How to Attract the Birds 



LOWER AND UPPER CLASSES 



The labour involved in rearing a family differs, 

 of course, with the species by reason of physical 

 conditions, temperament, and environment. Some 

 birds of the lower orders have little required of 

 them by Nature, while others, more highly organized, 



A precocial grouse chick 



are enslaved by family cares as if they were afflicted 

 with the New England conscience. But, generally 

 speaking, there are only two classes : the lower or 

 precocial birds, including those which, fully clothed 

 and wide awake when hatched, are able to run or 

 swim at once and pick up their own living like our 

 domestic fowls, ducks, Bob Whites, grouse, plover 

 and snipe ; and the altricial birds those which come 

 into the world blind, naked and helpless, or nearly 



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