Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Handbook of the Sparrows, Finches, Etc., Of New England
It is very obvious that this simple beginning trains both eye and ear to observe markings which are more difficult to see, and to note variations in songs which is far more difficult to learn.
While we can never hope to teach ornithology in our Public Schools as a science, it becomes necessary for the pupils to acquire some knowledge of birds, and this knowledge had better be founded upon a solid basis in a form which can be retained in the mind, rather than by a diffusion over a large area which is much more likely to be only transitory. Hence I have recommended the study of this single family, some members of which can be seen by pupils every day through out the year.
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