CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface xi 



Key to the Ordebs of North American Birds . . . xiv 



CHAPTER 



I. The Lesson a Goose Started 1 



II. The Horned Grebe 5 



III. The Great Diver 11 



Key to Pygopodes 17 



IV. The California Gull 18 



V. The Black Tern 26 



Key to Longipennes and Tubinares. SZ 



VI. The Double-crested Cormorant 33 



VII. The White Fisher 37 



Key to Steganopodes 44 



VITI. Johnnie Greenhkid 45 



IX. Jimmy the Goose 59 



X. Lady Jane the Swan 65 



XL The Shitepoke 75 



Key to Herodiones 80 



XII. The Silent Dancer 81 



XIII. The Sora Eail 88 



XIV. The American Coot 93 



Key to Paludicol^ 97 



XV. The Killdeer 98 



Key to Limicol^ 103 



XVT. Lady Betty's Husband 104 



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