. The first book of birds; . A SKETCH BOOK. $ WORLD OF GREEN HILLS. $ HENRY D. MINOT THE LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS OF NEWENGLAND. 8vo, $ MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY BIRD-TALK. A Calendar in Verse of the Orchard andWild wood. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $ HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., East 17th Street, New COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY H. M. MILLERALL RIGHTS RESERVED PREFACE This book is intended to interest young peo-ple in the ways and habits of birds, and to stim-ulate them to further study. It has grown outof my experience in talking to schools. Fromthe youngest kindergarten sc
. The first book of birds; . A SKETCH BOOK. $ WORLD OF GREEN HILLS. $ HENRY D. MINOT THE LAND-BIRDS AND GAME-BIRDS OF NEWENGLAND. 8vo, $ MRS. A. D. T. WHITNEY BIRD-TALK. A Calendar in Verse of the Orchard andWild wood. Illustrated. Crown 8vo, $ HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., East 17th Street, New COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY H. M. MILLERALL RIGHTS RESERVED PREFACE This book is intended to interest young peo-ple in the ways and habits of birds, and to stim-ulate them to further study. It has grown outof my experience in talking to schools. Fromthe youngest kindergarten scholar to boys andgirls of sixteen and eighteen, I have never failedto find young people intensely interested so longas I would tell them about how the birds hve. Some of the results of these talks that havecome to my knowledge have been astonishingand far-reaching, such as that of one boy ofseven or eight, who persuaded the village boysaround his summer home to give up taking eggsand killing birds, and watch them instead, andwho was dubbed Professor by his eager fol-lowers. The effect has always been to makechildren love and respect the living bird. It has therefore seemed to me that what isneeded at first is not the science of ornithology, iv PREFACE — however diluted, — but some account of thelife and habits, to a
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