Camera Studies of Wild Birds in Their Homes

Two hundred photographs of living wild birds, made when bird photography was new and hard — Chester Reed in the blind, the marsh and the treetop, telling how each picture was got.

The Gleaners

2 pages in this part of Camera Studies with Wild Birds.

The Gleaners (Bush-Tit illustrations)

Bush-Tit (2 illustrations) Golden-winged Warbler Black-and-White Warbler (7 illustrations) Chest.-sided Warbler (6 illustrations).

The Gleaners (Birds are the natural)

Birds are the natural conservators of our trees. One of their chief offices is the destruction of insects whose ravages destroy the foliage…

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