The Inheritance II 
flickers, jays, swifts, swallows, vireos, orioles, 
humming-birds, cardinals, and purple finches 
will all appear familiar and yet all are differ- 
ent species from those to which he is accus- 
tomed. He will quickly recognise kingbirds 
and phcebes but not those he has known of 
old. The spurred towhee will suggest the 
chewink; Parkman’s wren the wren of the 
apple orchard; Audubon’s warbler the myrtle 
bird; the pileolated warbler the blackcap; 
and any one of several thrashers, though 
different in dress from the Eastern bird, will 
plainly declare itself a thrasher. Cafion 
wren and rock wren will instantly proclaim 
themselves of the delightful family of wrens; 
but the cactus wren will appear a strange off- 
shoot and the greentailed, California, and 
cafion towhees very distant connections of the 
Eastern chewink. One may thus feel some- 
what at home in this new bird world before 
cultivating the acquaintance of such dis- 
tinctly Western birds as the wren-tits and 
bush-tits, the phainopeplas, solitaires, and 
ouzels. 
There is a rare pleasure in recognising mem- 
bers of particular families of birds and plants, 
even if one does not know the name of the 
individual. Peculiarities of the family are 
