Birds -- United States; Natural history -- Outdoor books
All obvious punctuation errors have been corrected.
Hyphenation has been normalised.
Pg 22. The word 'wanderdering' was changed to 'wandering.'
Pg 36. The extra 'the' was removed from the following sentence, "It
has the the nightingale's habit of singing in the twilight, as
indeed have all our thrushes."
Pg 56. The word 'intruder' was changed to 'intruders.'
Pg 65. The word 'for' was changed to 'far' in the following sentence,
"He has a for rarer song, which he reserves for some nymph whom he
meets in the air."
Pg 76. The word 'righful' was changed to 'rightful.'
Pg 76. The second occurence of the word 'when' was removed from the
following sentence, "Scarcely have the trees expanded their buds,
when, in the still April mornings, or toward nightfall, when you
hear the hum of his devoted wings."
Pg 91. The sentence, "In the woods are sounds and voices, and a
dumb kind of companionship; one is little more than a walking
tree himself; but come upon these one of mountain-lakes, and the
wildness stands relieved and meets you face to face," has been
changed to "In the woods are sounds and voices, and a dumb kind
of companionship; one is little more than a walking tree
himself; but come upon one of these mountain-lakes, and the
wildness stands relieved and meets you face to face". Pg 104.
Pg 104. The word 'docdor' was changed to 'doctor.'
Pg 108. The words 'over night' were changed to 'over-night.'
Pg 120. The word 'cannnot' was changed to 'cannot.'
Pg 126. The word 'linging' was changed to 'lining.'
Pg 128. A comma has been added to the sentence, "Among the five,
the nest that interested me most was that of the blue grossbeak."
Pg 173. The word 'duke' was changed to 'duck.'
Pg 184. The word 'nighfall' was changed to 'nightfall.'
Pg 192. One occurrence of the word 'the' was removed from the
following sentence, "After looking in vain for the line of
marked trees, we moved off to the the left in a doubtful,
hesitating manner, keeping on the highest ground and blazing the
trees as we went."
Pg 251. The word 'parti-webbed' was retained as it may have been a
word intentionally invented by the author.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Wake-Robin, by John Burroughs
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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