' : 



HAT is but a 



superficial stu- 

 dent of ornithology who is 

 content to know his birds by 

 the mere specific characters of 

 anatomy, plumage, and egg ; who 

 shoots his bird, and names the 



dead body afterwards by the analytical key a songless orni- 

 thology. Even though he shall name his specimen at a glance 

 Latin tag and all he may yet have less ornithology in his soul 

 than his unlettered country cousin the old miller, perhaps, who 

 will tell us that "the hang-bird has been there on such a morn- 

 ing, unravelling his bagging or stealing his tie string;" who will 

 point out to us "the teeter-bird that picks the water-bugs from 

 the wet stones for his long-legged fuzzy young uns;" or the "lit- 

 tle brown chap with speckled breast that builds a nest jest like 



