Our Common Birds and How to Know Them 



Oct. 

 15 to ) i Oven-birds, Maryland Yellow-throats, Song Sparrows, Chipping Sparrows, Field 



Sparrows, Phcebes, Chewinks and Black-throated Green Warblers go ; so 

 do the most of the Flickers, Purple Finches, and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. 



Fox Sparrows and Black-poll Warblers now visit us as they go south. 

 Nov. 

 i to 1 5 Purple Crackles, Vesper Sparrows, and Red-winged Blackbirds now go, also 



most of the Meadowlarks, Robins and Bluebirds ; leaving us our Winter- 

 resident birds. 



Snow huntings and Shrikes arrive. 



Just what prominence to give to the purely scientific phase of Ornithology in a book 

 of the limited scope and modest pretensions of this one is not easy to determine. But 

 that some attention should be bestowed upon this branch of the subject, seems advisable 

 for several reasons. Continual reference is made in bird literature to family, species and 

 genus, and a clear conception of just what these terms mean is essential to the reader. 

 Again, even though a knowledge of the common names only of birds be all that is at first 

 intended, the time will shortly arrive when the Latin name will be applied, and when this 

 is done, the genus, the species, and sometimes the sub-species, is indicated by the simple 



