10 ZESTHETIC RELATIONS OF BIRDS. 
birds, their grace of motion and musical powers, we must 
know them. ‘Then, too, we will be attracted by their 
high mental development, or what I have elsewhere 
spoken of as “their human attributes. Man exhibits 
hardly a trait which he will not find reflected in the life 
of a bird. Love, hate; courage, fear; anger, pleasure ; 
vanity, modesty; virtue, vice; constancy, fickleness; gen- 
erosity, selfishness; wit, curiosity, memory, reason—we 
may find them all exhibited in the lives of birds. Birds 
have thus become symbolic of certain human character- 
istics, and the more common species are so interwoven in 
our art and literature that by name at least they are 
known to all of us.” 
The sight of a bird or the sound of its voice is at all 
times an event of such significance to me, a source of 
such unfailing pleasure, that when I go afield with those 
to whom birds are strangers, I am deeply impressed by 
the comparative barrenness of tueir world, for they live 
in ignorance of the great store of enjoyment which might 
be theirs for the asking. 
I count each day memorable that brought me a new 
friend among the birds. It was an event to be recorded 
in detail. A creature which, up to that moment, existed 
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