A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United State...
Chamberlain, Montague![A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada, Vol. 2](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/247/24714956/CHSBZCOP0324714956.jpg)
Excerpt from A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada, Vol. 2: Based on Nuttall's ManualA more natural disposition of the subject, than the classification I have now adopted, would have been per haps more gratifying to the learned, but less useful in practice, and more perplexing to the general reader. A numerical system, (binary, quinary, 8m.) however curi ous and philosophical, yet intricate in its ultimate rela ...