XIV INTRODUCTION 



its color and ways, etc., give a lot of facts or details 

 about the bird, it is doubtful if my reader is inter- 

 ested. But if I relate the bird in some way to 

 human life, to my own life, — show what it is to 

 me and what it is in the landscape and the season, 

 — then do I give my reader a live bird and not a 

 labeled specimen. 



J. B. 



1895. 



