Iv Preface. 
The information given as to the food and 
habits of our birds may probably interest and 
benefit the agriculturist. The great majority of 
our feathered visitors are insectivorous, and con- 
sequently good friends of the farmer, who should 
extend his protecting care to these little insect- 
destroyers. 
Many of our Canadian birds are extremely 
interesting, and in beauty of plumage and sweet- 
ness and variety of song equal, if they do not 
surpass, the birds of any other country. 
The arrangement and classification, and the 
names that are given in this work, are those 
which have been sanctioned by modern orni- 
thologists. 
Av A as 
PinE Grove VILLA, 
Toronto, December, 1871. 
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