Our Common Birds and How to Know Them 
15 to 31 = Oven-birds, Maryland Yellow-throats, Song Sparrows, Chipping Sparrows, Field 
Sparrows, Phaebes, Chewinks and Black-throated Green Warblers go ; so 
do the most of the Flickers, Purple Finches, and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. 
Fox Sparrows and Black-poll Warblers now visit us as they go south. 
Nov. 
1 to15 Purple Grackles, Vesper Sparrows, and Red-winged Blackbirds now go, also 
most of the Meadowlarks, Robins and Bluebirds ; leaving us our Winter- 
resident birds. 
Snow Buntings and Shrikes arrive. 
Just what prominence to give to the purely scientific phase of Ornithology in a book 
of the limited scope and modest pretensions of this one is not easy to determine. But 
that some attention should be bestowed upon this branch of the subject, seems advisable 
for several reasons. Continual reference is made in bird literature to family, species and 
genus, and a clear conception’of just what these terms mean is essential to the reader. 
Again, even though a knowledge of the common names only of birds be all that is at first 
intended, the time will shortly arrive when the Latin name will be applied, and when this 
is done, the genus, the species, and sometimes the sub-species, is indicated by the simple 
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