BIRD BOOKS 



BY MRS. OLIVE THORNE MILLER 



THE FIRST BOOK OF BIRDS 



With many Illustrations, including eight full-page colored plates. 

 Sc^uare i2mo, $i.oo. School Edition^ 60 cents, net, postpaid. 



" Charming series of chapters on the life, dress, habits, qualities, travels, lan- 

 guage, and other peculiarities of the little feathered creatures. The book will 

 interest young people in the study of birds and stimulate them to further study." 

 — Boston Herald. 



THE SECOND BOOK OF BIRDS 



Bird Families. With many Illustrations, including 8 full-page 

 colored plates. Square i2mo, $1.00, net ; postage, 10 cents. 

 " This book supplements and extends Mrs. Miller's ' First Book of Birds' by 

 delightful studies of well-known bird families to the number of twenty-nine. It 

 is written in a way to interest boys and girls as well as to instruct." — Educa- 

 tional Keviexv. 



UPON THE TREE-TOPS 



With ten Illustrations by J. Carti:r Ukard. i6mo, 51.25 

 " Bird individualities are studied with minute care, and every little manifestation 

 of character is dwelt upon in a way that brings the reader at once into sympathetic 

 relation with tlie very liunian ways of the birds." — The Book Buyer, New York. 



LITTLE BROTHERS OF THE AIR 



i6mo, $1.25 



" In this book the autlinr tells of kingbirds, thrashers, pewecs, bluebirds, 

 thrushes, blue jays, bobolinks, robins, and even crows, bringing us into closer ac- 

 quaintance witii these little brothers of the air." — Lowell Times. 



A BIRD-LOVER IN THE WEST 



i6mo. 51.25 

 " The chapters detail the experiences of three seasons spent resjiectively in Utah, 

 Colorado, and S(nithern Ohio. They are bright, piquant narratives, embodying 

 the noteworthy incidents occurring in her observation of Western birds." — The 

 Dial, Chicago. 



BIRD-WAYS 



i6mo, 51.25. Also in KniCKsiDi-. .School Lii'.rarv, 60 cents, net. 



" The author gives the result of her own observation of birds, cither in the 

 natural open-air life, or in tiie mild captivity in wliicli they become her intimate 

 companions. ... Its fresh and simple style and pleasant aninuition of detail 

 render further praise unnecessary." — Philadelphia-American. 



IN NESTING TIME 



i6mo, 51.25 

 " A record of careful and most sympathetic observations of bird-life and habit, 

 by a genuine lover of nature. It is a truly charming chronicle. . . . Few closer 

 or fuller studies of our song-birds have been made than are containeil in this 

 volume." — A^. Y. Tribune. 



Houghton, Mifflin & Co», Boston and New York 



