‘* The interest the birds excite ts of all grades, from that 
which looks upon them as items of millinery, up to that 
of makers of ornithological systems, who ransack the 
world for specimens, and who have no doubt that the chief 
end of a bird ts to be named and catalogued. Somewhere 
between the two extremes comes the person whose interest in. 
the birds is personal and friendly, who has little taste for 
shooting and an aversion for dissecting, who delights in the 
living creatures themselves, and counts a bird in the bush 
worth two in the hand : not rating birds merely as bodies, 
but as souls. 
“Others will discover in the birds of which I write many 
things that I miss, and perhaps will miss some things 
which IT have treated as patent or even conspicuous. It 
remains for each to testify what he has seen, and at the 
end to confess that a soul, even the soul of a bird, is, 
after all, a mystery.” 
BRADFORD TORREY’s ‘BIRDS IN THE BUSH.’ 
