Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Tales About Birds, Illustrative of Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts

Uncle Thomas had scarcely finished his last series of Tales, when he was gratified by a visit from the Mama of his young auditors, to introduce her two little Girls, who, having heard their Brothers speak so much of the delightful Stories which he told them, had prevailed on h...

Chapters

16. CHAPTER VIII.

“To-night,” said Uncle Thomas, on the following evening, “I am going to tell you about a family of Birds, which, from the splendour of their plumage, and the ease with which the...

12. CHAPTER IV.

“What is the name of this Eagle?” said Mary, on a subsequent evening, pointing to one of the specimens in Uncle Thomas’s Museum. “It seems to be much smaller than either of thos...

15. CHAPTER VII.

“Good evening, Uncle Thomas!” said half-a-dozen little voices at once, as the party burst into the room. They had been romping as they came along the pleasant green lane leading...

10. CHAPTER II.

“The Osprey, or Sea-Eagle, which I mentioned to you when I last had the pleasure of seeing you,” said Uncle Thomas to his young hearers on a subsequent evening, when they had on...

9. CHAPTER I.

Uncle Thomas had scarcely finished his last series of Tales, when he was gratified by a visit from the Mama of his young auditors, to introduce her two little Girls, who, having...

13. CHAPTER V.

“The Owls,” said Uncle Thomas, on their next meeting, “are perhaps one of the most interesting families of Birds of Prey. They are, with one or two exceptions, night birds; that...

14. CHAPTER VI.

“Good Evening, Uncle Thomas! Good Evening!” said each of the little circle, as on the following evening they drew their chairs around him, to listen to the Stories which he had...

11. CHAPTER III.

So interested had Mary and Jane become in Uncle Thomas’s Stories that long ere the time for setting out on the following evening they were in readiness. Mary, indeed, wished to...

7. CHAPTER VII.

3. CHAPTER III.

5. CHAPTER V.

6. CHAPTER VI.

8. CHAPTER VIII.

4. CHAPTER IV.

1. CHAPTER I.

2. CHAPTER II.