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Migrate--The Gathering Flocks--The Usual
Movement--The Travelling Shore Birds--The World's Migrating
Champion--Perils of Migration--Keeping Migration Records.
V. THE BIRDS IN WINTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
A Good Time for Field Walks--The Downy's Winter Quarters--Birds
and the Night--The Food Question in Winter--When the Food Supply
Fails--Wild Fowl Destroyed in the Oil Fields--Hunting Winter Birds.
VI. THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF BIRDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
A Government Report--Plagues of Insects--Some Useful Birds--The
Question of the Weed Seeds--Dealing with the Rodent Pests--The
Terror That Flies by Night--A Seldom Recognised Blessing.
VII. CIVILIZATION'S EFFECT ON THE BIRD SUPPLY . . . . . . .
120
Number of Birds in the World--Number in the Different
States--Increase of Farm-land Species--Effect of Forest
Devastation--Commercializing Birds--Wild Pigeon--Ivory-billed
Woodpecker--Labrador Duck--Great Auk--Eskimo Curlew.
VIII. THE TRAFFIC IN FEATHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
War on the Sea Swallows--What the Ladies Wore--The Story of the
Egrets--Amateur Feather
Hunters--Maribou--Pheasants--Numidie--Goura--Women's Love for
Feathers--Ostrich Feathers Are Desirable.
IX. BIRD-PROTECTIVE LAWS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT . . .
HOW LAWS ARE MADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Definition of Game--Audubon Laws--Game Law Enforcement--Lacy
Lava--Federal Migratory Bird Law--History of Game Laws--The
Theory of Shiras--Work of the Bird Committee--Government
Explanations--World's Only Bird Treaty.
X. BIRD RESERVATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
First Federal Bird Reservation--Congressional Sanction--Florida
Reservations--Distant Reservations--President Taft a Bird
Protectionist--Audubon Society Reservations--The Corkscrew
Rookery--Wardens Shot by Plume Hunters.
XI. MAKING BIRD SANCTUARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Natural Nesting Places Destroyed--Nesting Boxes for Birds--Some
Rules for Making and Erecting Bird Boxes--Sites of Bird
Boxes--Feeding Birds--Community Sanctuaries--Birdcraft
Sanctuary--Cemeteries as Bird Sanctuaries--A Birdless
Cemetery--Birds of a New York Graveyard--Enemies to Be
Eliminated--Berries and Fruit for Birds.
XII. TEACHING BIRD STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Teaching Children--Junior Audubon Societies--Correlated
Studies--Keeping Scrapbooks--Records of Migrants--Essays--Sending
Old Nests to City Children--Audubon Prizes--Bird Day.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Wood Thrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece in color
HALF-TONE CUTS
Facing Page

A ferocious young Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Gannets nesting on the cliffs of Bonaventure Island, Gulf of St.
Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
A male Plumbeous Gnatcatcher feeding young . . . . . . . . . . 38
A mountain Bluebird family whose home has been
destroyed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Young Robins quarreling at their bath . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Feeding station for birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Snowy Egret shot on its feeding grounds . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Farallone Cormorants and White Pelicans on a Government Bird
Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Window "Cafeteria" at home of Mrs. Granville Pike . . . . . . 128
A Christmas dinner for the birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
An Egret, bearing "aigrettes," in attendance on her
young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Egret brooding on a Florida island owned and guarded by the Audubon
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
The Downy Woodpecker is fond of suet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Members of a Junior Audubon class at Fergus Falls,
Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
A California Hospital for injured birds . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Preparing for the coming of the birds . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
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