The Burgess Bird Book for Children
by Thornton W. Burgess
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Contents
- Preface
- Expanded Contents
- Chapter I. Jenny Wren Arrives
- Chapter II. The Old Orchard Bully
- Chapter III. Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows
- Chapter IV. Chippy, Sweetvoice, and Dotty
- Chapter V. Peter Learns Something He Hadn't Guessed
- Chapter VI. An Old Friend In a New Home
- Chapter VII. The Watchman of the Old Orchard
- Chapter VIII. Old Clothes and Old Houses
- Chapter IX. Longbill and Teeter
- Chapter X. Redwing and Yellow Wing
- Chapter XI. Drummers and Carpenters
- Chapter XII. Some Unlikely Relatives
- Chapter XIII. More of the Blackbird Family
- Chapter XIV. Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark
- Chapter XV. A Swallow and One Who Isn't
- Chapter XVI. A Robber in the Old Orchard
- Chapter XVII. More Robbers
- Chapter XVIII. Some Homes in the Green Forest
- Chapter XIX. A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black
- Chapter XX. A Fisherman Robbed
- Chapter XXI. A Fishing Party
- Chapter XXII. Some Feathered Diggers
- Chapter XXIII. Some Big Mouths
- Chapter XXIV. The Warblers Arrive
- Chapter XXV. Three Cousins Quite Unlike
- Chapter XXVI. Peter Gets a Lame Neck
- Chapter XXVII. A New Friend and an Old One
- Chapter XXVIII. Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat
- Chapter XXIX. The Constant Singers
- Chapter XXX. Jenny Wren's Cousins
- Chapter XXXI. Voices of the Dusk
- Chapter XXXII. Peter Saves a Friend and Learns Something
- Chapter XXXIII. A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester
- Chapter, XXXIV. Mourner the Dove and Cuckoo
- Chapter XXXV. A Butcher and a Hummer
- Chapter XXXVI. A Stranger and a Dandy
- Chapter XXXVII. Farewells and Welcomes
- Chapter XXXVIII. Honker and Dippy Arrive
- Chapter XXXIX. Peter Discovers Two Old Friends
- Chapter XL. Some Merry Seed-Eaters
- Chapter XLI. More Friends Come With the Snow
- Chapter XLII. Peter Learns Something About Spooky
- Chapter XLIII. Queer Feet and a Queerer Bill
- Chapter XLIV. More Folks in Red
- Chapter XLV. Peter Sees Two Terrible Feathered Hunters