he fully found out that the text was the most worthless trash ever
foisted on a torpid public. Nevertheless, the book held some useful
things; first, a list of the bird names; second, some thirty vile
travesties of Audubon and Wilson's bird portraits.

These were the birds thus maligned:

Duck Hawk Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Sparrow Hawk Bobolink
White-headed Eagle Meadow Lark
Great Horned Owl Bluejay
Snowy Owl Ruffed Grouse
Red-headed Woodpecker Great Blue Heron
Golden-winged Woodpecker Bittern
Barn-swallow Wilson's Snipe
Whip-poor-will Long-biller Curlew
Night Hawk Purple Gallinule
Belted Kingfisher Canada Goose
Kingbird Wood Duck
Woodthrush Hooded Merganser
Catbird Double-crested Cormorant
White-bellied Nuthatch Arctic Tern
Brown Creeper Great Northern Diver
Bohemian Chatterer Stormy Petrel
Great Northern Shrike Arctic Puffin
Shore Lark Black Guillemot

[Illustration: "He already knew the Downy Woodpecker"]