Price of Portfolios, each, $1.25; with the Manual, $2; the three Portfolios, with the Manual, $4.
"His chronicles are full of the enthusiasm of the born naturalist. He gossips about the affairs of birds in a delightful strain, making 'Bird-Life' an irresistible invitation to a fuller study of ornithology. It is not dry details he offers, but pretty stories, biographical sketches of interesting families--all sorts of bird-lore that proves most enchanting reading."--_Chicago Evening Post._
_Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America_
With Keys to the Species; Descriptions of their Plumages, Nests, etc.; their Distribution and Migrations. By Frank M. Chapman. With nearly 200 Illustrations. 12mo. Library Edition, cloth. $3; Pocket Edition, flexible morocco, $3.50.
"A book so free from technicalities as to be intelligible to a fourteen-year-old boy, and so convenient and full of original information as to be indispensable to the working ornithologist.... As a handbook of the birds of eastern North America it is bound to supersede all other works."--_Science._
By John Rowley, Chief of the Department of Taxidermy in the American Museum of Natural History. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $2.
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By John Henry Comstock, Professor of Entomology in Cornell University. With illustrations by Anna Botsford Comstock, member of the Society of American Wood Engravers. 12mo. Library Edition, cloth, $2.50; Teachers' and Students' Edition, $1.50.
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By Leander S. Keyser. Appletons' Home-Reading Books. 12mo. Cloth, 60 cents net.