Manuscript detailing characteristics of birds who frequent a pond, as well as the joys and disappointments of photography. A second manuscript describes a red-tailed hawk. Additional excerpts are included from...

Manuscript describing bird families and different subsets in those families. Descriptions include physical traits as well as scientific names.

Manuscript in which William L. Finley describes several varieties of birds, including what he refers to as a sparrow hawk (American kestrel).

Manuscript that includes excerpts of "The bird of night".

Appears to a rough draft of "A family of grosbeaks".

Handwritten manuscript relating the life of some birds around a pond, focusing on a flicker that has sired a few series of offspring.

Manuscript of what appears to be pieces of a newspaper attached to paper. Praises the practice of photography in regards to birds.

Manuscript describing bird colonies.

Manuscript describing the wreckage plume hunting has caused to some bird populations. Author points out that six indictments against two plume hunters had been filed. The defendants fled to California.

Manuscript detailing observations of birds, searching for white herons, and lecturing on bird life.