LISTS OF BOOKS. 275 



CouES, Birds of the Colorado Valley. |4.00. 

 CouES, Birds of the Northwest. $4.00. 



Two old books, but still high authorities on the regions covered. 

 Corey, Key to the Water Birds of Florida. .$1.75. 

 Samuels, Birds of New England and Adjacent States. 

 Stearns and Coues, New England Bird Life. 2 vols. 



Two books of good value, but displaced by later and better illus- 

 trated works. 



The following standard works are either very large, rare, 

 costly, or highly technical works such as the ordinary pur- 

 chaser would not care to buy. They are invaluable in their 

 place, and can be consulted in any large library. It should be 

 remembered that the older works, like Audubon and Wilson, 

 use a different nomenclature, so that sometimes a bird will not 

 bear the same name as to-day ; also that many new species 

 have been discovered since these books were published. 



Audubon's Birds ; colored plates of all species. 



Wilson's Ornithology. 



Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwat, Land Birds (3 vols.) and Water Birds 



(2 vols.). 

 Bendire's Life Histories of North American Birds. 2 vols. 



This work was left unfinished by the death of the author, but the 

 part completed is an acknowledged authority on the habits and 

 nests of the Hawks, Grouse, Woodpeckers, Flycatchers, etc. 

 Colored plates of eggs only. 

 Ridgway's Manual of North American Birds. 

 Coues' s Key to North American Birds. 



These two are the standard technical works on North American birds, 

 but are not intended for field work, and contain nothing about the 

 habits of birds. 

 Maynard, Birds of Eastern North America. 



A large and valuable work, fully illustrated, and with ample notes 

 on the habits of birds. 



11. Books that treat of birds descriptively and infor- 

 mally ; good books to draw from the public library for home 

 reading. 



