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pension-office clerks to get pigeon-holes enough for 

 them ! But twelve of the seventeen we shall leave 

 entirely alone, the divers, all kinds of swim- 

 mers, waders, herons, cranes, parrots, and others 

 that most of us never see outside of museums. Of 

 the five orders left, four are quickly disposed of. 

 The partridge will be our only representative of 

 the "gallinaceous birds," the cuckoos and king- 

 fishers of the order of " cuckoos, etc.," the wood- 

 peckers of the " woodpeckers, etc.," and the swift, 

 humming-bird, night-hawk, and whippoorwill of 

 the "goatsuckers, swifts, etc." 



There are so few of these, and they are so scat- 

 tered, that it does not seem worth while to give up 

 part of our pigeon-holes to them, so we will put 

 them away in a drawer by themselves, and keep 

 our pigeon-holes free for the one order left, the 

 highest of all, that of the " perching birds." It 

 has twenty-one families, but we need only four- 

 teen holes because there are seven families that 

 we shall not take up. So our best way is to paste 

 the label " perching birds " over our fourteen 

 holes, and then, while remembering that we have 

 left out seven families, number each hole and put 

 in the birds as they come in their natural order of 

 development from low to high. 



The crow goes in No. 2 by himself at present. 

 The bobolink, meadow-lark, crow blackbird, and 

 oriole all go into No. 3, because they belong to the 

 family of " blackbirds, orioles, etc.," although they 



