A very different volume from the exhaustive "Dictionary of Birds," by Professor Alfred Newton, which ranks as "the most valuable and interesting contribution ever made to the subject" of Ornithology, but one which may well hold its own place beside that work on the student's table or precede it on its shelves. It is rarely complete, more so than any book of its class published, and the descriptions, though brief, are clear and, whenever necessary, illustrated by drawings made specially for this work. The Scheme of Classification is of great value to the Student.
With about 150 Illustrations, Charts, Index, etc., and an outline showing the Scheme of Classification adopted
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_A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game and Water Birds..._ BY Mabel Osgood Wright
[Illustration] "_Attractive, interesting and helpful, and should be in the library of every lover of birds._"--_Science_ [Illustration]
Author of "Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts," "Citizen Bird," "Four-footed Americans and their Kin."
With Eighty Plates by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES
"It is more than an accurate and comprehensive description of all the birds one is likely to find in an extended search. It is also an introduction to them and their haunts, so enticingly written that the reader at once falls in love with them, and becomes an enthusiast in their pursuit. * * * The scientific part of the work is equally well done."--_Evening Bulletin_, Philadelphia.
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[Illustration] _SCENES FROM BIRD-LIFE IN PLAIN ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS..._
Mabel O. Wright and Dr. Elliott Coues Profusely Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
Heart of Nature Series. Cloth, Crown 8vo, $1.50 Net
"An extremely praiseworthy attempt to teach children about our domestic birds, by encouraging them to observe the living creatures rather than the inanimate 'specimen.' More than a hundred accurate and spirited illustrations add greatly to the attractiveness of the volume."--_The Nation_
"_By far the best bird book for boys and girls yet published in America._"--C. H. M. in _Science_
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