. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. n ascertained by leading ornithologists, andwhen the knowledge becomes more widely dissemi-nated, and tlioroughly understood by the masses, in-sect-eating birds will receive that protection fromthe law that their importance demands, and weshall no more see such wholesale and wantondestruction of these innocent servants of man, bythe shotgun of the ignorant and thoughtlesssportsman, and less destruction of the valuableproducts of the soil for lack o
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. n ascertained by leading ornithologists, andwhen the knowledge becomes more widely dissemi-nated, and tlioroughly understood by the masses, in-sect-eating birds will receive that protection fromthe law that their importance demands, and weshall no more see such wholesale and wantondestruction of these innocent servants of man, bythe shotgun of the ignorant and thoughtlesssportsman, and less destruction of the valuableproducts of the soil for lack of their efficient aidin keeping the various tribes of noxious insectsin check. Classification of Birds. — The classifica-tion of birds most familar to the majority ofpersons who have given any attention to thesubject, is probably that of Illigers and ^^igors,as modified from and added to that of Linnffius,the author of this classification, and consists ofseven orders, as follows: Raptores, or Birds ofPrey; Insessores, or Perching Birds, Scansores, orClimbers; Easores, or Scratchers; Cursores, orRunners; GraUatores, or Waders, and the Nata-. tores, or Swimmers. Professor W. A. Stearns, of Amherst College, Massachusetts, says of these orders: These
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