elir ! 

 thc 

 Iht: ' 

 SOll' 



cai.j .. .; . • 

 in doiii;^. In 

 excellent rtpro 



some fltsii .11)1 1 air iiao 

 !cnci., sl.'Mild talk ahoul 

 .[> i j i.riMu; 1 icm and tlicir ways with 

 10 risiiig goneiation. This, so (Vir as I 

 at haml, yor. liavt aclniirablv snccedod 

 mcnt von also on your plates whiohan- 

 r tiie'bir'ls. I find it difficiilt to undci- 



Stand howvou cau aüord to seil so hauosome a work at so 

 modifpt«' ^ iincc 



T!ii.- IJM..K ^ -.r.M^ ,1.. ,1.1 ....■,.< ......i. .. iiövel, and tht )"•■•- 



fei-ls an assnrance, all the timc, thnt the informatiou cor. . 

 is scieiitifiL-ially mciirate. The illustrations art rxccUcn; 

 givc a clcar iflea of thc form and color ol'the hirds rtprfsentc! 



Mr. Nehrliiit; showsthat siibdtted l)Ul inteusc ciithusiT«ii 

 which is always evidenceof "staving power", an as- 

 tj.ar with him, ornithology is not a "lad", Imt a life st'.ir 



' Tbc-re is no doidit that hisliooV will tako its ^pi.u 

 ; the Standard populär works on blofrrapbical onji 



Pbo. ,. . V.001CE, Directoroilhe Vermont Agriciilturai 

 Bxperiment Station, anthor of tlie excelleutwork " Bird Migra- 

 tion oft: > "■ • - ■ ■■ ''"'•••" writcs: 



X ^••, to ßvtthisfivst installment r>r a 



^7<-,r; :, :u ,.i.i Hg exiK-ctins I have exainined it 



wii, t^ircst and carc and niy cxpectatiotis I find liavc 



bet 1 I kacw Irom the letters 1 liad receivtd from jjrou 



tli.ii iioch abiliry inexpreising your ideas ahout bird- 



life . , work von have l'airlv surpassed yourself. 1 üke 



thc idca yt thc colorod plates, and thcir cxecntiou leaM:> 

 notkiug to 'x- dcsired in Ihat line. 



* 



Pkof. D. S. Jordan', the celebratcd autbor of tlic "Manual 

 \^ericbratcs", President of the üniversity of Indiana. 



liloomigton. Ind., writes: 



Part I of your book on "North American Birds' is very 



chamiitigly w'ritten, and I find the accounts botli aocnrate aud 



interestiuK. Your book will W gladly welcomed by all friends 



of the birds. The plates are very satistactory 

 « » 



Mrs. Mary Treat, of Vineland. N. Y., author of an excel- 

 lent book on iosects injnrioiis to vegtlation, ranking also v - 

 Iiigli as n b'uanist and cnlhusiastic lovcr of birds, writrs : 



idabic dcla-' h.-!S prevented the aoknowledgemeni 



aiT'g woik — 'iN'orth-Amerioan Birds", Part 1 — 



iintU now. The illustrations are s-uperb. Prof. Ridgway's 



hiiinmingbird is a perfcct gom. And I have ijcen greatly ir,- 



sted in the text. It is everything that er.uld bc desiroi 



Mr. E. K. Tchker of Providence, Fla., wric 



Vour ihoiightsare poetically exprt-ssed and your Mngii.-.i.'» 



leautiful! Furtherniore this is not in n fcw scatttrtil 



s mencts. but tlie wliole Part frora beginning to end scenus al- 



nidst a proi^t poein. 1 tliink this bt)ok will carry your uame 



Mr. Frkd. II. !lii,f), Ol thc ChiLago i'ubUc LiDrary writes.; 



r have examined the Part of "Nehrling's Ntjrth Amciic ., 

 Hirds" which yoH left with me a fcw days igo. The i' 

 tioi'S cxeciltcd in cliromo-lilhography ave bcautiful Fp';- 

 ofthat art and tue typographicid appcnrance of the v 

 excellent. The wellknown rejmtation ofthc author 

 lovers ofthc fcathcred trilxrs, i.« a sufficicut guarantee tiiji m. 

 work will bc a valuablc coutribution to .Vracrican ornithology 



loKEST AND Strkam", Ncw Yotk, thc Uirgcst aod mosi 

 valnablepaper oiioiit-door Sports in this eoantry. July 4, 188;.' 

