John Burroughs

Wake-Robin John Burroughs

This is mainly a book about the birds, or more properly an invitation to the study of Ornithology, and the purpose of the author will be carried out in proportion as it awakens and stimulates the interest of the reader in this branch of natural history.

Through written less in the spirit of exact science than with the freedom of love and old acquaintance, the author has in no instance taken liberties with facts, or allowed his imagination to influence him to the extent of giving a false impression or a wrong coloring.

What the author is offering is a careful and conscientious record of actual observations and experiences, and is true as it stands written, every word of it.