Birds Worth Knowing, Selected by the Author from the Writings of Neltje Blanchan -- Bird Neighbors, Birds that Hunt and Are Hunted (Game Birds), How to Attract the Birds, Birds Every Child Should Know (Little Nature Library)

257 pp. 48 color illustrations. CONTENTS: Preface; List of illustrations; I. What Birds Do For Us; II. The Thrush Family; III. Some Neighborly Acrobats; IV. A Family Group of Lively Singers; V. The Warblers; VI. Vireos or Greenlets; VII. Birds Not Of a Feather; VIII. The Swallows; IX. The Comprehensive Sparrow Tribe and Some of Its Multitudinous Kin; X. The Ill-Assorted Blackbird Family; XI. Two Rascally Relations; XII. The Flycatchers; XIII. Some Queer Relations; XIV. Carpenters in Feathers; XV. Kingfisher and Cuckoos; XVI. Night and Day Game Hunters; XVII. Mourner, Martyr, Whistler and Drummer; XVIII. Birds of the Shore and Marshes; XIX. The Fastest Flyers, Swimmers, and Divers; Color Key; Index.