A 



MANUAL OF ORNITHOLOGY. 



$~&-^ 



Linnaeus, the father of Ornithology as we know it, and 

 the most modern of the older writers, divided all Natural ob- 

 jects into 3 KINGDOMS : 



I THE ANIMAL KINGDOM 

 II THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM 

 III THE MINERAL KINGDOM 



We have to deal exclusively with the ANIMAL KING- 

 DOM and but part of that. 



There are, to-day, TWO SCHOOLS OF WRITERS 

 upon the Animal Kingdom (as there are, also, upon the other 

 Kingdoms) called, respectively, the OLD SCHOOL and 

 the NEW SCHOOL. 



Of the former were Linnaeus, Cuvier, and others, whose 



work cannot be wholly ignored ; of the latter are Huxley 



and the German naturalists, who have found able advocates, 



in this country, in Packard, Morse, Hyatt, and many others. 



21 



