TWO YOUNG NATURALISTS. 



"Certainly, cerrr-tainly ! " hissed the bird, who ap- 

 peared to know that they were talking about him, and 

 to wish to assume a part in this protest. 



" Where would you enrol him ? The order of 

 perchers is a negative one, without any real distinctive 



BD : AVOCET (Rccurvirostra acocetta, Lin.). 



character of its own, a sort of naturalist's chaos, 

 where everything that is not web -foot, wader, rapa- 

 cious, climber, nor game-bird, is thrown into the 

 general mass. Some subdivisions of it have been 

 formed, which are chiefly based on the form of the 



