SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY 



THE many delightful bird books which have 

 appeared in such striking numbers during the past 

 ten years, owe no small part of their charm to 

 the fact that they take for granted in their readers, 

 at least a bowing acquaintance with the little 

 creatures whose habits and characters they de- 

 scribe. Emancipated thus from bondage to the 

 details of size, color, form, and structure, such 

 books are really able, if one may use the old- 

 fashioned idiom, to " make one acquainted " with 

 the birds. This little book assumes a humbler 

 office, -- that of mere introduction. It addresses 

 itself to the would-be student, ignorant of the 

 names of even the commonest birds, but persever- 

 ing enough to learn the size, color, and markings of 

 any bird he desires to name, providing him with a 

 simple key, through which, by the use of these 

 characteristics, any common bird may identified. 

 To this it adds such suggestions about song, 

 habits, and haunts as will prove of use in the field, 



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