80 AMATEUR ORNITHOLOGY. 
6 Yellow-breasted Woodpeckers, 1 Flicker, 5 Crow Black- 
birds, 1 Kingfisher, and 1 Wood Thrush. On May gth, 
1893, in the same park, I saw 10 Myrtle-birds, 2 Yellow- 
green Warblers, 3 Chipping Sparrows, 4 Flickers, 1 Oriole, 
g Robins, 3 Brown Thrashers, 1 Wood Thrush, 2 Ruby- 
crowned Kinglets, 2 Brown Creepers, 1 Black-and-white 
Creeper, 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers, and 3 Blackbirds, 
This proves one can go to the suburbs and find splendid days 
for observation. 
There is something barbarous in the desire of any person, 
young or old, to destroy birds. I am charitable enough to 
think it may come into a boy’s mind purely from the love 
of showing his skill, how accurately he can aim, and how close 
he can come to the mark. Akin to this destruction, is that 
of gathering eggs “to make a collection,” as they say. It 
becomes a craze in the spring for boys to rush out into the 
fields, beside the tangled brush of streams, and climb trees 
to rob nests. This is done ruthlessly, without any fore- 
thought. It is dreadfully bad. At this time of life older 
heads should direct, older eyes watch, and strong words of 
counsel be used. I venture to say that in the colleges and 
schools of North America there are eggs enough for all 
the scientific culture that is needed in this age. 
As I close this paper a thought cognate to the subject 
comes to mind. Every motion in nature, I believe, has been 
imitated by man, except that of a bird flying. The Duck or 
Goose swimming on the water is shown by the side-wheel 
steamer. The fish in the water is imitated by the propeller 
which now takes the place of paddle-wheels, and by that 
quite late invention of the electric torpedo. Will a bird’s 
flight ever be successfully attained by man? I believe it 
will. There are not data enough yet, I admit, to make a 
perfect argument or come to aconclusion. But the science 
of aviation is slumbering in men’s minds, Invention, the 
characteristic to a Yankee’s intellect, is constant and per- 
petual. There is a seething desire in some people to fly 
