Birds and their Nests. 



INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



The birds in these pictures of ours have all nests, which is as 

 it should be ; for how could the bird rear its young without its 

 little home and soft little bed, any more than children could be 

 comfortably brought up without either a bed to lie upon, or a 

 home in which to be happy. 



Birds-nests, though you may find them in every bush, are 



