The Birds’ Calendar 
needs go to Labrador or Mexico for his speci- 
mens. Plants adhere to their own zone and 
climate. But by the laws of migration, as ex- 
plained hereafter, the avifauna of these and of 
even more remote regions accommodatingly 
comes to our own doors every spring and fall. 
One can find in his front yard strange visitors 
from tropic and arctic climes, if he is only up 
betimes to greet them. ‘This is what makes 
locality a matter of so much less significance in or- 
nithology than in any kindred pursuit. Orni- 
thology might well be called the panoramic 
science ; even more so in this latitude than 
botany and entomology. A specimen that you 
find at Washington in March may be singing 
you a welcome to Canada in June. 
Field ornithology can no more be taught 
than the art of writing poetry can be taught. 
You must put yourself in the way of catch- 
ing the fever, and then let the disease work. 
The chief rule for studying a bird in its wild 
state is, first find your bird. The only way 
to success in this and the kindred sciences is 
through patience and the art of observation. 
The study will prove disciplinary as well as 
pleasurable. 
An enjoyment incident to ornithology that 
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