Others have made their home in my orchard for years.

And I am going to put in the book more than a hundred beautiful pictures for you and Dodo, drawn so naturally that you can tell every one of the birds by them, and that will make it easier for you to understand what you read.
"For some of the water birds we must go up to the lake or in the summer make a trip over to the seashore.

How do you like that?
Yes, you too, Rap.

By and by, when you know these hundred birds by name and by sight, you will be so far along on the road into Birdland that you can choose your own way, and branch off right and left on whatever path seems most attractive to you; but then you will need big books, and have to learn long hard Latin names." "What birds will you begin with, please, Doctor Roy," said Rap, "the singers or the cannibals ?" "The singers, because they will interest Dodo and Nat the most easily, as they do you.

Then we will talk about the birds that only croak and call; then the cannibal birds; next those that coo, and those that scratch for a living.