CHAPTER V. 



How TO Name the Birds. 



The order in which the birds are taken in this 

 book is elsewhere stated to be '' mainly that of 

 interest and discovery rather than the one of 

 artificial classification." 



Applying this principle here, those birds are, 

 to a considerable extent, taken first which are 

 most attractive in point of beauty or habit, and 

 which are also sufficiently common to be, on all 

 sides, evident. 



" Discovery," however, must wait upon sea- 

 sons, — and thus the " seasonal " idea must in 

 some important degree determine our order. 

 Yet a strictly " seasonal order " is not always 

 convenient for the student. And, therefore, in 

 some instances, especially where different species 

 of the same family of birds are all present in a 

 locality at one time, and through experience are 

 already associated in the minds of people, though 



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