BIRDCRAFT
A FIELD BOOK OF TWO HUNDRED SONG
GAME, AND WATER BIRDS
BY
AUTHOR of "THE FRIENDSHIP or NATURE,” “TOMMY ANNE"
“CITIZEN BIRD,” ETC.
WITH EIGHTY FULL-PAGE PLATES BY
LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1903
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1895,
By MACMILLAN AND CO.
Copyright, 1897,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped April, 1895. Reprinted January, 1896. Reprinted, with additions, and new illustrations, October, 1897; June, 1899; December, 1900; April 1903.
Northwood Press
J.S.Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
To I.O.W.
A RECORD OF HAPPY FIELD DAYS
ABOUT HOME
Waldstein, Fairfield, Conn.
- March 1, 1895
“Thus on Earth‘s little ball to the birds you owe all, yet
your gratitude‘s small for the favours they‘ve done.
And their feathers you pill, and you eat them at will, yes,
you plunder and kill the bright birds one by one;
There’s a price on their head, and the Dodo is dead, and
the Moe. has fled from the face of the sun!”
And the birds sang round him, o′er him,
“Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!”
Sang the Opechee, the Robin,
Sang the Bluebird, the Owaissa,
“Do not shoot us, Hiawatha!”
License
This work was published before January 1, 1925, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.