BOOKS FOR NATURE LOVERS. 



Familiar Life in Field and Forest. 



By F. Schuyler Mathews. Uniform with " Familiar Flowers," " Familiar 

 Trees," and " Familiar Features of the Roadside." With many Illustrations. 

 i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 

 "The volume imparts to its readers just such solid information as the various subjects re- 

 quire. ... A perfect guide, and makes us better understand the wonders of creation." — New 

 York Times. 



OTHER BOOKS BY MR. MATHEWS. 



Familiar Trees and their Leaves. 



Illustrated with over 200 Drawings from Nature by the Author, and giving the 

 botanical names and habitat of each tree and recording the precise character and 

 coloring of its leafage. l2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



Familiar Features of the Roadside. 



With 130 Illustrations by the Author. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden. 



Illustrated with 200 Drawings by the Author. 

 $1.75 ; Pocket Edition, flexible morocco, $2.25. 



i2mo. Library Edition, cloth, 



The Art of Taxidermy. 



By John Rowley, Chief of the Department of Taxidermy in the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History. Illustrated. i2mo. Cloth, $2.00. 



"A perusal will scarcely fail to convince the reader that the art in question stands on a 

 higher level and is making more decided progress in America than in England. An excellent 

 volume." — Dr. R. Lydekker, in Nature. 



Insect Life. 



Bv John Henry Comstock, Professor of Entomology in Cornell University. 

 With Illustrations by Anna Botsford Comstock, member of the Society of Ameri- 

 can Wood Engravers. i2mo. Library Edition, cloth, $2.50 ; Teachers' and 

 Students' Edition, $1.50. 



"Any one who will go through the work with fidelity will be rewarded by a knowledge of 

 insect life which will be of pleasure and benefit to him at all seasons, and will give an increased 

 charm to the days or weeks spent each summer outside of the great cities. It is the best book 

 of its class which has yet appeared." — New York Mail and Express. 



Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America. 



With Keys to the Species ; Description of their Plumages, Nests, etc. ; their Dis- 

 tribution and Migrations. By Frank M. Chapman, Assistant Curator of Mam- 

 malogy and Ornithology in the American Museum of Natural History. With 

 nearly 200 Illustrations. i2mo. Library Edition, cloth, % 3.00 ; 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. 



B i r d = Lif e . Edition in Colors. 



A Study of our Common Birds. By Frank M. Chapman. Illustrated by 

 Ernest Seton Thompson. With 75 full-page plates in colors. Svo. Cloth, $5.00. 

 Also, plain edition, i2mo, cloth, $1.75. 



"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 inter- 

 esting families — all sorts of birdlore, that proves the most enchanting reading. A great advan- 

 tage in this work will be found in the beautifully colored illustrations, . . . which have received 

 the greatest care in preparation." — Chicago Evening Post. 

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