298 AN EXTENSIVE SUBJECT 



and falling flight, and this too I believe is a pleasure 

 to the birds, and that they spend much time on the 

 wing for the sake of it. 



In this chapter I have dealt briefly with an extensive 

 subject, but a great array of facts, which may be 

 found in scores of books, were not needed to enable 

 the reader to see what I mean : I give but few facts, 

 and those mostly gathered by myself in the field. 

 The larger part of the subject, or at all events that 

 part of it which seems most interesting to us as human 

 beings — instrumental music in man — remains to be 

 treated in the next chapter. 



