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detriment both to the objective interest and to 

 the pleasure of the pupil. So much happiness 

 depends, as all bird-students will testify, upon 

 searching a little to identify the vocal and flitting 

 feathered beauties. 



The author deprecates, as stated elsewhere in 

 Chapter I, the setting before the pupil in the 

 schoolroom some dead substitute for the thing 

 that he is to find alive outside. 



A long trial (for years) of this method of 

 " specimens," in the public schools of Worcester, 

 Mass., is very instructive upon this point. So 

 harmful was it found to be that some time ago 

 the Superintendent of Schools in that city issued 

 directions prohibiting the further use of dead 

 birds in the study of this living subject. Instead, 

 pupils are taught to come at once into sympa- 

 thetic fellowship with the living birds themselves. 

 And how close that fellowship may be is shown 

 in a number of pictures in this book. The 

 author would have been pleased had all of the 

 illustrations been from living birds, for thus 

 the end sought through the book would have 

 been more fully realized. 



Let the children, and men and women as well, 



