Bird Legend and Life 



BY 

 MARGARET COULSON WALKER 



Author of 

 Birds and Their Nestlings" 



AND 



"Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends" 



Among the Romans not a bird ' 

 Without a prophecy was heard; 

 Fortunes of empires often hung 

 On the magician magpie's tongue.' 



NEW YORK 



THE BAKER & TAYLOR COMPANY 



1908 



