Author of "Birddom," "In Bird Land,"
and "Birds of the Rockies," etc.
[Frontispiece: American Sparrow-hawk]
Rand, McNally & Company
Chicago New York London
Copyright, 1907
by Rand, McNally & Co.
The Rand-McNally Press
Chicago
_To
ALL WHO LOVE THE BIRDS FOR THEIR
OWN SAKES,
who desire to cultivate comradeship with them in books
and in the field, and who will study them
with the glass and without the gun._