FOREWORD 



Ellen Drummond Farwell loved birds 

 for many reasons, but especially because 

 they seemed to her the spiritual in nature. 



To her their songs expressed the spon- 

 taneous joy and gladness of a life, seem- 

 ingly higher and freer in some respects 

 than our own. 



During the last years of her life, as her 

 duties and pleasures became more and 

 more restricted, she spent some of her 

 happiest moments observing the birds on 

 our place and in the neighborhood. Once 

 in the South and once abroad she made 

 notes of what she saw. 



As Mr. Henry Oldys and some other 

 trained observers, in reading these notes, 

 felt that quite a number of bird lovers, old. 

 and young, would enjoy comparing their 

 notes with these, and that in so doing some 

 little additional knowledge might be re- 

 corded, I decided at their suggestion to 

 print a small edition for personal friends 

 and a few others who might enjoy having 

 them. 



John V. Farwell. 

 Ardleigh, January 20, ioig. 



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