467 pp. 8 3/4 x 6. Pictorial binding. Woodpecker pictured on front cover, cover design looks like tree bark, gilt top page edge, decorative endpapers show rows of owls on branches. Black-and-white photographs. Gene Stratton-Porter, known as both a novelist and a naturalist, combines her talents in this work, linking the world of birds with her knowledge of literature and of the Bible. Many photographs illustrate the text, some of which are paired with appropriate Biblical quotations.
