CONTENTS. xv 



page 



Tussle with a Constrictor Charles Waterton. 152 



Chameleons ; their Habits and Color-Changes Science Monthly. 157 



The Chameleon. . . Mo-rick. 162 



PART VIII. 



OUR FOREST CHORISTERS. 



Songsters of the Garden James Russell Lowell. 1 64 



The Song of Birds J. Elliot Cabot. 172 



Life and Song in the Woods John Burroughs. 177 



Bird Life and Motion Atlantic Monthly. 183 



Birds in Autumn Atlantic Monthly. 188 



Robert of Lincoln Bryant. 190 



The Mocking-Bird Alexander Wilson. 194 



The Persevering Songster Boston Traveler, 1851. 199 



Bird-Notes White's Selborne. 2(il 



Ode to the Sky-lark Shelley. 204 



PART IX. 



OTHER NEIGHBORS IN THE TREES. 



Homes in the Woods John Burroughs. 207 



Humming-Birds James II. Partridge. 211 



My Aerial Visitor Atlantic Monthly. 215 



Rare and Beautiful Nests John Burroughs. 218 



Bird- Ways Atlantic Monthly. 220 



The Bank-Swallow Ernest Ingcrsoll. 225 



Jays and their Mission Jared P. Kirtland. 229 



Summary Justice Chambers' 's Journal. 2S3 



The Bird of Night .Rev. Samuel Lockwood. 236 



The Owl-Critic James T. Fields. 240 



PART X. 

 STRANGE BIRDS AND THEIR WA TS. 



The Flamingo 244 



Birds-of- Paradise Times II Partridge. 247 



Talking Birds and their Ways N. S. Dodge. 252 



The Apteryx 257 



