Excerpt from Bird Stories From Burroughs: Sketches of Bird Life Taken From the Works of John Burroughs J ohn burroughs's first book, Wake Robin, contained a chapter entitled The In vitation. It was an invitation to the study of birds. He has reiterated it, implicitly if not ex plicitly, in most of the books he has published since then, and many of his readers have joy fully accepted it. Indeed, such an invitation from Mr. Burroughs is the best possible intro duction to the birds of our Northeastern States, and it is likewise an introduction to some very good reading. To convey this invitation to a wider circle of young readers the most interest ing bird stories in Mr. Burroughs's books have been gathered into a single volume. A chapter is given to each species of bird, and the chapters are arranged in a sort of chronological order, according to the time of the bird's arrival in the spring, the nesting time, or the season when for some other reason the species is particularly con spicuous. In taking the stories out of their orig inal setting a few slight verbal alterations have been necessary here and there, but these have been made either by Mr. Burroughs himself or with his approval. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.