Identifier: auntmaysbirdtalk00poyn (find matches)
Title: Aunt May's bird talks
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Poyntz, F. M., Mrs. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Educational publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Chapter III. On the next Saturday we find our littleparty clustered around Aunt May under theirfavorite tree, with the never-failing lunch-basket near at hand, eagerly awaiting hersecond talk about their feathered friends. When they were all comfortably settled andeach little face upturned to hers their teacherbegan: 11 In our first lesson on birds we learned, Ihope, something about how they come intoexistence, the structure of their bodies, andgained a little general information on the sub-ject. Our next step in this study is to findout to what tribe or family they belong; for 25 26 AUNT MAYS BIRD TALKS.
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AUNT MAYS BIRD TALKS. 27 birds have different families, names, habitsand colors, just as do the races of men. Youknow in your Geography you have read ofwhite, red, brown, black, and yellow men,whose manner and modes of living are verydifferent; this is true also of birds. Those whohave made a study of birds have divided thewhole bird creation into six different orders.I shall try to give you a simple explanationof this arrangement, so that when you growolder and can pursue your studies alone, youwill have a chart to guide you in your work.11 First, then, the six orders of birds are :I. Birds of Prey.II. Perching Birds. III. Climbing Birds. IV. Gallinaceous Birds.V. Wading Birds. VI. Swimming Birds. 28 AUNT MAYS BIRD TALKS. 11 As we propose for the present to studyonly our home birds, those which live andbuild their nests in our middle states, we shallneed but one order, the Perching Birds, thosewhich perch or roost in trees ; our only excep-tion will be in favor of the Woodpecker, whi

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