PERSONS OF THE MASQUE[1]
in the order of their appearance

QUERCUS, faun
ALWYN, poet
SHY, naturalist
TACITA, dryad
ORNIS, bird spirit
STARK, plume hunter

PARTICIPANTS IN PANTOMIME

Hunter Attendants of Stark
Many species of birds—in human form, garbed symbolically

SCENE

The sylvan glade of a bird sanctuary.

1.  The complete programme of the original production of the masque, as first enacted at Meriden, New Hampshire, by members of the Cornish Colony and the Meriden Bird Club, is printed in the Afterword of this volume.

THE PRELUDE

THE LITTLE GIRL FALLS INTO REVERIE