The Burgess Bird Book for Children

r a very early call. He found Chebec very busy hunting for materials for that nest, because, as he explained to Pete

together yesterday, and now our family is very well

tched his long right ear. He didn't like to admit that he couldn't recall those two c

rapper the Kingbird, as of course you know. The

eclared Peter, his face c

, screaming at the top of their voices. Of course, Peter couldn't be left out of anything like that, and he scampered for the scene of trouble as fast as his l

roated, white-breasted bird, having a black cap and back, and a broad white band across the end

intended that everybody should know it, especially Redtail. It is because of his fearlessness that he is called Kingbird. All the time he was screaming at the top of his lungs, calling Redtail a robber a

here he received the congratulations of all his feathered neighbors. He took them quite modestly, assuring them that he had done nothing, nothing at all, bu

lose enough, he would have found that hidden in it was a patch of orange-red. While Peter sat staring up at him Scrapper suddenly darted out into the air, and his bill snapped in quite the same way Chebec's did when he caug

bees altogethe

w the drones are useless. They do no work at all. It is only by accident that I now and then catch a worker. I eat all kinds of insects that fly and some that don't. I'm one of Farmer Brown's best friends, if he did but know it. You can talk

ne fourth that distance away. But if he couldn't see the fly he could hear the sharp click of Scrapper's bill, and he knew

d in the Old Orchard t

am," declared

him coming and was wise enough to suddenly appear to have no interest wh

g, lipperty-lipperty-lip. Just as he was leaving the far corner of the Old Orchard some one called him. "Peter! Oh, Peter Rabbit!" called the

d Flycatcher. He was a wee bit bigger than Scrapper the Kingbird, yet not quite so big as Welcome Robin, and more slender. His throat and breast were gray, shading into bright yellow underneath. His back and head

ou, Peter," said Cresty, before Peter could find his

ter, who is always gla

. Black Snake, or of any other member of the Snake family, I wish y

t?" stamme

at impatiently. "Now don't forget, Peter. I've got to go house hunting, but you'll find

nny Wren's house. He just couldn't understand about those cast-off suits of the Snake family, and he felt sure that Jenny Wren could tell him.

Jenny Wren!" called Peter again. This time Jenny popped her head out, and her little eyes fairly snapped. "Didn't I tell you the other day, Peter Rabbit, that I'

disturb you," replied Peter meekly. "I wouldn't have thought of

d Jenny Wren. "What is i

ins," rep

ing about, Peter Rabbit? I never have anything to do with Snake ski

lease let him know if I found any cast-off suits of the Snake family? He flew away before I could ask him why he wan

l flattered or provoked. But Peter looked so innocent