CHAPTER V. 



How TO NAME THE BIRDS. 



THE order in which the birds are taken in this 

 book is elsewhere stated to be " mainly that of 

 interest and discovery rather than the one of 

 artificial classification." 



Applying this principle here, those birds are, 

 to a considerable extent, taken first which are 

 most attractive in point of beauty or habit, and 

 which are also sufficiently common to be, on all 

 sides, evident. 



" Discovery," however, must wait upon sea- 

 sons, and thus the " seasonal " idea must in 

 some important degree determine our order. 

 Yet a strictly " seasonal order " is not always 

 convenient for the student. And, therefore, in 

 some instances, especially where different species 

 of the same family of birds are all present in a 

 locality at one time, and through experience are 

 already associated in the minds of people, though 



