. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . s and per-haps beating them into a pulp before giving them to theirnestlings: or we may learn how the Doves, High-holes,and Hummingbirds pump softened food from their cropsdown the throats of their offspring. The activity of the parents at this season is of the days work before a pair of Chickadees witha family of six or eight fledglings clamoring for foodfrom daylight to dark! But the young birds themselves furnish far more in-teresting and valuable subjects for study. None of thehigher animals can be reared so easily witho
. Bird-life; a guide to the study of our common birds . s and per-haps beating them into a pulp before giving them to theirnestlings: or we may learn how the Doves, High-holes,and Hummingbirds pump softened food from their cropsdown the throats of their offspring. The activity of the parents at this season is of the days work before a pair of Chickadees witha family of six or eight fledglings clamoring for foodfrom daylight to dark! But the young birds themselves furnish far more in-teresting and valuable subjects for study. None of thehigher animals can be reared so easily without the aid ofa parent. We therefore can not only study their growthof body and mind when in the nest and attended bytheir parents, but we can isolate the young of prsecocialbirds, such as Chickens, from other birds and study theirmental development where they have no opportunity tolearn by imitation. In this way students of instinct andheredity have obtained most valuable results.* * Read Lloyd Morgans Habit and Instinct (Edward Arnold, NewYork city).. ist v$*k. % e^ovt**Xv. 0 v>v » Plate XXIV. Page 115. DOWNY WOODPECKER. Length, 6-75 inches. Male, upper parts black and white, nape scarlet;under parts white. Female, similar, but no scarlet on nape. CHAPTEK TO IDENTIFY BIRDS. The preceding outline of the events which may enterinto a birds life-history has, I trust, given some idea ofthe possibilities attending the study of birds in the come now to the practical question of are we to find birds, and, having found them, howare we to learn their names ? From April to August there is probably not a min-ute of the day when in a favorable locality one can notsee or hear birds; and there is not a day in the yearwhen at least some birds can not be found. In the be-ginning, therefore, the question of finding them is simplya matter of looking and listening. Later will come thedelightful hunts for certain rarer species whose acquaint-ance we may make
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