412. Field Glass [ Ornithology ]. ByG. R. C. Ibid., pp. 150, 151, 157, 158. 
— It is to be hoped that this method will be reserved for those “who have 
no wish, strictly speaking, to become ornithologists or oologists,” and that 
observations made by persons who have “become acquainted” with birds 
in this way will never be put in print as a contribution to ornithology. 
The writer in attempting to teach this system gives an illustration of how 
to identify birds with a glass, his “Pine-linnets ( Ckrysomitris Minus')” be- 
ing known by “the prominent and always constant bright yellow rump.” 
Comment is needless. Watching birds through a field glass as a pleasant 
amusement we would not discourage, but as a method of identifying birds 
by novices, we do not know of a more excellent illustration of “how not 
to do it.” Q, & Q. W'O’L 
Ckrysomitris f>i?ius. By Dr. Elliott Coues. 
>id., XIX, No. 19, p. 364, Dec. 7, 1882.— General history of the species, 
ith cut of Pine Finch and of American Goldfinch. 
232. The Pine Siskin. 
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