Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton W. Burgess

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Preface

Jenny Wren Arrives

The Old Orchard Bully

Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows

Chippy, Sweetvoice and Dotty

Peter Learns Something He Hadn’t Guessed

An Old Friend in a New Home

The Watchman of the Old Orchard

Old Clothes and Old Houses

Longbill and Teeter

Redwing and Yellow Wing

Drummers and Carpenters

Some Unlike Relatives

More of the Blackbird Family

Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark

A Swallow and One Who Isn’t

A Robber in the Old Orchard

More Robbers

Some Homes in the Green Forest

A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black

A Fisherman Robbed

A Fishing Party

Some Feathered Diggers

Some Big Mouths

The Warblers Arrive

Three Cousins Quite Unlike

Peter Gets a Lame Neck

A New Friend and an Old One

Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat

The Constant Singers

Jenny Wren’s Cousins

Voices of the Dusk

Peter Saves a Friend and Learns Something

A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester

Mourner the Dove and Cuckoo

A Butcher and a Hummer

A Stranger and a Dandy

Farewells and Welcomes

Honker and Dippy Arrive

Peter Discovers Two Old Friends

Some Merry Seed-Eaters

Some More Friends Come with the Snow

Peter Learns Something about Spooky

Queer Feet and a Queerer Bill

More Folks in Red

Peter Sees Two Terrible Feathered Hunters