Birdcraft/Front matter

by Mabel Osgood Wright

Birdcraft/Front matter

BIRDCRAFT

A FIELD BOOK OF TWO HUNDRED SONG GAME, AND WATER BIRDS

 

BY

MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT

AUTHOR OF "THE FRIENDSHIP OF NATURE,” “TOMMY ANNE” “CITIZEN BIRD,” ETC.

 

WITH EIGHTY FULL-PAGE PLATES BY LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES

 

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.

1903

All rights reserved

 

Copyright, 1895,

By MACMILLAN AND CO.

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Copyright, 1897,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

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Set up and electrotyped April, 1895. Reprinted January, 1896. Reprinted, with additions, and new illustrations, October, 1897; June, 1899; December, 1900; April 1903.

 

Northwood Press

J.S.Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith

Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

 

To I. O. W.

A RECORD OF HAPPY FIELD DAYS ABOUT HOME

Waldstein, Fairfield, Conn.
March 1, 1895

 

 

“Thus on Earth’s little ball to the birds you owe all, yet your gratitude’s small for the favours they’ve done.And their feathers you pill, and you eat them at will, yes, you plunder and kill the bright birds one by one;There’s a price on their head, and the Dodo is dead, and the Moa has fled from the face of the sun!”Andrew Lang.

And the birds sang round him, o’er him,“Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!”Sang the Opechee, the Robin,Sang the Bluebird, the Owaissa,“Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!”Longfellow.