This narrative of neighborship with birds is suggestive rather than
exhaustive. It aims not so much to inform the reader, as to instill in
him the desire to learn from the outdoors itself, to know _at first
hand_ about the charms and the benefactions of birdlife. The observing
reader will supply what has been left unsaid, and so experience the zest
of initiative, the joy of discovery, in our mysterious and manifold
bird-world.