves and the Great Blue Heron Beside the Sea Sea-Pigeons The Sandpiper The Circling of Cranes All About the Great Blue Heron or Blue Crane All About the Sea-Dove
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- "He came quite close and stared at the little girl" (see page 4) . . . . . . Frontispiece "By this time the robin was on the ground" "'No robin or chickadee could build such nests as the swallow'" "On a branch sat a bird. He was considerably larger than a robin" "The owl only blinked his great eyes" "'She is sitting on a nestful of light blue eggs'"
- THE CHICKADEE OR SNOWBIRD
- The Chickadee
- IN THE SNOW
- TWENTY LITTLE CHICKADEES
- THE SNOWBIRD'S SONG[1]
- HOW THE BIRDS GOT THEIR FEATHERS (IROQUOIS MYTH)
- CHILLY LITTLE CHICKADEES[1]
- ALL ABOUT THE CHICKADEE SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS.
- ROBIN REDBREAST
- MERRY ROBIN REDBREAST
- [Illustration: "By this time the robin was on the ground" (missing from book)]
- THE ROBIN'S RED BREAST[1]
- WHICH WAS THE WISER?[1]
- ALL ABOUT THE ROBIN SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- THE SWALLOW
- The Swallow
- UNDER THE EAVES
- "'No robin or chickadee could build such nests as the swallow'"
- THE SWALLOWS
- ALL ABOUT THE BARN SWALLOW SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- THE HAWK AND THE RAVEN
- The Hawk
- FROM THE BARNYARD FENCE
- THE FIRST HAWK
- ORIGIN OF THE RAVEN AND THE MACAW (ZUNI CREATION MYTH)
- ALL ABOUT THE CHICKEN-HAWK SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- ALL ABOUT THE RAVEN SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- THE KINGFISHER OR HALCYON BIRD
- WITH THE WATER WATCHMAN
- "On a branch sat a bird. He was considerably larger than a robin"
- THE HALCYON BIRDS
- ALL ABOUT THE KINGFISHER SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- THE RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
- Woodpecker
- IN CAP OF RED
- A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND[1]
- ALL ABOUT THE WOODPECKER SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- THE LARK
- Larks
- IN THE MEADOW
- THE SONG OF THE MERRY LARK[1]
- SAVED BY A LARK[1]
- ALL ABOUT THE MEADOW LARK SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- THE OWL
- The Owl
- A GOOD-NIGHT
- "The owl only blinked his great eyes"
- THE OWL
- THE OWL GIRL
- THE OWL AND THE RAVEN[1]
- THE OWL
- ALL ABOUT THE BARRED OR HOOT OWL SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- THE BOBOLINK
- The Bobolink
- A SUMMER SONG
- "'She is sitting on a nestful of light blue eggs'"
- ROBERT OF LINCOLN
- ALL ABOUT THE BOBOLINK OR RICEBIRD SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- THE SEA-DOVES AND THE GREAT BLUE HERON
- Great Blue Heron
- BESIDE THE SEA
- SEA-PIGEONS
- THE SANDPIPER[1]
- THE CIRCLING OF CRANES
- ALL ABOUT THE GREAT BLUE HERON OR BLUE CRANE SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
- ALL ABOUT THE SEA-DOVE SUGGESTIONS FOR FIELD LESSONS
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