H PREFACE.» 
The object of this magazine is to collect and dissem¬ 
inate a knowledge of Bird Life, and cultivate a desire 
for observation in Ornithology and Oology in the rising 
generation. It will advocate and sustain the taking of 
specimens when necessary for identification, also for 
collections when from regions of plenty, but it will sug¬ 
gest other methods equally practicable to those who 
object to destroying life, and cultivate a love of bird 
life about our homes, and a desire to increase rare 
birds by introduction rather than kill off those that 
venture among us. It will avoid the technical as much 
as possible, and make itself fully understood by the gen¬ 
eral reader. 
JOS. M. WADE. 
Norwich, Conn., Feh. 15, 1882. 
