4 Bird-Nesting 



crows, and woodpeckers, while in the bushes may be found 

 numerous nests of bronzed grackles, kingbirds, great grey 

 shrike, vireos, thrushes and warblers. Out on the dry open 

 prairie on the ground may be found the nests of shore larks, 

 chestnut-collared and McCown's longspur, bay-winged buntings, 

 Sprague's pipit, marsh harrier, Kildeer and Bartram's sand- 

 piper. 



This book has been written for the special benefit of young 

 Oologists, and I have tried to make it both interesting and in- 

 structive, but I hope the more advanced Ornithologists, as 

 well as sporstmen, will find something in the following pages 

 to interest them. 



To those who know nothing of the pleasure and excitement 

 of bird-nesting, or the healthful fascinating pursuit of collect- 

 ing specimens in any branch of natural history, this book may 

 seem to be nothing but prattle, but such persons are to be 

 pitied by the naturalist, for the uninitiated know nothing of 

 the pure solid pleasure to be derived from these pursuits, and 

 to them the beauty of summer is robbed of half its glory. 



SUMMER TIME. 



the sunny summer time ! 



the leafy summer time ! 



Merry is the bird's life 



When the year is in its prime, 



Birds are by the waterfall, 



Dashing in the rainbow's spray ; 



Everywhere bright and lovely there are they. 



Birds are in the forest old, 



Singing in each hoary tree ; 



Birds are in the green fields, 



Birds are by the sea. 



