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The object of this magazine is to collect and dissenn- 

 inate a knowledge of Bird Life, and cultivate a desire 

 for observation in Ornithology and Oology in the rising 

 generation, and place on record their discoveries and ob- 

 servations. It will sustain the taking of specimens when 

 necessary for identification, also for collections when 

 from regions of plenty, but it will suggest other methods 

 of identification equally practicable to those who object 

 to destroying life, and cultivate a love of bird life about 

 our honies, and a desire to increase rare birds by intro- 

 duction rather than kill off those that venture among us. 

 It Avill avoid the technical as much as possible, and make 

 itself fully understood by the general reader. 



JOS. M. WADE. 



Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1883. 



