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Title: Citizen Bird

Author: Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues

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CITIZEN BIRD

Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners

BY

MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT AND ELLIOTT COUES

With One Hundred and Eleven Illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

1897

[Illustration: Long-eared owl.]

TO ALL BOYS AND GIRLS
WHO LOVE BIRDS
AND WISH TO PROTECT THEM

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHORS

_SCENE_:
THE ORCHARD FARM.

_TIME_:
FROM SPRING TO AUTUMN.

_CHARACTERS_:
DR. ROY HUNTER, a naturalist.
OLIVE, the Doctor's daughter.
NAT and DODO, the Doctor's nephew and niece.
RAP, a country boy.
MAMMY BUN, an old colored nurse.
OLAF, a fisherman.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
OVERTURE BY THE BIRDS

CHAPTER II
THE DOCTOR'S WONDER ROOM

CHAPTER III
A SPARROW SETTLES THE QUESTION

CHAPTER IV
THE BUILDING OF A BIRD

CHAPTER V
CITIZEN BIRD

CHAPTER VI
THE BIRD AS A TRAVELLER

CHAPTER VII
THE BIRD'S NEST

CHAPTER VIII
BEGINNING OF THE BIRD STORIES

CHAPTER IX
A SILVER-TONGUED FAMILY
Bluebird--Robin--Wood Thrush--Wilson's Thrush--Hermit
Thrush--Olive-backed Thrush.

CHAPTER X
PEEPERS AND CREEPERS
Golden-crowned Kinglet--White-breasted
Nuthatch--Chickadee--Brown Creeper.

CHAPTER XI
MOCKERS AND SCOLDERS
Sage Thrasher--Mockingbird--Catbird--Brown
Thrasher--Rock Wren--House Wren--Long-billed Marsh Wren.

CHAPTER XII
WOODLA