ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



In the "Foreword" of this book 1 express my grateful appre- 

 ciation to Dr. A. K. Fisher and Mr. E. H. Forbush for permission 

 to use extracts from published works. I wish to add my thanks 

 to Dr. Charles Richmond and Mr. Joseph Riley of the National 

 Museum of Washington, for their courtesy in furnishing me 

 with bird-skins from the National Museum collections and a 

 copy of the A. O. U. Check-list of 1910, used for the descrip- 

 tions and ranges of the birds described in the !ext. 



I am indebted to Dr. John M. Clarke, Director of the State 

 Museum of the University of New York, for the permission to 

 make selections from Eaton's "Birds of New York"; also to Dr. 

 Francis H. Herrick, of Western Reserve University, and Dr. 

 Alexander Wetmore, of the Biological Survey, for the right to 

 quote from their publications. 



The selections from John Burroughs, Thoreau, Frank Bolles, 

 Dallas Lore Sharp, Florence Merriam, Olive Thome Miller, 

 Henry W. Longfellow, E. R. Sill, Celia Thaxter, Lucy Larcom, 

 and Edna Dean Proctor, are used by permission of, and by 

 special arrangement with, The Houghton Mifflin Co., the author- 

 ized publishers. Three selections from Wilson Flagg's "Birds of 

 New England" are used by special arrangement with the Page 

 Co. of Boston. 



To the Courtesy of D. Appleton & Co. I am indebted for the 

 right to quote one stanza of Bryant's "To a Waterfowl," dates 

 and selections from Frank M. Chapman's "Birds of Eastern 

 North America"; to G. P. Putman's Sons for the use of three 

 extracts from Dr. Herrick's "Home Life of Wild Birds," and 

 to Charles Scribner's Sons for Henry van Dyke's rendering of 

 the song sparrow's song. I acknowledge also with thanks my ob- 

 ligation to Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, for his permission to use six 

 color-plates of the National Association of Audubon Societies 

 and to quote from the Educational Leaflets of the Society. 



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