-{ti NATURE STUDY IN SCHOOLS. 



SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY FOR TEACHERS. 



BY 



C. J. Maynard. 



( CONTINUED. ) 



CLASSIFICATION. 



In order to teach intelligently any branch of nature 

 study, especially in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, it 

 first becomes necessary to understand the terminology of 

 classification, or in other words, the names of the groups 

 into which plants and animals are divided by systematists. 

 It is also necessary to understand the relationship which 

 each of these groups bears to the others. 



■terminology of classification. 



The names of the various groups of plants and ani- 

 mals vary somewhat with various systematists, but the fol- 

 lowing names will be found sufficient to indicate any par- 

 ticular group, especially in the animal kingdom. 



KINGDOM, Animal. 



BRANCH, Metazoa, Many-celled. 



PROVINCE, Vertebrates. 



CLASS, Birds. 



ORDER, Singing Perciiers. 



FAMILY, Thrushes. 



GENUS, True Thrushes. 



SPECIES, Audubon's Thrush. 



SUB-SPECIES, Hermit Thrush. 



INDIVIDUAL, A Single Hermit Thrush. 



RELATIONSHIP OF GROUPS. 



In order to ascertain the relationship which one group bears to another, 

 we will take some animal, a bird for example, and trace it through the 

 series. 



Clearly, of the three Kingdoms which we have, the Bird belongs to the 

 Animal. Hence there is no difficulty in deciding, for in most cases the dif- 



