The Ornithological Guide: In Which Are Discussed Several Interesting Points in Ornithology (Classic Reprint)

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Ornithology is the science which has for its object the investigation of the habits, affinities, and nature of birds. This pursuit, at first sight so trivial, will, 'if properly followed, be productive of many and im portant advantages. T o enumerate and explain these in all their ramifications would require volumes, and even then, were the task performed by the mest enlarged and comprehensive mind our earth has ever produced, it would still be imperfect, inasmuch as the Being who created the objects of our investiga tion, is infinite - and the investigators, are finite. On the present occasion, however, we can devote only a-few sentences to the subject, in which we shall touch on two or three of the most obvious in ducements to the study.

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