
Stories of Birds

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Memory Gems for Children, by Jessie Carr Tyndall, Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Company, (1912).
True Bird Stories, by Olive Thorne Miller, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, (1903).
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Stories of Birds
Our Feathered Friends, by Elizabeth Grinnell and Joseph Grinnell, Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., Publishers, (1898).
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Mother Nature’s Children, by Allen Walton Gould, Boston: Ginn & Company, (1900).
of Contents Mother Nature’s Children ..........................................1 How the Birds Cradle their Babies ........................................... 3 How Babies are Cradled in Clay and Wood ........................... 12 How the Birds Tend their Babies ........................................... 16 How Mother Nature Sets the Table for Birds ........................ 24 How Mother Nature Clothes the Birds .................................. 32 How Birds Learn to Fly .......................................................... 39 How Men and Birds Lay Up Food .......................................... 44 Our Feathered Friends..............................................53 Introduction............................................................................ 55 The Message of a Mocking Bird ............................................. 60 Some People We Like to Know.............................................. 63 Civilized Birds......................................................................... 67 How Birds Dress..................................................................... 71 How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair........................................ 76 What Birds Carry in their Pockets ......................................... 80 Child Birds.............................................................................. 85 How Baby Birds are Fed ......................................................... 90 At Meal-Time ......................................................................... 95 Seed-Eaters and Meat-Eaters ................................................100 Some Birds with a Bad Name...............................................104 Before Breakfast ...................................................................109 Our Birds’ Restaurant. Meals at all Hours.......................114 Umbrellas and Other Things ................................................119
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Table of Contents Continued Cradle Making ......................................................................125 Our Screech Owl ..................................................................130 Birds at Work and Play.........................................................135 Some Other Birds at Work ...................................................140 A Pet Humming-Bird............................................................147 How We Took the Humming-Birds’ Pictures ......................151 Our Robin Redbreast............................................................159 More About Our Robin ........................................................164 Going to Bed and Getting Up ...............................................170 Mrs. Towhee Proposes a Garden Party.................................176 At the Garden Party..............................................................181 Our Bird Hospital .................................................................188 A Splendid Collection...........................................................191 True Bird Stories ................................................... 195 Preface ..................................................................................196 n the Bird Room..................................................................197 The Bird Room ......................................................................199 The Gold Finches ..................................................................202 The Goldfinch’s Fright...........................................................205 The Bird That Would Not Be Free........................................208 The Busy Blue Jay..................................................................212 The Droll Tanager.................................................................219 The Goldfinch’s Devotion .....................................................222 A Madcap Thrush .................................................................225 The Baby Robin .....................................................................231

A
Doctor
How the
Out of Doors ...............................................................301
in the Bird Room........................................................278
Lost Baby........................................................................321
Golden Goose.................................................................265
Oriole...................................................................271
Polly’s
Swallows in a Frolic.......................................................311
The Goldfinch’s
How the
Birds
Upper
Dog Interfered.........................................................315
The
Crow Baby was Punished ........................................325
Wild Robins .............................................................329
Droll Mockingbird..........................................................332
Dot.............................................................................294
Birds
Bird
and Lower Story in the Bird World.............................318
Blizzards
Friendly
Outing.........................................................................259
Polly’s
The
Antics
Poems .............................................................345

Fun ..............................................................239
Comical Chewink...........................................................246
The
A Jay’s
Ducklings Who Would Not Give Up.............................340
The
My
Sociable Baby Dove ...........................................................337
The Saucy
that Live in a House ....................................289
The Thrushes
Who Lived in the City....................................307
First Bird ..........................................................................303
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and Dolls.......................................................................343
Pranks .........................................................................253
Barn
Table Manners...........................................................327
Three Sparrows
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How Madam Bird Combs Her Hair

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Going to Bed and Getting Up


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The Gold Finches

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