 says : i 



In this publication we have wbat has long Ijeen called for, 

 a populär and intercsting natural history of North An!--- 

 birds, v.-ntterv siniply. but in a very pleasing style, ai. 

 trated by colored lit'hographs after th-.; best artisis, an.' 

 hiirhest style of art. Mr .'Colirling is no Compiler; his ac. 

 aiice with the birds dcscribcd has bcen fnade in thc ncU! 

 he has (ievoted himself to loving Observation of 1 

 chaiacters and habits, and being possessed of a ha 

 style, channing in its casy simpboity, bi> descnpi 

 fail to be populär with young i>eople, wln.'iii it is 

 ohjectio iospire with a tiendcrregard Ibr thctcathcu.: .....ir-i i.u^ 

 'thcgrovc. 



The work docs not profess to bc stnctly scientific. V. 'f 

 intcnded rathcr for the intelligent fricnd of natnre, bu 

 samc time, so fnr ,-is we ean judgt from llic singlu T'art ^> 

 bc fore us. thc author descrves great praise tbr thc CKceUeukA. ot 

 his biographics so far as tliey go. 



The plates are good cxamplcs of the lithographer's skill. 



Itishigh tinietl'.ata populär, .ittractive work on North 

 American ornithology should l>c piiblisbed, and vtry rr"-^' -^ 

 icided to the attractiveiiess of tbis \..-ork by its iilusliat' 



So far as cau \ye judgcd from the P.trt which has 

 ; red tljc-rc is uo othev iiopnlar work on the subjcct üi 

 ,1 il merit.nor, indeed,comparal)le with it,aud wecou: 

 prtdict for it a fair measure of its destrved popularity. 



Thc v.'clikm-wu American poet Oll birds, flov.-crs and bini 

 song!-. I>R. \V. L. SmiEMAKEK, Georgetown, ü. C. writes: 



As yet I have merely glanced at ihi.iPart, and noted its frnc 

 illustrations, its large, clear, e.\e-comforting typogiaphy ; 

 its thick firtii, whit..- papei , and iti general cxcellence of "makc- 

 up'. itsiutei-nal nieriis— its literary and ,-csthetic qualities— 

 ilo not Ik-Uc ils exLerii.i! ones. I am very suie. The work, wheii 

 completed, is evideiitly destincd to be a credit and an honor to 

 the city of Mllwaukee ; "a thing < f lieauty' cmd conscipicntlv 

 "a ioy iorevcr''. 



•Viii „. , „iioMis of the Nantical Almanac Office, Bureau 

 Navigation, Navy Department, Washington, D. C, writes: 



Mr.Ncb,- ■ ■: ■" ^' • "■ ' " '■'■ 



Iiappilv. a : ; 

 thi ; .' • 



g; 



\ onug, migration and ncutD to bis 



The Adk", the excellent periodical of American Ornilho- ' 

 Ifigist's Union ( July-uuml-ier 18.59) says: 



Sorae time siocc (Auk, July, 1386, p. 415) we called attea- 

 tion to an announcement of a projjectus of a work in the 

 Germanlangiiage o n North Aniericau birds, by Mr. II. Nehrhiig, 

 an Active Mcraljer of the A. O. U.. and the author o!" 

 papers on North American birds, inelnding a pajier on t ; 

 ,,' ,. uth^rn Texas-, publislied in the 'BuUct'i - *' < : 

 I :' liological Club, and various local lists ai 

 M, 1 ..-r.riiif.vr.iihological journalj.. Tt no\ 



/'eation of the work has Ik;. un, aiu! 

 i-.h, undertbe title "North Xaiericaii : 

 as weil' as in tVernuin. We have already received Part I '.l 

 botheditions, and find it a work we lieartily coiumend, n^ 

 populär trcatlsc on our birds. 



The bi' graphies are based primarily on the anthors ov\ . 



iw.l' ■ -v: -vts, aud are writteu iuagraph'.' "-■■ ti.i".!/ n.. 



The 1)est authorities, ho • 

 br.iial ri.iUer is brie'', aud ; 



phics. rhe coUircd iliu.-i 

 .ibk, considcring the low 

 li« work, wiule Lhi paijer aiid typography are i xcetlcnl. \N' 

 trnst the work wil! meet with the suecess it so well ik«rvcs. 



