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Title: Our Bird Comrades

Author: Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

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OUR BIRD COMRADES

By

LEANDER S. KEYSER

Author of "Birddom," "In Bird Land,"
and "Birds of the Rockies," etc.

[Frontispiece: American Sparrow-hawk]

Rand, McNally & Company
Chicago New York London

Copyright, 1907
by Rand, McNally & Co.

The Rand-McNally Press
Chicago

_To

ALL WHO LOVE THE BIRDS FOR THEIR
OWN SAKES,

who desire to cultivate comradeship with them in books
and in the field, and who will study them
with the glass and without the gun._

BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

To know the birds intimately, to interpret their lives in all their
varied conditions, one must get close to them. For the purpose of
accomplishing this object the author of this volume has gone to their
haunts day after day and watched them persistently at not a little cost
of time, effort, and money. While the limits of a single volume do not
permit him to present all of his observations, it is hoped that those
here offered will be satisfactory as far as they go, and that the
reader will be able to glean from these pages some new as well as
interesting facts relative to bird life.

The writer has had another purpose in view in preparing this book: He
wishes to inspire others, especially the young, to use their eyes and
ears in the study of the enchanting volume of Nature. This object, he
believes, will be best accomplished by furnishing concrete examples of
what may be achieved by earnest research. For purposes of stimu