iv Introduction 



Acknowledgments are due the publishers of American 

 Forestry and the Century Magazine for courteous permission 

 to reprint poems taken from those pubhcations. For their 

 help in supplying photographic subjects to illustrate the 

 book, thanks are extended to the persons to whom the 

 various illustrations are accredited in immediate connec- 

 tion with their use in the text. The reproductions in 

 color of two bird subjects have been secured through the 

 friendly cooperation of Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 

 of the National Association of Audubon Societies. 



