BIRD STORIES
Chick, D.D. in his pulpit.LITTLE GATEWAYS TO SCIENCE
BIRD STORIES
BY EDITH M. PATCH
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ROBERT J. SIM
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1926
Copyright, 1921, by
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
First Impression, May, 1921
Second Impression, May, 1922
Third Impression, March, 1926
The Atlantic Monthly Press Publications
are published by
Little, Brown, and Company
in association with
The Atlantic Monthly Company
Printed in the United States of America
TO
JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASSES
AND TO
ALL OTHER BOYS AND GIRLS THROUGHOUT THE
LAND WHO ARE FRIENDLY TO BIRDS
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
For help in planning this book, for sharing his bird-notes with thewriter, and for a critical reading of the manuscript, acknowledgmentshould be made to Mr. Robert J. Sim. Certain events in the lives of Eveand Petro and little Solomon Otus are told with reference to hisobservations of eave-swallows and screech owls; his trip to an islandoff the Maine coast for gull-sketches added greatly to an acquaintancewith Larie; and but for his six-weeks' visit with the loons of "ImmerLake," much of the story of Gavia could not have been told. Since Mr.Sim contributed not only the pictures to the book, but many items ofinterest to the narrative, it gives the writer pleasure to acknowledgehis coöperation, both as artist and as field-naturalist.
Edith M. Patch
CONTENTS
I. Chick, D.D. 1
II. The Five Worlds of Larie 18
III. Peter Piper 33
IV. Gavia of Immer Lake 49
V. Eve and Petro 66
VI. Uncle Sam 86
VII. Corbie 100
VIII. Ardea's Soldier 121
IX. The Flying Clown 133
X. The Lost Dove 150
XI. Little Solomon Otus 163