XIV INTRODUCTION 



its color and ways, etc., give a lot of facts or details 

 about the bird, it is doubtful if my reader is inter- 

 ested. But if I relate the bird in some way to 

 human life, to my own life, show what it is to 

 me and what it is in the landscape and the season, 

 then do I give my reader a live bird and not a 

 labeled specimen. 



J. B. 



