Our Common Birds and How to Know Them 
bird, the Catbird, the Thrush (at first you will not be able to say which one of the 
Thrushes), the American Goldfinch, the Baltimore Oriole, the Cuckoo, the Flicker, the 
Hummingbird, the Indigo-bird, the Bobolink. the Meadowlark, the Scarlet Tanager, the 
Bluebird, the Summer Redbird, the Blue Jay, the Chickadee, the Kingfisher, the Chimney 
Swit, the Barn Swallow, the Owl and Woodpecker (perhaps the particular kind of these 
last two will puzzle you), the House Wren, the Cedarbird. and, after you have learned 
the song, the Song Sparrow. 
This is no mean catalogue, and, when you have become familiar with the birds 
comprising it, you will feel that you have added to the number of your acquaintances a 
very goodly company. But before this is accomplished, and it will not require a long 
time to do it, you will have unconsciously learned to know many less easily distinguished 
birds among the Flycatchers and Warblers, not to mention some of the more soberly 
attired partners of those birds which have been mentioned. 
In selecting such a list as has been given however, it must be borne in mind that 
some of these birds vary in color according to the time of year. The Bobolink, for 
example, in Spring and Summer is strongly marked with white, black and buff, while in 
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