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Front MatterSource: The Auk, Vol. 13, No. 2 (Apr., 1896)Published by: American Ornithologists' UnionStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4068689 .
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ON THE FLORIDA GROUND OWL (Speotytofloridana). By WVilliam Palmner. (Plate II.) . . 9 THE TAXONOMIC VALUE OF THE TON(;UE IN BIRDS. By Frederic A. Lucas. log NOTES ON SOME OF THE BIRDS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. By Florence A. Merriam. . . 1.15
THE LAW WHICH UNDERLIES PROTECTIVE COLORATION. By Abbott H. Thayer. . . . 124
DESCRIPTIONS pF A NEW HORNED LARK AND A NE:W SONG SPARROW, WITH REMARKS ON
SENNETT'S NIGHTHAWK. By Louis B. Bisho. . .129
AN APPARENTLY NEW Chordeiles FROM COSTA RICA. By George K. Cherrie. 135
GATKE'S 'HELIGOLAND.' By J. A. Allen. ..137
A REVISION OF THE NORTH AMIEIaICAN. HORNED OWLS, WITH DESCRIPTION OF. A NEw SUB-
SPECIES. By Witmer Stone... . . . . 153
RECENT LITERATURE .- The 'Birds' of 'Tle Roval Natural History,' 156; Saunders alnd Salvini's 'Catalogue of the Gavix and Tubinares,' 160; Salvadori's Catalogue of the Chenomorphw, Crypturi, and Ratitx, 162; Chapmalx o01 Changes of Plumage in the Dunlin and Sanderling, 164; Chapman on the Plumage of the Snowflake, i65; Allen on Alleged Changes of Color in the Feathers of Birds without Moultinig, 166; The Mockingbird anid Yuccaz aloifolia, 167; Loomis on California Water Birds, 168; Publicationis Received, 169.
GENERAL NOTES.- Briinnich's Murre at Cape Charles, Virginia, 171; Ihe Parasitic Jaeger near Cleve- lanid, Ohio, 171 ; Puffinus tenuirostris, off San Diego, California, 171 The Skull of the Young Cor- morant, 172; Clangula hyemalis at Sani Diego, Californiia, 172; Occurrence of the Great White Heron at Escondido, California, 172; Note on the Flexor zalluzcis brevis in the Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax naviuzs), 172. Porzana noveboracensis near Ottawa, Canada, 172; Crynmofhilus full- carius in Maine, 173; Crex crex in, Maine, 173; Baird's Sandpiper in Michigan, 174; Westem
Sandpiper (Ereunetes occidentalis) more abundant than the Semipalmated (E.fiusilles), 174; Wood- peckers' Tongues- a Plea for Aid, 174; Pinicola enucleator in Westchester County, N. Y., 175; The Pinie Grosbeak at Poughkeepsie, N. V., 175; The Pine Grosbeak (P. enucleator) in New Jersey, 175; Ablnormal Plumage of a Pine Grosbeak, 176; The Americani Crossbill at Sea, 176; Harris's Sparrow in Spring Dress 11i Autumn, 176; A Brown Thrasher (HFarfiorhynchks rufus) in M1assachusetts in Winter, 176; A few Notes fronl Mainie, 177; Three Winter Notes from Lonlgwood, Mass., 178; Bird Notes from Erie County, New York, 178 ; Virginia Notes, 179; On Birds reported as rare in (:ook County, Ill., 179; Additions to the Avifauna of Tennessee, I8i; Sundry Notes, 182.
CORRESPONDENCE - Some Questions of Nomenclature, 183; A Question of Nomenclature, 190; 'Ord's Zo6logy' Again, I92; Chen hyperborea and C. nivais, 195.
NOrES AND NEWS.- Obituary, Dr. Willard Lorraine Naris, 193; The Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, i93; The Michigan Ornithological Club, 194; New Edition of Ridgways ' Manual of North American Birds,' 194: ' T'he Feather,' 195; The Seebohm collection of Birds, I95; The Field Col- umbian Museum Expedition to Africa, i96.
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Boys WILL BE BOYS " How often has this expression been used in extenuation of their mischievous propensities ! Boys are naturally active, and if they have not the inclination or the op- portunity to expend their store of mental and physical energy in some interesting and profitable enmployment, we shall be sure to find them busily occupied in working out some little scheme by which they hope to derive satisfaction at the expense of their play-
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mates, their neighbors, or some dumb animal. If a boy is to relinquish such occupations we must direct his energies into another channel by giving him a taste for something better. Teach him to play a game of cricket, or to swim; let him have a camera, and show him how to take a photo- graph; give him a sketch-book, and cultivate a taste for the reproduction of the beautiful in nature and art; or make him a present of a book of scienitific recreations. Among such works probably none will be found so fascinating to a
boy as those whiclh treat of natural history. Let him once ac- quire a taste for collecting, preserving, and studying natural history objects, and he has a hobby that will keep him out of mischief; give him healthy employment for mind and body, and occupation for all seasons of the year, both at home and in the field.
It is with a desire to cultivate such a taste, and to assist our boys (and our girls too for that matter) in the varied employ- ments which constitute the "labor of love " of the true naturalist that these pages are written. I was once a boy myself, and well do I remember the many difficulties and disappointments I experienced while endeavoring to make a useful collection of natural objects-difficulties and disappointments which might
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have been to a great extent obviated by the perusal of a popular yet scientific guide to the various departments of natural history.
In presenting the following pages to my readers, I do not hope, nor shall I attempt, to convert them into full-blown naturalists. Many years of the most careful observation, com- bined with much patient work on the part of the student would be necessary to produce such a result. My only aim is to induce my readers to make a start, and to give them such a general outline of natural history as may form a safe founda- tion for the future study of any branch of the science that they may desire to follow.
The scope of this volume is large compared with its size. It includes a brief survey of the animal kingdom, with numer- ous hints on the collection, preservation, and classification of specimens. Many objects which are not generally studied by young collectors are here considered as worthy of a drawer in the young naturalist's cabinet. Thus the reader is made acquainted with the fact that the seaside is not merely a col lecting ground for shells and weeds, but that almost every overturned stone between the tide- marks reveals a host of living beings which, although less conspicuous, will repay the time spent in their study. The vegetable kingdom is dealt with in a similar manner. Then follows
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a short chapter on the collection and arrangement of minerals and fossils.
It is hoped that the detailed descriptions given for the con- struction of the necessary apparatus and the methods of using it, and the abundance of illustrations, will render this work a thoroughly practical guide to the young collector.
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