1 8 INTRODUCTION 



as there is generally plenty to see at all hours of the 

 day. 



Year by year as one's field experiences accumulate, 

 the pleasures of bird study deepen. Not only does 

 the acquaintance of one year become the friend of the 

 next, but drawn more to the woods and fields by the 

 delight of our new interest in the birds themselves, 

 all unwittingly we come closer and closer to nature 

 " and connect the landscape with the quiet of the sky." 



FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY. 

 WASHINGTON, D. C, May i, 1902. 



