ILLUSTRATIONS AND 

 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



THE full page half-tone illustrations in this book were made by 

 the various photographic artists whose names appear in the list below. 

 The line drawings were mostly made direct from nature ; a few from 

 photographs. A large number of them were done by the author of 

 "Familiar Trees and their Leaves" and other charming nature books, 

 Mr. F. Schuyler Mathews, whose characteristic monogram accompanies 

 his drawings. I am also indebted to Mr. Mathews for a delightful 

 first-hand account of the hermit thrush, which I have adapted from one 

 of his letters, The other line drawings were made by Mrs. Marie 

 Robertson Duggar, Mr. C. W. Furlong, Mr. W. C. Baker, Mr. 

 E. N. Fischer, and others. The chickadee picture was drawn by 

 Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Some of the photographs from which 

 drawings were made, were furnished by Professor G. F. Atkinson, 

 Professor F. A. Waugh, Miss Martha W. Buehler, and Professor M. V. 

 Slingerland. 



Two chapters, "A Winter Walk" and "A Home in a Willow Tree," 

 have been adapted from articles which appeared in The New England 

 Journal of Education. "Sister Ellen's Fish Story" was written for this 

 book by my sister, Miss Julia Ellen Rogers, and also appears in the May 

 number of Country Life in America. The quotation from Frank Demps- 

 ter Sherman's Lyrics for a Lute is reprinted by permission of Houghton, 

 Mifflin & Company; the stanza from James Whitcomb Riley's"Song of 

 a Brook" is quoted by permission of the Bowen - Merrill Company. 

 Professor L. H. Bailey and Mr. H. W. Lanier have given the kindest 

 assistance in many ways. Mr. F. D. Stickney has my warmest thanks 

 for the proof-reading, and Mr. J. Horace McFarland for advice and 

 suggestions. 



M. R. M. 



ITHACA, N. Y., April 21, 1902. 



(xiii) 



