Jack Miner and the Birds, and Some Things I Know about Nature

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CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. Who is Jack Miner?

CHAPTER II. My First Pets.

CHAPTER III. Market Hunting.

CHAPTER IV. Our Faithful Dogs.

CHAPTER V. Bob White Quail.

CHAPTER VI. Raising English or Ring-necked Pheasants in Canada.

CHAPTER VII. The Natural Enemies of Our Birds.

CHAPTER VIII. Some Things I have Known Cannibal Birds to Do.

CHAPTER IX. Weasels, and How to Destroy Them.

CHAPTER X. Robins.

CHAPTER XI. The Bluebirds.

CHAPTER XII. Woodpeckers.

CHAPTER XIII The Swallow Family.

CHAPTER XIV. Wild Duck Hunting.

CHAPTER XV. Knowledge and Ways of the Wild Duck.

CHAPTER XVI. Do Birds Return to Their Same Homes?

CHAPTER XVII. Birds as Missionary Messengers.

CHAPTER XVIII. How Wild Ducks Conceal Their Nests.

CHAPTER XIX. My Last Distinguished Family of Pet Ducks.

CHAPTER XX. Ducks' Love Soon Ceases.

CHAPTER XXI. The Migration of Ducks.

CHAPTER XXII. Can Birds Smell?

CHAPTER XXIII. The Canada Goose.

CHAPTER XXIV. Nesting Canada Geese.

CHAPTER XXV. Our Model Canada Goose.

CHAPTER XXVI. Do Birds Have a Language?

CHAPTER XXVII. The Career of Jack Johnson.

CHAPTER XXVIII. The Migration of Our Canada Geese.

CHAPTER XXIX. Catching and Tagging the Wild Goose.

CHAPTER XXX. Game Protection.

CHAPTER XXXI. Creating a Bird Sanctuary.

CHAPTER XXXII. Our Native Swans.

CHAPTER XXXIII. The Line of Migration.

CHAPTER XXXIV. Inquiries and Answers.

CHAPTER XXXV. Sportsmanship.

CHAPTER XXXVI. Conclusion.

Title: Jack Miner and the Birds

And Some Things I Know about Nature

Author: Jack Miner

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JACK MINER HIMSELF

Photo by his friend Frank Scott Clark, Detroit

Jack Miner and the Birds
AND
SOME THINGS I KNOW ABOUT NATURE

By
JACK MINER
of Kingsville, Ontario, Canada
TORONTO
THE RYERSON PRESS

NOTE—This volume is copyrighted, as noted below. Parties are warned against the unwarranted reproduction of photographs or articles from it. Application for permission for such reproduction should be made to Manly F. Miner, Kingsville, Ontario, Canada.

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BY THE RYERSON PRESS
COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1923
BY JACK MINER

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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