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The Bird 



science depends upon two things: first, the accumula- 

 tion of facts; and secondly, a philosophical spirit capable 

 of generalizing and bringing order out of the chaos of 



Fig. 229. — Breast of Scaled Partridge. 



Fig. 230. — Carp, a fish with distinctly marked scales. (Keller, photographei.) 



these myriad observations. A knowledge of museum 

 facts is of but slight use in such a subject as the one under 

 consideration, which requires more adequate knowledge 



