I 5 6 love's meinie. 



Then, the Ouzels pass up into Blackbirds, the 

 Rails to the left into Woodcocks, the AUegrets 

 to the right into Plovers, the Grebes, down 

 left, into Ducks, and the Titanias, down right, 

 into Gulls. And tliere^s a bit of pentagonal 

 Darwinism for you, if you like it, and learn it, 

 which will be really good for something in the 

 end, or the five ends. 



122. And for the bliss of classification pure, 

 with no ends of any sort or any number, 

 referring my reader to the works of orni- 

 thologists in general, and for what small 

 portion of them he may afterwards care to 

 consult, to my Appendix, I will end this 

 lecture, and this volume, with the refreshment 

 for us of a piece of perfect English and exqui- 

 site wit, falling into verse, — the Chorus of the 

 Birds, in Mr. Courthope's Paradise of them, — 

 a book lov'ely, and often faultless, in most of 

 its execution, but little skilled or attractive in 

 plan, and too thoughtful to be understood 

 without such notes as a good author will not 

 write on his own work ; partly because he has 

 not time, and partly because he always feels 

 that if people won't look for his meaning, 

 they should not be told it. My own special 



