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Title: Bird Stories from Burroughs
Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs

Author: John Burroughs

Illustrator: Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Release Date: July 12, 2008 [EBook #26046]

Language: English

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[Illustration: GOLDFINCH (page 125)]

BIRD STORIES
FROM BURROUGHS

SKETCHES OF BIRD LIFE
TAKEN FROM THE WORKS OF

JOHN BURROUGHS

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES_

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BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge

COPYRIGHT, 1871, 1875, 1876, 1877, 1879, 1881, 1886, 1894, 1899, 1903,
1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, BY JOHN BURROUGHS

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

Transcriber's Note:

Hyphenation has been standardised. Minor typographical errors have
been corrected without note. The oe ligature is represented by [oe].

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

John Burroughs's first book, "Wake-Robin," contained a chapter entitled
"The Invitation." It was an invitation to the study of birds. He has
reiterated it, implicitly if not explicitly, in most of the books he has
published since then, and many of his readers have joyfully accepted it.
Indeed, such an invitation from Mr. Burroughs is the best possible
introduction to the birds of our Northeastern States, and it is likewise
an introduction to some very good reading. To convey this invitation to
a wider circle of young readers the most interesting bird stories in Mr.
Burroughs's books have been gathered into a single volume. A chapter is
given to each species of bird, and the chapters are arranged in a sort
of chronological order, according to the time of the bird's arrival in
the spring, the nesting time, or the season when for some other reason
the species is particularly conspicuous. In tak