ILLUSTRATIONS 



PAQB 



A Haunt of the Brown Thrasher 



Frontispiece 

 Loath to Leave Her Nestlings 



A Bluebird AVatching Both Them and 



Their Visitor 21 



Hungry and Cynical 



Sparrow Hawk 32 



Some First Fruits of Spring 



Young Crows 37 



Robin's Nest in a Rail Fence . . 39 

 ^'Old Sam Peabody's" Home 



Nest of the White-throated Sparrow . 46 

 The Catbird When He's Surly 48 



Oh, So Sleepy! 



Young Phoebes 53 



Proving His Equilibrium 



Kingfisher Twenty-three Days Old . 55 

 Breast to Breast with Mother Earth 



Nighthawk on Eggs ". . 62 



