This volume contains stories, poems, myths, and facts about lots of different birds, intended for teaching children. It is divided into nine parts, each covering a different type of bird.

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• Preface
• THE CHICKADEE OR SNOWBIRD -- In the Snow
• Twenty Little Chickadees, and The Snowbird's Song
• How the Birds Got Their Feathers (Iroquois Myth)
• Chilly Little Chickadees
• All About the Chickadee: Suggestions for Field Lessons
• ROBIN READBREAST -- Merry Robin Redbreast
• The Robin's Read Breast
• Which was the Wiser?
• All About the Robin: Suggestions for Field Lessons
• THE SWALLOW -- Under the Eaves
• The Swallows
• All About the Barn Swallow: Suggestions for Field Studies
• THE HAWK AND THE RAVEN -- 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 Studies
• All About the Raven: Suggestions for Field Studies
• THE KINGFISHER OR HALCYON BIRD -- With the Water Watchman
• The Halcyon Birds
• All About the Kingfisher: Suggestions for Field Studies
• THE RED-HEADED WOODPECKER -- In a Cap of Red
• A Legend of the Northland by Pheobe Carey
• All About the Woodpecker: Suggestions for Field Studies
• THE LARK -- In the Meadow
• The Song of the Merry Lark
• Saved by a Lark
• All About the Meadow Lark: Suggestions for Field Studies
• THE OWL -- A Good-Night
• The Owl by Tennyson, and The Owl-Girl
• The Owl and the Raven
• The Owl by Shakespeare, and All About the Barred or Hoot Owl: Suggestions for Field Studies
• THE BOBOLINK -- A Summer Song
• Robert of Lincoln by Bryant
• All About the Bobolink or Rice-Bird: Suggestions for Field Studies
• 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, and All About the Sea-Dove: Suggestions for Field Studies