Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration (signed) W Hamilton Gibson] MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS BY WILLIAM HAMILTON GIBSON ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR [Illustration] NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1898 Copyright, 1897, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ [Illustration: CONTENTS] Page _A Familiar Guest_ 3 _The Cuckoos and the Outwitted Cow-bird_ 23 _Door-step Neighbors_ 57 _A Queer Little Family on the Bittersweet_ 87 _The Welcomes of the Flowers_ 105 _A Honey-dew Picnic_ 151 _A Few Native Orchids and Their Insect Sponsors_ 171 _The Milkweed_ 227 _Index_ 239 [Illustration: LIST OF DESIGNS] Page _William Hamilton Gibson_ _Frontispiece_ _Initial. The Studio Door_ 3 _The Rose-bush Episode_ 9 _A Corner of My Table_ 12 _An Animated Brush_ 14 _A Specimen in Three Stages_ 16 _The Studio Table_ 18 _Initial_ 23 _The European Cuckoo_ 24 _The Yellow-billed Cuckoo_ 26 _Browsing Kine_ 29 _A Greedy Foster-child_ 34 _The Yellow Warbler_ 44 _A Blighted Home_ 46 _The Normal Nest of the Yellow Warbler_ 47 _The Yellow Warbler at Home_ 49 _A Suspicious Nest of the Yellow Warbler_ 50 _The Nest Separated_ 52 _Initial_ 57 _The Door-step Arena, with its Pitfalls_ 60 _Fishing for Tigers_ 65 _Tiger-beetle_ 68 _The Spider Victim_ 70 _Filling the Spider's Grave_ 71