TABLE OF CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



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Overture by the Birds ........ 1 



CHAPTER II 

 The Doctor's Wonder Room .9 



CHAPTER III 

 A Sparrow settles the Question ...... 15 



CHAPTER IV 

 The Building of a Bird ........ 25 



CHAPTER V 

 Citizen Bird 48 



CHAPTER VI 

 The Bird as a Traveller 63 



CHAPTER VII 

 The Bird's Nest 73 



CHAPTER VIII 

 Beginning of the Bird Stories 87 



CHAPTER IX 



A Silver-tongued Family ........ 93 



Bluebird — Robin — Wood Thrush — Wilson's Thrush — Her- 

 mit Thrush — Olive-backed Thrush. 



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