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giving- a complete list. A few hours spent in the public 

 library- with the different authors ma}' spjare the purse and 

 save the shelves from a burden of books that will be opened 

 but once. We may leaA^e to specialists the treatises which 

 deal chiefly with classification and museum methods of 

 bird studv. Hapjpilv, avc have a goodh' number of books 

 that enter into the spirit of bird life. \\"e will follow these 

 and still bear in mind that the great book lies daily open 

 before us in the bird life about our homes. 



Natural historv is taught in infant scliools bv pictures .stuck up 

 against walls, and such like mummery. A moment's notice of 

 a redbreast pecking at a winter's hearth is worth it all. Wu-LIAM 

 Wordsworth. 



