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and Human Music. Harper's Monthly, August, 1902, vol. cv. No. dcxxvii. 

 171. -- Win HI I.L, CHAKLHS A. Evolution of Bird-Song, Adam & 

 Charles Ulat-k. London, 1896. 



POPULAR BIRD BOOKS. 



BASKKTT. .1. N. The Story of the Birds, D. Appleton & Co., New 

 Ycik. is; >7. BURROUGHS. JOHN. Wake-Kobin ; Fresh Fields ; Birds 

 and I'oets: Locusts and Wild Honey; Pepacton ; Winter Sunshine; 

 S-ns and Seasons: Riverby, Hotig'hton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 

 CHAPMAN. FKANK M. Bird Life (popular colored ed.), 1902; Bird 

 Studies with a Camera, 1900; Handbook of Birds of Eastern North 

 America. I'.XrJ. 1). Appleton & Co, New York. -- ECKSTORM, FANNIE 

 HARDY. The Bird Book, D. C. Heath & Co., Boston, 1901; The 

 Woodpeckers. Houghton. Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1901. ELLIOT, D. 

 (J. Shore Birds, 1895; Game Birds. 1897 ; Wild Fowl, 1898, Francis 

 P. Harper. New York. -- HERKICK, FKANCIS H. Home Life of Wild 

 I!irds. G. P. Putnam & Sons, New York, 1901. JOB, HEKBERT K. 

 Annni"- the Water-Fowl. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1902. 

 - KKKLEK. CHAKLES A. Bird Notes Afield, Elder & Shepard, San 

 Franei-i.-o. !'.'. KEYSER. LEANDER S. Birds of the Rockies, A. C. 

 Mi-Clurg & Co. , Chicago, 1902. LORD, W T . R. Birds of Oregon and 

 Washington, J. K. Gill Company. Portland, Oregon, revised edition, 

 IDOL'. MERRIAM, F. A. A-Birding on a Bronco, Houghton, Mifflin & 

 Co., Boston. 1 si Hi. MILLER. OLIVE THORNE. Bird-Ways: In Nesting 

 Time; Little Brothers of the Air; A Bird-Lover in the West ; Upon 

 ili.- Tree-Tops ; First Book of Birds ; Second Book of Birds, Houghton, 

 Mitllm iV Co., Boston. - - TORREY, BRADFORD. Birds in the Bush ; A 

 Rambler's Lease; The Foot-Path Way; Everyday Birds. Houghton, 

 Mifllin A: Co.. Boston. - - SANDYS and VAN DYKE. Upland Game 

 IJinU. M.H-millan Co.. New York. 18D2. VAN DYKE, T. S. Game 

 liirdx at Home. Fords. Howard & Hulbert. New York. 1895. A\ T RIGHT, 

 M.\r. ML <)-.<;ooi>. Hirdcrat't, 2d ed.. Macmillan Co., New York, 1809. 

 \\'I:K;HI . MAI-.I.L ( >s<;ooi>. and Dr. ELLIOTT COUES. Citizen Bird, 2d 

 ed.. Macmillan Co.. New York. 1900. 



USE OF THE KEYS. 



If you an- a ben inner wit h a bird to identify, and do not know the 

 orders iiitu which birds an- divided, ^<> first to the Key to Orders, 

 pp. 1. -. If your l)ird is a plover, you may not be sure whether it is 

 Haxsrd \\illi 'be water or land birds; so bcuin with the Key to 

 \\aici- IJinK This key. as all others in the book, is dichotomous, 

 that is to say, ai every step the birds arc divided into two classes, 



which have or have not a givCD character- -birds are black or the v 

 arc in.t black, they have crests or they have not crests, their feet are 

 \\cbbcd or iln-ir led a iv m.t \\ebbcd. At each step of the key a 

 number and it-, prime are u>cd tn set apart the two classes. In the 

 i Of the Key In Order- ,,f Water Birds the firM two classes arc 

 bird> \\ hicb have 



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