LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS * 
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I Nuthatch and Chicadee .... Frontispiece 
II Wood and Hermit Thrushes .... 579 
III Kinglets and Brown Creeper .... 590 
IV Black and White Warbler and Redstart . . 597 
V Cedar Waxing and Red-eyed Vireo . . . 604 
VI Tree Sparrow and Snowflake .... 619 
VII Kingbird and Piicebe ..... 639 
VIII Whip-poor-will and Night hawk .... 641 
IX Pileated Woodpecker and Downy Woodpecker . 648 
X Black-billed Cuckoo and Sapsucker . . . 649 
XI Screech Owls in both Red and Gray Plumage . . 656 
XII Red-Tailed Hawk and Cooper’s Hawk . . . 659 
XIII Bob- White in Potato Field .... 662 
* Twelve of the above plates are reduced copies of the illustrations 
in color made by Louis Agassiz Fuertes for Frank M. Chapman’s report 
on The Economic Value of Birds to the State, issued by the Forest, 
Fish, and Game Commission of the State of New York in 1903. The 
thirteenth plate, by the same artist, is copied from The Year Book of 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture for 1903. 
CONTENTS 
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A Word to Teachers ...... 540 
I The Bird ....... 542 
II The Bird Year and the Migrations . . . 543 
III The Fall Migration ..... 546 
IV The Spring Migration ..... 547 
V The Nest ....... 548 
VI The Moulting ...... 550 
VII The Uses of Birds ...... 552 
VIII Bird Laws Condensed ..... 553 
IX How we can protect the Birds .... 555 
X Birds of Autumn ...... 560 
XI Winter Birds in Connecticut .... 563 
XII Birds in Spring ...... 565 
XIII Key to the Birds ...... 568 
XIV Bird Biographies ...... 579 
XV Index ........ 679 
A number of poems and other quotations in this pamphlet are taken 
from Bird-Lore, a magazine of popular ornithology and the official 
organ of the Audubon Societies, and these are republished through the 
^courtesy of its editor, Mr. F. M. Chapman. 
