CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



Preface ......... v 



List of Illustrations . ...... ix 



Introduction ........ xvii 



I. A New Method of Bird Study and Photography . i 

 II. Illustrations of the Method: The Cedar-Bird; The 

 House Wren; The Redwing Blackbird, and the 

 Kingbird ........ 36 



III. Tent and Camera: The Tools of Bird-Photog- 

 raphy . . . . . . . -56 



IV. The Robin at Arm's Length . . . .72 



V. The Cedar-Bird . . .'".-. . .86 

 VI. Vireos: Awake and Asleep ..... 103 



VII. The Nest-Hole of the Bluebird . . . . 115 



VIII. Minute Observations on Catbirds . . . . 122 



IX. The Rearing of the Night Hawk . . . .129 



X. The Kingfishers and their King Row . . .136 

 XI. Nest-Building '. . . . . .- .- . 146 



XII. Development and Care of the Young . . . 167 

 I. Egg and Chick. 



II. Brooding and Feeding the Young. 

 III. Growth of the Nestling. 

 IV. Cleaning the Nest. 



XIII. Life and Instinct 194 



XIV. Fear in Birds 214 



XV. Taming Wild Birds without a Cage . . .228 

 Index ......... 245 



