Bird Neighbors: an Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds commonly found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods about our Homes

Abstract

AT the first glance this volume might well be mistaken for an addition to the already extensive literature relating to British birds; but the spelling of the second word in its somewhat cumbersome title at once proclaims its Transatlantic origin. And, as a matter of fact, it is really a popular account of some of the commoner birds of the United States. Since it is confessedly printed in New York, it is doubtless an English edition of a work first published in the States; and although it may be most useful in the land of its birth, we may perhaps be permitted to suggest that it would have been better had its issue been restricted to that country.

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; with Introduction by John Burroughs. Pp. viii + 234. Coloured plates. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., Ltd., 1898.)