FOREWORDS 



collection is sufficiently representative to show that the wildest and 

 most romantic haunts, as well as the meadow and the woodland, 

 have a fascination attached to them ; and if we only care to lift 

 the thin veil intervening, and look upon Birdland as it is meant 

 to be looked upon that is, without molesting the birds or 

 destroying their eggs we shall see pictures, full of real charm, 

 which will compensate us a thousandfold for any trouble we may 

 have taken to accomplish this end. 



O. G. P. 



November, 1 908. 



