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A Monthly Journal Published by The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Bird Lore, Volume I--1899 — Part 198

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Bird Lore, Volume I--1899 — Part 198

Containing original and instructive articles of interest to all animal owners, including serial and short stories, and interesting miscellany by well-known writers.

Bird Lore, Volume I--1899 — Part 198

Published at the Headquarters of the Society

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ---------------------

The articles and illustrations are excellent and forcible in their teachings.--_Journal of Education_, Boston.

Our Animal Friends equals in beauty of exterior and valuable contents the most widely circulated periodicals of the times.--_The North American_, Philadelphia.

The magazine is admirably edited and illustrated, and contains matter of great general interest.--_Forest and Stream_, New York.

Should be read by every boy and girl in the land, and there are many children of larger growth that would derive benefit from its pages.--_Spirit of the Times._

As entertaining as it is instructive.--_Philadelphia Inquirer._

No publication in this country so admirably combines exact scientific information with racy and refined literary matter.--_Yorkshire_ (England) _Weekly Post_.

Lovers of our wild and domestic animals, young people especially, will find in it much that is readable and instructive.--_Review of Reviews._

It is well printed and illustrated, and original in matter.--_Sunday-School Times_, Philadelphia.

A good magazine for every home where there are children, and its truths are just as good for those of mature life.--_Chicago Inter Ocean._

A publication on the trees of the United States, illustrated by actual specimens of the woods

"A work where plant life does the writing and which no one can read without thinking."--G. A. Parker, Esq., Hartford, Conn.

"I know of nothing so well calculated to make young people fall in love with trees."--Prin. E. H. Russell, Worcester, Mass.

PREPARATIONS OF WOODS FOR STEREOPTICON AND MICROSCOPE, AND WOODEN CARDS FOR FANCY AND BUSINESS PURPOSES

Send for circulars, and enclose 10 cents for sample specimens from _American Woods_.

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A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds. By Frank M. Chapman, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Zoölogy, American Museum of Natural History; author of "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America."