Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History
=With Plates in Colors and Black and White, by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES, and Text Illustrations by TAPPAN ADNEY and ERNEST THOMPSON-SETON=
The text of the preceding edition has been thoroughly revised and much of it rewritten. The nomenclature and ranges of the latest edition of the "Check-List" of the American Ornithologists' Union have been adopted. Migration records from Oberlin, Ohio, Glen Ellyn, Ill., and Southeastern Minnesota, numerous nesting dates for every species, and many biographical references have been added; the descriptions of plumage emended to represent the great increase in our knowledge of this branch of ornithology; and, in short, the work has been enlarged to the limit imposed by true handbook size and brought fully up-to-date.
In addition to possessing all the features which made the old "Handbook" at once popular and authoritative, the new "Handbook" contains an Introduction of over 100 pages on "How to Study the Birds in Nature," which will be of the utmost value to all students of living birds.
The subjects of distribution, migration, song, nesting, color, food, structure and habit, intelligence, and allied problems are here treated in a manner designed to arouse interest and stimulate and direct original observation.
A Biographical Appendix, giving the titles to all the leading works and papers (including faunal lists) on the Birds of Eastern North America, shows just what has been published on the birds of a given region, a matter of the first importance to the local student.
_561 Pages. Cloth, $3.50 net. Flexible Morocco, $4.00 net_
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Twenty-four colored plates by Fuertes and Horsfall, illustrating male, female and immature plumages.
Three hundred and six pages of text treating of the color characters, field-marks, range, migration, haunts, songs, nest and eggs of each species.
_The book is an indispensable guide to every student of these, the "most beautiful, most abundant, and least known" of our birds._