Stories of Birds

Cover Art

\[Frontispiece: "He came quite close and stared at the little girl" (missing from book)\]

By - Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

PREFACE

The Chickadee In the Snow Twenty Little Chickadees The Snowbird's Song How the Birds Got Their Feathers Chilly Little Chickadees All About the Chickadee - Robin Redbreast Merry Robin Redbreast The Robin's Red Breast Which Was the Wiser? All About the Robin - The Swallow Under the Eaves The Swallows All About the Barn Swallow - The Hawk and the Raven From the Barnyard Fence The First Hawk Origin of the Raven and the Macaw All About the Chicken-Hawk All About the Raven - The Kingfisher With the Water Watchman The Halcyon Birds All About the Kingfisher - The Red-Headed Woodpecker In Cap of Red A Legend of the Northland All About the Woodpecker - The Lark In the Meadow The Song of the Merry Lark Saved by a Lark All About the Meadow Lark - The Owl A Good-Night The Owl (Tennyson) The Owl Girl The Owl and the Raven The Owl (Shakespeare) All About the Barred or Hoot Owl - The Bobolink A Summer Song Robert of Lincoln All About the Bobolink or Rice-Bird - The Sea-Doves and the Great Blue Heron Beside the Sea Sea-Pigeons The Sandpiper The Circling of Cranes All About the Great Blue Heron or Blue Crane All About the Sea-Dove

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE CHICKADEE OR SNOWBIRD

ROBIN REDBREAST - MERRY ROBIN REDBREAST

THE SWALLOW

THE HAWK AND THE RAVEN