^ 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, and place on record their discoveries and ob¬ 
servations. It will sustain the taking of specimens when 
necessary for identification, also for collections when 
from regions of plenty, but it will suggest other methods 
of identification 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 intro¬ 
duction 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 general reader. 
JOS. M. WADE. 
Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1883. 
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