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By Olive Thorne Miller.

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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

LITTLE BROTHERS OF THE AIR

OLIVE THORNE MILLER

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1893

Copyright, 1892, BY H.M. MILLER.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton & Company.

INTRODUCTORY.

Some of the chapters of this little book were written in 1888, on the shore of the Great South Bay, Long Island; others in the northern part of New York State, known to its residents as the "Black River Country," a year or two later. Part of them have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, The Independent and other papers.

The nomenclature in the Table of Contents is that adopted by the American Ornithological Society.

OLIVE THORNE MILLER.

CONTENTS.

ON THE GREAT SOUTH BAY.

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I. THE KINGBIRD'S NEST 1

Kingbird. Tyrannus tyrannus.

II. A CHRONICLE OF THREE LITTLE KINGS 19

Kingbird. Tyrannus tyrannus.

III. THE BABES IN THE WOOD 34

Flicker. Colaptes auratus.

IV. HOME LIFE OF THE REDSTART 48

American Redstart. Setophaga ruticilla.

V. WHEN NESTING IS OVER 61