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BIRDS FOB EVERYBODY 



SOME birds belong exclusively to specialists. 

 They are so rare, or their manner of life is so 

 seclusive, that people in general can never be 

 expected to know them except from books. The 

 latest list of the birds of Massachusetts includes 

 about three hundred and fifty species and sub- 

 species. Of these, seventy-five or more are so 

 foreign to this part of the country as to have ap- 

 peared here only by accident, while many others 

 are so excessively rare that no individual observer 

 can count upon seeing them, however close a 

 lookout he may keep. Other species are present 

 in goodly numbers, but only in certain portions 

 of the State ; and still others, though generally 

 distributed and fairly numerous, live habitually 

 in almost impenetrable swamps or in deep forests, 

 and of necessity are seen only by those who make 

 it their business to look for them. 



It is something for which busy men and women 

 may well be thankful, therefore, that so many of 



