. Bird-land echoes; . ummer evening or rambles during his vacationdays. What the birds status is in the hand-books mat-ters little to most people, not even if, to further befogthe subject, a quadrinomial nomenclature for elu-cidating identification be attached thereto. Thereis happily a wide-spread impression that birds aresomething more than mere specimens whereupondistorting taxidermy has exercised its appalling lackof skill. Even the alien sparrows of the streets give Introduction. 15 the lie to museums, or people might well turn fromornithology with feelings akin to disgust As it is,the wo
. Bird-land echoes; . ummer evening or rambles during his vacationdays. What the birds status is in the hand-books mat-ters little to most people, not even if, to further befogthe subject, a quadrinomial nomenclature for elu-cidating identification be attached thereto. Thereis happily a wide-spread impression that birds aresomething more than mere specimens whereupondistorting taxidermy has exercised its appalling lackof skill. Even the alien sparrows of the streets give Introduction. 15 the lie to museums, or people might well turn fromornithology with feelings akin to disgust As it is,the woods, fields, mountain-sides, and river-valleystell another and a charming story, of which, I wouldbe glad to think, the pages that follow give back afaint echo. However this may prove, the portraits of birdshere given, from the skilful hand of my friend Wil-liam Everett Cram, tell their own stoty. They arespeaking likenesses that call for no explanatory textCharles Conrad Abbott. Three Beeches, January 19, 1896. C^N O. WM-^ ^ ■?!; *v? Hermit Thrush. (See page loi.) kA
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