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pension-office clerks to get pigeon-holes enough for 
them! But twelve of the seventeen we shall leave 
entirely alone,—the divers, all kinds of swim- 
mers, waders, herons, cranes, parrots, and others 
that most of us never see outside of museums. Of 
the five orders left, four are quickly disposed of. 
The partridge will be our only representative of 
the “gallinaceous birds,” the cuckoos and king- 
fishers of the order of ‘ cuckoos, ete.,” the wood- 
peckers of the “ woodpeckers, ete.,”’ and the swift, 
humming-bird, night-hawk, and whippoorwill of 
the “ goatsuckers, swifts, ete.” 
There are so few of these, and they are so scat- 
tered, that it does not seem worth while to give up 
part of our pigeon-holes to them, so we will put 
them away in a drawer by themselves, and keep 
our pigeon-holes free for the one order left, — the 
highest of all, —that of the “ perching birds.” It 
has twenty-one families, but we need only four- 
teen holes because there are seven families that 
we shall not take up. So our best way is to paste 
the label “perching birds” over our fourteen 
holes, and then, while remembering that we have 
left out seven families, number each hole and put 
in the birds as they come in their natural order of 
development from low to high. 
The crow goes in No. 2 by himself at present. 
The bobolink, meadow-lark, crow blackbird, and 
oriole all go into No. 3, because they belong to the 
family of “ blackbirds, orioles, etc.,” although they 
