A BOOK LIST 



For getting acquainted with birds, we no more need books than 

 we need books for getting acquainted with people. One bird, if 

 rightty known, — as with one person understood, — will teach us 

 more than we can learn by reading. But since no one has time to 

 learn for himself more than a few things about many birds, or 

 many things about a few birds, it is pleasant and companionable 

 and helpful to have even a second-hand share in what other peo- 

 ple have learned. For myself, I like to watch both the bird in the 

 bush through my own eyes and the bird in the book through the 

 eyes of some other observer. So it seems but fair to share the 

 names of books that have interested me in one way or another 

 during the preparation of my own. If it seems to anyone a short 

 hst, I can but say that I do not know all the good books about 

 birds, and therefore many (and perhaps some of the best) have 

 been omitted. If it seems to anyone a long list, I would suggest 

 that, if it contains more than you may find in your pubhc library, 

 or more than you care to put on your own shelves, or more than 

 can be secured for the school library, the list may be helpful for 

 selection — perhaps some of them will be where you can find and 

 use them. Certain of them, as their titles indicate, are devoted ex- 

 clusively to birds; and others include other outdoor things as well 

 — as happens many a time when we start out on a bird-quest of 

 our own, and find other treasures, too, in plenty. 



If I could have but two of the books on the list, they would be 

 ''The Story of Opal," the nature-word of a child who well may 

 lead us, and "Handbook of Nature-Study," the nature-word of a 

 wise teacher of teachers. 



BOOKS, BULLETINS, AND LEAFLETS 



American Birds, Studied, and Photographed from Life. Lovell 

 FiNLEY. Charles Scribner's Sons. 



Attracting Birds about the Home. Bulletin No. 1: The National 

 Association of Audubon Societies. 



Bird, The. C. Willia.m Beebe. Henry Holt and Company. 



Bird Book. Fannie Hardy Eckst.orm. D. C. Heath & Co. 



Bird Houses and How to Build Them. Ned Dearborn. U.S. 

 Dept. of Agriculture; Farmer's Bulletin 609. 



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