The Birds’ Calendar 
scattered throughout the country, where, so to 
speak, one may have a concentrated view of the 
bird-life of an immense territory. In the pano- 
rama thus afforded, such a spot resembles one of 
the lofty Andes of South America—an epitome 
of continents—between whose base and summit 
one finds all the diversities of climate from the 
torrid to the arctic zone, with the correspond- 
ing picturesque gradation of vegetable fauna, 
from the delicate and luxuriant, but ephemeral, 
bloom of Brazil to the hardy lichens and the dark 
and stunted but obdurate pines of Labrador. 
The work, however, will-be found to contain 
much more than a year’s individual experience 3. 
for by interweaving with the narrative the dis- 
cussion of all the prominent aspects of bird~- 
life that pertain to field ornithology, the book 
aims to give a much more comprehensive view 
of the subject than could be afforded in a mere- 
ly personal and local chronicle. And while it 
may not contain any new disclosures for the 
experienced naturalist, yet in the event of such 
perusal, it is a satisfaction to remember that 
sometimes it is as pleasant to be reminded of 
what we already know, as to be told something 
new,—to see a familiar object through another’s 
eyes, as an unfamiliar one through our own. 
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