Teal--Blue-winged Teal--Redhead--Old Squaw--Hooded Merganser.

CHAPTER XXXI
GULLS AND TERNS AT HOME
Canada Goose--American Herring Gull--Common
Tern--Loon--Pied-billed Grebe.

CHAPTER XXXII
CHORUS BY THE BIRDS

CHAPTER XXXIII
PROCESSION OF BIRD FAMILIES

INDEX




CHAPTER I


OVERTURE BY THE BIRDS

"We would have you to wit, that on eggs though we sit,
And are spiked on the spit, and are baked in a pan;
Birds are older by far than your ancestors are,
And made love and made war, ere the making of man!"

(_Andrew Lang_.)