est bird has not yet half been recorded. Mr. H. Eliot 

 Howard has recently completed a work on the British 

 Warblers which contains a multitude of remarkable 

 new facts and shows that the life of the most sombre 

 bird is full of absorbing interest. 



Wherever one travels one finds the same state of 

 affairs. In India the Tailor-bird is the commonest in- 

 mate of the compounds about the bungalows. Its 

 wonderful nest, held between two leaves neatly 

 stitched together, is one of the marvels of avian archi- 

 tecture and may readily be found in low bushes. Yet 

 no man has ever seen one of these little birds at work ; 

 we have no knowledge of the method of sewing, of 

 the way the fibre thread is passed in and out of the 

 regular rows of holes. 



In gathering information in the Orient concerning 

 the lives of Pheasants I found that I must put definite 

 questions to people in order to elicit information of 

 value, and a set of inquiries became imperative. With 

 the help of a similar set formulated long ago by Mr. 

 Ernest Thompson Seton, I drew up the following, 

 which I reproduce here because I feel siu'e that they 

 will be of suggestive value in any attempt to work out 

 the life history of our more common American birds. 



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