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Chapter 1 Overture by the Birds
Chapter 2 The Doctor's Wonder Room
Chapter 3 A Sparrow Settles the Question
Chapter 4 The Building of a Bird
Chapter 5 Citizen Bird
Chapter 6 The Bird as a Traveller
Chapter 7 The Bird's Nest
Chapter 8 Beginning of the Bird Stories
Chapter 9 A Silver-Tongued Family
Bluebird—Robin— Wood Thrush—Wilson’s
Thrush—Hermit Thrush—Olive-backed Thrush.
Chapter 10 Peepers and Creepers
Golden-crowned Kinglet—White-breasted
Nuthatch—Chickadee—Brown Creeper.
Chapter 11 Mockers and Scolders
Sage Thrasher—Mockingbird—Catbird—Brown Thrasher—
Rock Wren—House Wren—Long-billed Marsh Wren.
Chapter 12 Woodland Warblers
Black-and-white Warbler—Yellow Warbler—
Yellow-rumped Warbler—Ovenbird—Maryland
Yellow-throat—Yellow-breasted Chat—American Redstart.
Chapter 13 Around the Old Barn
Red-eyed Vireo—Great Northern Shrike—
Cedar Waxwing.
Chapter 14 The Swallows
Purple Martin—Barn Swallow—Tree Swallow—
Bank Swallow.
Chapter 15 A Brilliant Pair
Scarlet Tanager—Louisiana Tanager.
Chapter 16 A Tribe of Weed Warriors
Pine Grosbeak—American Crossbill—American
Goldfinch—Snowflake—Vesper Sparrow—White-
throated Sparrow—Chipping Sparrow—Slate-colored
Junco—Song Sparrow—Towhee—Cardinal—
Rose-breasted Grosbeak—Indigo Bird.
Chapter 17 A Midsummer Excursion
Bobolink—Orchard Oriole—Baltimore Oriole—
Cowbird—Red-winged Blackbird—Purple
Grackle—Meadowlark.
Chapter 18 Crows and Their Cousins
American Crow—Blue Jay.
Chapter 19 A Feathered Fisherman
The Osprey.
Chapter 20 Some Sky Sweepers
Kingbird—Phoebe—Wood Pewee.
Chapter 21 Hummers and Chimney Sweeps
Ruby-throated Hummingbird—Chimney Swift.
Chapter 22 Two Winged Mysteries
Nighthawk—Whip-poor-will.
Chapter 23 A Laughing Family
Downy Woodpecker—Red-headed Woodpecker—
Flicker—Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
Chapter 24 Two Odd Fellows
Kingfisher—Yellow-billed Cuckoo.
Chapter 25 Cannibals in Court
Bald Eagle—Golden Eagle—Screech Owl—
Long-eared Owl—Snowy Owl—Great Horned
Owl—Marsh Hawk—Sharp-shinned Hawk—
Red-shouldered Hawk—Sparrow Hawk.
Chapter 26 A Cooing Pair
Passenger Pigeon—Mourning Dove.
Chapter 27 Three Famous Game Birds
Bob White—Ruffed Grouse—Woodcock.
Chapter 28 On the Shore
A Long-necked Family: Black-crowned Night
Heron—American Bittern—A Bonnet Martyr
and a Blue Giant—Snowy Egret—Great Blue Heron.
Chapter 29 Up the River
Turnstone—Golden Plover—Wilson’s Snipe—
Spotted Sandpiper—Least Sandpiper—Virginia Rail.
Chapter 30 Ducks and Drakes
Wood Duck—Black Duck—Mallard—Pintail—
Green-winged Teal—Blue-winged Teal—
Redhead—Old Squaw—Hooded Merganser.
Chapter 31 Gulls and Terns at Home
Canada Goose—American Herring Gull—
Common Tern—Loon—Pied-billed Grebe.
Chapter 32 Chorus by the Birds
Chapter 33 Procession of Bird Families
Index of English Names
APPENDIX 1
Supplementary Material on Citizen Bird
APPENDIX 2
Historical Materials on Nineteenth-Century Birding and Audubon
APPENDIX 3
Other Works of Nineteenth-Century Nature Writing and Children’s Literature
APPENDIX 4
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Index
