







the absence of a better one. The Instructions will, itis be- 

lieved, enable any one to become reasonably proficient in certain ee 
of the indispensable qualifications of a good working ornithol- r Ey 
Ae 
ogist. He intends to take what may or may not be a liberty, Psy 
and to presume that the reader is entirely inexperienced in — | 
My field-work; and he begs the further privilege of waiving © ( 
formality, that he may be allowed to address the reader very 
familiarly, much as if chatting with a friend’ on a subject of Bik. 
mutual interest. | ap RN 


Bendire’s Mocking-thrush, Harporhynchus Bendiret Coues. 
See American Naturalist for June, 1873, Vol. vii, p. 330. 

