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Title: In Nesting Time

Author: Olive Thorne Miller

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IN NESTING TIME

BY

OLIVE THORNE MILLER

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1893

Copyright, 1888,
BY H. M. MILLER.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

_"Very few people have the least idea what wild creatures are like.
Their notion generally is to shoot them, and then pick them up for
examination; which is the same thing as if some being of superior race,
seeing children at play, were to shoot a few at long range, and then
turn them over and describe them and consider himself learned in their
structure, habits, and appearance."_--JEAN INGELOW.

INTRODUCTORY.

The sketches of bird manners and customs in this little collection are
the record of careful observation, and scrupulously true in every
particular. The facts may not all be new to Science, but since they are
genuine studies from life, and each bird whose acquaintance I make is as
truly a discovery to me as if he were totally unknown to the world, I
venture to hope that lovers of birds may find in these pages real, live,
individuals in feathers, honestly "brothers of ours."

OLIVE THORNE MILLER.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

I. BABY BIRDS 1

Purple Crow Blackbird. _Quiscalus quiscula._
Redwing Blackbird. _Ageloeus phoeniceus._
Yellow-Throated Warbler. _Dendroica dominica._
Baltimore Oriole. _Icterus galbula._
White-Bellied Nuthatch. _Sitta carolinensis._
American Robin. _Merula migratoria._
Phoebe. _Sayornis phoebe._

II. BIRD-STUDY IN A SOUTHERN STATE