Excerpt from Birds Through an Opera-Glass There are especial advantages in beginning to study birds in the cities, for by going to the mu scums you can compare the bird skins with the birds you have seen in the field. And, moreover, you can get an idea of the grouping of the differ ent families which will help you materially in placing the live bird when you meet him at home. If you do not live in the city, as I have said elsewhere, shrubby village dooryards, the trees of village streets, and orchards, roadside fences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.