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This edition features  • illustrations  • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes,and Index   CONTENTS PREFACE           I.       FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE BIRDS Caution in Nest Hunting — Going Afield — Notebooks — Reporting Blanks — Bird Books — Movements of Birds — Artificial Cover in Hiding — The Umbrella Blind — Conclusion.     II.       THE LIFE ABOUT THE NEST Nest Hunting — Behaviour when Nest Is Discovered — Lessons to Be Learned — Character of Material Used — Nests in Holes — Variety of Locations — Variation in Families — Meagre Nests.     III.       DOMESTIC LIFE OF THE BIRDS Parental Care of Young — Sharing the Labours — Length of Mated Life — A Much-married Bluebird — The Faithful Canada Geese — Unmated Birds — Polygamy Among Birds — The Outcast.     IV.       THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS Moulting — Why Birds Migrate — The Gathering Flocks — The Usual Movement — The Travelling Shore Birds — The World's Migrating Champion — Perils of Migration — Keeping Migration Records.     V.       THE BIRDS IN WINTER A Good Time for Field Walks — The Downy's Winter Quarters — Birds and the Night — The Food Question in Winter — When the Food Supply Fails — Wild Fowl Destroyed in the Oil Fields — Hunting Winter Birds.     VI.       THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF BIRDS A Government Report — Plagues of Insects — Some Useful Birds — The Question of the Weed Seeds — Dealing with the Rodent Pests — The Terror That Flies by Night — A Seldom Recognised Blessing.     VII.       CIVILIZATION'S EFFECT ON THE BIRD SUPPLY Number of Birds in the World — Number in the Different States — Increase of Farm-land Species — Effect of Forest Devastation — Commercializing Birds — Wild Pigeon — Ivory-billed Woodpecker — Labrador Duck — Great Auk — Eskimo Curlew.     VIII.       THE TRAFFIC IN FEATHERS War on the Sea Swallows — What the Ladies Wore — The Story of the Egrets — Amateur Feather Hunters — Maribou — Pheasants — Numidie — Goura — Women's Love for Feathers — Ostrich Feathers Are Desirable.     IX.       BIRD-PROTECTIVE LAWS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT . . . HOW LAWS ARE MADE Definition of Game — Audubon Laws — Game Law Enforcement — Lacy Lava — Federal Migratory Bird Law — History of Game Laws — The Theory of Shiras — Work of the Bird Committee — Government Explanations — World's Only Bird Treaty.     X.       BIRD RESERVATIONS First Federal Bird Reservation — Congressional Sanction — Florida Reservations — Distant Reservations — President Taft a Bird Protectionist — Audubon Society Reservations — The Corkscrew Rookery — Wardens Shot by Plume Hunters.     XI.       MAKING BIRD SANCTUARIES Natural Nesting Places Destroyed — Nesting Boxes for Birds — Some Rules for Making and Erecting Bird Boxes — Sites of Bird Boxes — Feeding Birds — Community Sanctuaries — Birdcraft Sanctuary — Cemeteries as Bird Sanctuaries — A Birdless Cemetery — Birds of a New York Graveyard — Enemies to Be Eliminated — Berries and Fruit for Birds.     XII.       TEACHING BIRD STUDY Teaching Children — Junior Audubon Societies — Correlated Studies — Keeping Scrapbooks — Records of Migrants — Essays — Sending Old Nests to City Children — Audubon Prizes — Bird Day. About the Author T. Gilbert Pearson Secretary, National Association of Audubon Societies