CONTENTS 



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Introduction 9 



I. Suggestions 15 



II. Other Hints for the Be- 

 ginner 25 



III. Bird Notes and Their Value 34 



IV. In the Wake of the Brown 



Thrasher 56 



V. Rainy Weather and Wrens 72 

 VI. The Wood Warblers ... 83 

 VII. Tangle WOOD Lane and Skip- 

 pack Creek 93 



VIII. Two ViREOs AND Some Friends 110 



IX. At the End of June ... 119 



X. Bird Songs After Dark . . 129 



XL Midsummer Memoranda . . 136 



XII. Birds on the Wing 163 



XIII. Dick 175 



XIV. In Winter 181 



XV. Field Key 195 



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