4 KNOWING BIRDS THROUGH STORIES 



fectly happy sitting at the window, watching the birds, 

 and trying to decide in my o^rm mind which of the ones 

 I saw belonged to these different groups. Mother promised 

 that some other time she would tell me about the other 

 great tribes of birds; but those groups contain so many 

 birds and are so easy to distinguish one from another and 

 from the other birds that this lesson has always been of 

 great help to me in deciding to what family any particular 

 bird belongs. I give it to you just as she gave it to me 

 without mentioning the other groups of birds at this 

 time. You will find it interesting and of great help to 

 you to turn to the key in this book and pick out the differ- 

 ent families of birds that come under each of these groups. 

 Further on in the book you may learn about the other 

 groups. 



