[Illustration: _Mr. Stork and Miss Heron (page 178)_]




The Curious Book of Birds

By Abbie Farwell Brown

_With Illustrations_

_By E. Boyd Smith_


BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1903




_Published October, 1903._




_There are many books written nowadays which will tell you about birds
as folk of the twentieth century see them. They describe carefully the
singer's house, his habits, the number of his little wife's eggs, and