Birds and flii Nature 



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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



How to Name the Birds 



(Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1898) is a pocket guide 

 to all the land birds and to the principal water 

 fowl found in the New England States, New- 

 York, Pennsylvania and New' Jersey, for the 

 use of field ornithologists, by H. E. Parkhurst. 

 It is a new departure in bird classification to 

 aid the field ornithologist in determining 

 unknown species. As the introduction saj'S, 

 "it is ill no sense a rival of the excellent 

 annuals on the subject now extant, but is 

 rather an introduction to their more general 

 use." We should say that in conjunction with 

 Birds it would be exceedingly heljsful in 

 making the acquisition of a knowledge of bird 

 life prompt and effective. Too much time is 

 connnonly spent in the acquisition of almost 

 every branch of knowledge, simply because the 

 right means are not used, or improperly used, 

 in obtaining it. 



An accurate likeness of the bird itself fixes 

 the living object in the mind, while no amount 

 of descriptive matter can give even an image of 

 the object. The beginner is, in fact, usually 

 heljiless unless he has the means to identify his 

 specimens. If he takes up one of the standard 

 authorities, he is confronted by a ponderous 

 volume of four or five hundred pages, describing 

 some hundreds of species of all sorts, sizes, and 

 colors, most confusedly mingled. Let him 

 take this book along with him to the woods 

 and fields, and the magazine Rird.s as well, 

 and when he returns at night he will know a 

 good deal abotit birds, because he will have 

 carried them with him, for it is said that he 

 who would acquire knowledge must take some 

 along with him. 



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