RECOGNITION 
Tue author desires to thank Mr. William Dutcher for 
permission to reproduce the Drawings of Birds prepared 
under his supervision for the Educational Leaflets of the 
National Association of Audubon Societies; Mr. Frank M. 
Chapman for the quotation of material that has appeared 
in Bird-Lore, also for photographs from his negatives; 
the American Museum of Natural History of New York 
City for photographs of its groups representing Bird Life 
at Cobbs Island, Virginia, and Birds of the St. Joaquin 
Walley; to Dr. 'T..\S... Roberts,, Dr. ©. FF. Hodge,, BR. H. 
Beebe, and E. van Alterna, for use of valuable photographs; 
Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for their courtesy in allowing quo- 
tations from the poems of Celia Thaxter, Maurice Thompson, 
Frank Bolles, Lowell, and others; Charles Scribner’s Sons 
for like permission to use the poems of G. P. Lathrop and 
Henry van Dyke. 
Also to Dr. Henry van Dyke, Edmund C. Stedman, 
Edith M. Thomas, Oliver Herford, Dora Reed Goodale, 
George Parsons Lathrop, Dr. Garrett Newkirk, Faith C. 
Lee, Ella Gilbert Ives, Florence A. Van Zant, Lynn Tew 
Sprague, Richard Burton, W. B. Blake, and others for the 
use of their poems, ete. 
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