diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
index 6ddde00e2..480377898 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
@@ -478,6 +478,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin):
     def transpose(self, *args, copy: _bool = ...) -> DataFrame: ...
     @property
     def T(self) -> DataFrame: ...
+    def __getattr__(self, name: str) -> Series: ...
     @overload
     def __getitem__(self, idx: Scalar) -> Series: ...
     @overload
@@ -1091,17 +1092,6 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin):
     def applymap(
         self, func: Callable, na_action: Literal["ignore"] | None = ..., **kwargs
     ) -> DataFrame: ...
-    def append(
-        self,
-        other: DataFrame
-        | Series
-        | dict[Any, Any]
-        | Sequence[Scalar]
-        | Sequence[ListLike],
-        ignore_index: _bool = ...,
-        verify_integrity: _bool = ...,
-        sort: _bool = ...,
-    ) -> DataFrame: ...
     def join(
         self,
         other: DataFrame | Series | list[DataFrame | Series],
diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi
index b9cf20a27..eedd6cc33 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/generic.pyi
@@ -359,7 +359,6 @@ class NDFrame(PandasObject, indexing.IndexingMixin):
         self, func: Callable[..., T] | tuple[Callable[..., T], str], *args, **kwargs
     ) -> T: ...
     def __finalize__(self, other, method=..., **kwargs) -> NDFrame: ...
-    def __getattr__(self, name: _str): ...
     def __setattr__(self, name: _str, value) -> None: ...
     @property
     def values(self) -> ArrayLike: ...
diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
index 324796736..757a04044 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/series.pyi
@@ -245,6 +245,7 @@ class Series(IndexOpsMixin, NDFrame, Generic[S1]):
         is_copy: _bool | None = ...,
         **kwargs,
     ) -> Series[S1]: ...
+    def __getattr__(self, name: str) -> S1: ...
     @overload
     def __getitem__(
         self,
@@ -495,12 +496,6 @@ class Series(IndexOpsMixin, NDFrame, Generic[S1]):
         side: Literal["left", "right"] = ...,
         sorter: _ListLike | None = ...,
     ) -> int: ...
-    def append(
-        self,
-        to_append: Series | Sequence[Series],
-        ignore_index: _bool = ...,
-        verify_integrity: _bool = ...,
-    ) -> Series[S1]: ...
     @overload
     def compare(
         self,
diff --git a/tests/test_frame.py b/tests/test_frame.py
index 1e38f8f4c..c88303a6f 100644
--- a/tests/test_frame.py
+++ b/tests/test_frame.py
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@
 
 from pandas._typing import Scalar
 
-from tests import check
+from tests import (
+    TYPE_CHECKING_INVALID_USAGE,
+    check,
+)
 
 from pandas.io.parsers import TextFileReader
 
@@ -71,26 +74,23 @@ def test_types_any() -> None:
 def test_types_append() -> None:
     df = pd.DataFrame(data={"col1": [1, 2], "col2": [3, 4]})
     df2 = pd.DataFrame({"col1": [10, 20], "col2": [30, 40]})
-    with pytest.warns(FutureWarning, match="The frame.append"):
-        res1: pd.DataFrame = df.append(df2)
-    with pytest.warns(FutureWarning, match="The frame.append"):
-        res2: pd.DataFrame = df.append([1, 2, 3])
-    with pytest.warns(FutureWarning, match="The frame.append"):
-        res3: pd.DataFrame = df.append([[1, 2, 3]])
-    with pytest.warns(FutureWarning, match="The frame.append"):
-        res4: pd.DataFrame = df.append(
+    if TYPE_CHECKING_INVALID_USAGE:
+        res1: pd.DataFrame = df.append(df2)  # type: ignore[operator]
+        res2: pd.DataFrame = df.append([1, 2, 3])  # type: ignore[operator]
+        res3: pd.DataFrame = df.append([[1, 2, 3]])  # type: ignore[operator]
+        res4: pd.DataFrame = df.append(  # type: ignore[operator]
             {("a", 1): [1, 2, 3], "b": df2}, ignore_index=True
         )
-    with pytest.warns(FutureWarning, match="The frame.append"):
-        res5: pd.DataFrame = df.append({1: [1, 2, 3]}, ignore_index=True)
-    with pytest.warns(FutureWarning, match="The frame.append"):
-        res6: pd.DataFrame = df.append(
+        res5: pd.DataFrame = df.append(  # type: ignore[operator]
+            {1: [1, 2, 3]}, ignore_index=True
+        )
+        res6: pd.DataFrame = df.append(  # type: ignore[operator]
             {1: [1, 2, 3], "col2": [1, 2, 3]}, ignore_index=True
         )
-    with pytest.warns(FutureWarning, match="The frame.append"):
-        res7: pd.DataFrame = df.append(pd.Series([5, 6]), ignore_index=True)
-    with pytest.warns(FutureWarning, match="The frame.append"):
-        res8: pd.DataFrame = df.append(
+        res7: pd.DataFrame = df.append(  # type: ignore[operator]
+            pd.Series([5, 6]), ignore_index=True
+        )
+        res8: pd.DataFrame = df.append(  # type: ignore[operator]
             pd.Series([5, 6], index=["col1", "col2"]), ignore_index=True
         )
 
@@ -1716,6 +1716,12 @@ def test_pos() -> None:
     check(assert_type(+df, pd.DataFrame), pd.DataFrame)
 
 
+def test_getattr() -> None:
+    # GH 261
+    df = pd.DataFrame({"a": [1, 2]})
+    check(assert_type(df.a, pd.Series), pd.Series)
+
+
 def test_xs_key() -> None:
     # GH 214
     mi = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([[0, 1], [0, 1]], names=["foo", "bar"])
diff --git a/tests/test_series.py b/tests/test_series.py
index c51d759f5..553241fb0 100644
--- a/tests/test_series.py
+++ b/tests/test_series.py
@@ -1147,6 +1147,12 @@ def test_neg() -> None:
     check(assert_type(-sr_int, "pd.Series[int]"), pd.Series, int)
 
 
+def test_getattr() -> None:
+    # GH 261
+    series = pd.Series([1, 2, 3], index=["a", "b", "c"], dtype=int)
+    check(assert_type(series.a, int), np.integer)
+
+
 def test_dtype_type() -> None:
     # GH 216
     s1 = pd.Series(["foo"], dtype="string")