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Title: Little Brothers of the Air

Author: Olive Thorne Miller

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Language: English

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HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

LITTLE BROTHERS OF
THE AIR

BY

OLIVE THORNE MILLER

[Illustration]

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.

PAGE

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

Thrasher. _Harporhynchus rufus._

White-bellied Swallow. _Tachycineta bicolor._

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