CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I Birds of a Smoky City ... 9 



II The Songsters of the Skokie - - - 19 



III Through the Lost River Valley - - 29 



IV In Southern Hoosier Hills - - - 39 

 V In Winter Fields - - - 50 



VI On the Trail of Pokagon - - - 60 



VII Some Odd Bits of Bird Life - - 68 



VIII In God's Acre - - - - 78 



IX Where the Black Tern Builds - - 87 



X Comedy and Tragedy - - - - 97 



XI Spring on the Kankakee - - - 106 



XII "From Haunts of Coot and Hern" - - 116 



XIII The Reaches of the Prairie - - 129 



XIV G. N. Shrike, Butcher ... 139 



