page_title: Harriet Mann Miller
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Harriet Mann Miller / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: Scarlet Tanager Identifier: firstbookofbirds00mill (find matches) Title: The first book of birds; Year: 1899 (1890s) Authors: Miller, Harriet Mann, 1831-1918 Subjects: Birds Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: HIS KINDNESS TO OTHERS 75 what birds live in a place, he can bring them allaround him by making a sound like a youngbird in distress. All who hear it will come tosee what is the matter. Let me tell you a story of some young swal-lows. They were able to fly a little, and weresitting together on a roof, when a lady whowas watchinof them noticed that one of themseemed to be weak, and not able to stand up. When the parents came with food, the othersstood up and opened their mouths, and so werefed, but this little one hardly ever got a morsel. If birds had no love for each other, as manypeople think, these strong little ones would nothave cared if their brother did starve; but whatdid the lady see&#160;? She says that two of thestrong young swallows came close up to theirweak brother, one on each side. They put theirbeaks under his breast and lifted him up on tohis legs, and then crowded so close against himthat their little bodies propped him up, and heldhim there; so that he had his chance of Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Harriet Mann Miller was an American author, naturalist, and ornithologist.
  She wrote stories for leading magazines, and in her later years, devoted herself to the study of birds. Her first articles appeared under the pen-name “Olive Thorne” before writing under the signature of “Olive Thorne Miller”. Her books include: Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, Queer Pets at Marcy’s, Little People of Asia, Birds’ Ways, In Nesting Time, and also a serial story entitled, "Nimpo’s Troubles", published in the St. Nicholas Magazine, in 1874.
context_section_description: Sick and in Prison (1873)
  Nimpo's Troubles (1880)
  The Bird of Solitude (1884)
  A Bit of Bird-life (1885)
  A Ruffian in Feathers (1885)
  Queer Pets and their Doings (1885)
  Flutterbudget (1887)
  The Woman's Club: a Practical Guide and Hand-book (1891)
  Kristy's Surprise Party (1905)
  Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic (1906)
  What Happened to Barbara (1907)
  The Children's Book of Birds (1915)
  As Olive Thorne
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1875). Little Folks in Feathers and Fur, and Others in Neither. Hartford, CT: Dustin, Gilman & Co.
  As Olive Thorne Miller
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1880). Queer Pets at Marcy's. New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.59904.   Illustrated by J. C. Beard.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1885). Bird-ways. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.33006.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1888). In Nesting Time. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.60272.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1892). Funny Friends; Or, Queer Pets at Marcy's. New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.59793.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1892). Little Brothers of the Air. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.60361.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1894). A Bird-lover in the West. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.32874. ISBN 040502679X.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1894). Our Home Pets: How to Keep Them Well and Happy. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.20266.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1896). Four-handed Folk. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.98378.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1897). Upon the Tree-tops. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.12525. Illustrated by J. Carter Beard.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1899). The First Book of Birds. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.13738. With eight colored and twelve plain plates and twenty figures in the text.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1901). The Second Book of Birds: Bird Families. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.13734. With eight colored plates from designs by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and sixteen other full-page illustrations.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1903). True Bird Stories from My Note-books. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.60284. With illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
  Miller, Harriet Mann (1904). With the Birds in Maine. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.23151.
caption: Illustration from The first book of birds (1899)
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