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of these kinds, their habits and history. No fairy-tale can equal this story 

 of Nature. 



It has been the joy of very many people to go out and study nature each 

 spring, particularly when life is at its height. Bird-lovers keep lists of the 

 different kinds of birds which they see, and welcome each new arrival as a 

 returning friend. Plant-lovers hunt for the first violet, and the pure white 

 bloodroot, lingering long in favored nooks and dells to discover shy blossoms. 

 Insect-lovers need do no more than search here and there, wherever they 

 may happen to be, to find all kinds of treasures. The impossibility of ever 

 becoming acquainted with all the different kinds of insects only adds to the 

 charm of the study. 



The following list of birds seen by a boy fifteen years old, during a single 

 year, in the neighborhood of his home, shows the variety of feathered life 

 which may be found in a very limited area, provided the observer is a real 

 nature-lover who knows the haunts of wild creatures and how and where to 

 look. 



[Note. — The following list was seen during 191 2 by Charles O. Handley, at Lewis- 

 burg, W. Va., in a country 2,100 feet above sea-level. This boy kept a lunch-counter 

 for birds in winter, and put up nesting-boxes for them at the proper time.] 



Lesser Scaup Duck 

 Least Bittern 

 Sandhill Crane 

 Wilson Snipe 

 Greater Yellow-Legs 

 Lesser Yellow-Legs 

 Solitary Sandpiper 

 Bartramian Sandpiper 

 Spotted Sandpiper 

 Killdeer 

 Bob-white 

 Ruffed Grouse 

 Mourning Dove 

 Turkey Vulture 

 Marsh Hawk 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk 

 Cooper's Hawk 

 Red-tailed Hawk 

 Bald Eagle 

 Sparrow Hawk 

 American Osprey 

 Screech Owl 

 Great Horned Owl 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 

 Black-billed Cuckoo 

 Belted Kingfisher 

 Hairy Woodpecker 

 Downy Woodpecker 



Yellow-bellied Sapsuckcr 

 Pileated Woodpecker 

 Red-headed Woodpecker 

 Flicker 

 Nighthawk 

 Chimney Swift 

 Ruby-throated Humming- 

 bird 

 Kingbird 



Crested Flycatcher 

 Phoebe 

 Wood Pewee 

 Red-bellied Woodpecker 

 Least Flycatcher 

 Prairie Horned Lark 

 Blue Jay 

 Crow 

 Bobolink 

 Cowbird 



Red-winged Blackbird 

 Meadowlark 

 Orchard Oriole 

 Baltimore Oriole 

 Rusty Blackbird 

 Purple Grackle 

 Goldfinch 

 English Sparrow 

 Vesper Sparrow 



Savannah Sparrow 

 Grasshopper Sparrow 

 White-crowned Sparrow 

 White-throated Sparrow 

 Tree Sparrow 

 Chipping Sparrow 

 Field Sparrow 

 Slate-colored Junco 

 Song Sparrow 

 Swamp Sparrow 

 Fox Sparrow 

 Towhee 

 Cardinal 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak 

 Indigo Bunting 

 Scarlet Tanager 

 Purple Martin 

 Cliff Swallow 

 Barn Swallow 

 Cedar Waxwing 

 Red-eyed Vireo 

 Yellow-throated Vireo 

 Blue-headed Vireo 

 Black and White Warbler 

 Worm-eating Warbler 

 Golden-winged Warbler 

 Nashville Warbler 

 Tennessee Warbler 



