Homing With the Bird

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Excerpt from Homing With the Bird: The History of a Lifetime of Personal Experience With the Birds IN the fall of 1916, while visiting at the home of Mr. F. N. Doubleday, a member of the house which publishes most Of my books, in conversation with my very dear friend Mrs. N eltje De Graft Double day, the author of a number of invaluable books on birds and ¿owers, She began to question me about unusual experiences I encountered afield. I told her some of the things here recorded, the queerest and most peculiar things that I had seen during a lifetime Of personal contact with the birds. In the course of that intimate conversation, Mrs. Doubleday conceived and planned this book, feel ing - I hope not mistakenly - that these intimate personal experiences with birds, which so in tensely interested her, would not fail to be of equal interest to other bird lovers and protectors. She felt that these records faithfully and simply set down would add very largely to the sum of human achievement in a scientific estimate of the habits and characteristics of birds.' So, I have written for any one who is interested, these sketches of personal experience, as I outlined them to such a. 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.