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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
accomp