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Bird Neighbors
by Neltje Blanchan

Etext prepared by Gerry Rising of Buffalo, NY. Notes [in brackets] are the American
Ornithologists Union bird names as of 1998.

BIRD NEIGHBORS. An Introductory Acquaintance With One Hundred and Fifty Birds
Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes
By NELTJE BLANCHAN
INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURROUGHS 1897, 1904, 1922
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURROUGHS
PREFACE I. BIRD FAMILIES: Their Characteristics and the Representatives of Each
Family included in "Bird Neighbors" II. HABITATS OF BIRDS III. SEASONS OF
BIRDS IV. BIRDS GROUPED ACCORDING TO SIZE V. DESCRIPTIONS OF
BIRDS GROUPED ACCORDING TO COLOR Birds Conspicuously Black Birds
Conspicuously Black and White Dusky, Gray, and Slate-colored Birds Blue and Bluish
Birds Brown, Olive or Grayish Brown, and Brown and Gray Sparrowy Birds Green,
Greenish Gray, Olive, and Yellowish O1ive Birds Birds Conspicuously Yellow and
Orange Birds Conspicuously Red of any Shade
INTRODUCTION
I write these few introductory sentences to this volume only to second so worthy an
attempt to quicken and enlarge the general interest in our birds. The book itself is merely
an introduction, and is only designed to place a few clews in the reader's hands which he
himself or herself is to follow up. I can say that it is reliable and is written in a vivacious
strain and by a real bird lover, and should prove a help and a stimulus to any one who
seeks by the aid of its pages to become better acquainted with our songsters. The various
grouping of the birds according to color, season, habitat, etc., ought to render the
identification of the birds, with no other weapon than an opera glass, an easy matter.
When I began the study of the birds I had access to a copy of Audubon, which greatly
stimulated my interest in the pursuit, but I did not have the opera glass, and I could not
take Audubon with me on my walks, as the reader may this volume.
But you do not want to make out your bird the first time; the book or your friend must not
make the problem too easy for you. You must go again and again, and see and hear your
bird under varying conditions and get a good hold of several of its characteristic traits.
Things easily learned are apt to be easily forgotten. Some ladies, beginning the study of

birds, once wrote to me, asking if I would not please come and help them, and set them
right about certain birds in dispute. I replied that that would