" The interest the birds excite is of all grades, from that 

 luhich looks iiyon them as items of millinery, iq) to that 

 of makers of ornithological systems, who ransack the 

 luorld for sjjecimejis, and 'who have no ddubt that the chief 

 end of a bird is to be named and catalogued. Somewhere 

 betiveen the tivo extremes cogues the person whose interest in 

 the birds is personal and friendly, luho has little taste for 

 shooting and an aversion for dissecting, tvho delights in the 

 living creatures themselves, a7}d counts a bird in the bush 

 worth two in the hand ; not rating birds merely as bodies, 

 hut as souls. 



"Others will discover in the birds of which Iiorite many 

 things that I iniss, and perhaps loill miss some things 

 which I have treated as pateiit or even conspicuous. It 

 remains for each to testify tuhat he has seen, and at the 

 end to confess that a soul, even the soul of a bird, is, 

 after all, a mystery." 



Bradford Tokrey's ^ Birds in the Bush/ 



