LITTLE STUDIES IN THE AKT OF OBSERVATION. 



" As for fowling, during the last that I carried a gun, my excuse was 

 that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. 

 But I confess, I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of 

 studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention 

 to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been will- 

 ing to omit the gun." THOREAU, Walden. 



