A-birding on a bronco

By

Bailey, Florence Merriam, 1863-1948
Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1896

Notes

"Several of the articles have appeared before ... in 'The Auk', 'The Observer' and 'Our animal friends'."--Pref. note.

Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge.

Illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

Includes index.

Contents: Our valley -- The little lover -- Like a thief in the night -- Was it a sequel? -- Little prisoners in the tower -- Hints by the way -- Around our ranch-house -- Pocket makers -- The big sycamore -- Among my tenants -- An unnamed bird -- Hummers -- In the shade of the oaks -- A mysterious tragedy -- How I helped build a nest -- In our neighbor's door-yard -- Which was the mother bird? -- A rare bird -- My blue gum grove.

A-Birding on a Bronco is a naturalist piece by Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey. It shares a record of the writer's birding observations over a couple of years in southern California.

Subjects

Birds , California

BHL Collections

Women in Natural History

Call Number

QL676 .B15X

Classification

598.9794

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.12539
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/05021561
OCLC: 2515855
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51402260