Copyright, i8S8, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1888. 



The Crow ( Corvus a^ucricanus (And.) ). (After Audubon's Plate). Frontispifxe. 



The Crow. "3 



Alexander Wilson.— 11 "6 



Birds of the Primeval World.— I. (illustrated) nS 



The Audubon Knights. (Illustrated.) By Etlu'ldn-d Brcczf Barry 121 



Gold Beauty. By HcnrlcUa Christian Wright _ ... 125 



The Audubon Note Book : 



MF:MiiERSHiP Returns 126 



■ Birds on the Increase 126 



The Poet's Appeal 126 



The ' ' Magazine " as an Enuc.A.TOR 126 



The Audubon Monument 127 



Useful and Entertaining Boolcs. 



THE FOLLOWING WORKS ON' NA TUBAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMENDED TO 



THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles x\bout Home, Abbott. %\ 50 Insects Injurious to Vegetation, Harris 4 00 



A. O. U. Check List of N. A. Birds 3 00 Intelligence of Animals, 54 illus., Menaut. . . i 00 



American Bird Fancier 50 John Burroughs' Works: Wake Robin; Win- 

 Antelope and Deer of America, Caton 2 50 ter Sunshine;' Birds and Poets; Locusts and 



Audubon's Journals: Compiled by his widow. Wild Honey; Signs and Seasons; each. vol. i 50 



edited by J. G. Wilson (with steel plate en- Mammals of New York, paper f 4 ; cloth 5 00 



graving of the great naturalist after I nman's Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard i 25 



painting); octavo 2 00 Manual of Vertebrates, Jordan 2 50 



Baird's Birds of North America 30 00 Minot's Land and Game Birds 3 00 



Bird Notes, from Forest and Stream 75 Native Song Birds 75 



Birds and Wild Animals Wilson i 75 Naturalist's Assistant, Kingsley i 50 



Birds Nesting, IngersoU i 25 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 PracticalTaxidermycS: Home Decoration, Batty i 50 



Birds and their Haunts 3 00 Shore Birds 15 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 50 Taxidermy Without a Teacher, Manton. ... 50 



Common Objects of the Seashore 50 Taxidermists' Manual, Brown i 00 



Coues' Check List of North American Birds. . 3 00 Taxidermists' Manual, illus.. Brown 50 



Game Water Birds of Atlantic Coast, Roosevelt 2 00 Thoreau's Works: Excursions in Field and 



Guide to the Study of Insects, Packard 5 00 Forest; Walden, or Life in the Woods; The 



Ilolden's Book of Birds, paper 25 Maine Woods; Early Spring in Massachu- 



Insect World, Figuier i 50 setts; Summer; each vol \ 50 



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