PAGE Mocking-bird 2 The Young Mocking-bird that lost its Tail in the Door 4 Crow Blackbird 11 Turkey Buzzard 15 Mountain Quail 20 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 28 Short-eared Owl 24 Nest full of Young Birds 27 Linnet 30 Humming-bird feeding her Young 35 Blue Jay 38 Downy Woodpecker 42 Chimney Swift 46 Arkansas Goldfinch 47 King-bird 51 Loggerhead Shrike 53 English Sparrow 55 Brown Towhee 58 Song Sparrow 64 Baltimore Oriole 75 Ground Owl 77 Screech Owl 79 Barn Swallow 87 Marsh Owl 88 Costa's Humming-bird 89 Cat-bird 94 Brown Thrush 95 Anna's Humming-birds 105 Robin 108 Western Bluebird 117 Whip-poor-will 121 Phœbe 121 Flicker 127 California Bush-tit and Nest 132 Meadow Lark 135 Wax-wing 139 Snowy Heron 143 OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS. [Illustration] CHAPTER I. THE MESSAGE OF A MOCKING-BIRD. It was in the year 1877, before any of the children who read this book were born. We were living on one of the great reservations in the Indian Territory. Some one knocked at the door. When the door was opened, there stood a little Indian girl, her head all covered up in a bright shawl. She was shy, as Indian girls were before they had seen many white people. Very timidly she drew her hand from under her shawl and gave to us a baby mocking-bird. Then she turned and ran down the prairie toward her buffalo-skin lodge not far away.