Copyright, ]888, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. Entered at New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter. 



CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1888. 



The Pileated Woodpecker (Cco/'hhrris pih-atus ( Linn.) ). (After Audubon's Plate). Fronti.SI'IECK. 



The Pileated Woodpecker 135 



Alexander Wilson.— II 137 



Interesting Birds. By G. B. G i3<) 



Birds of the Primeval World.— I !. (illustrated) 140 



Charley's Wonderful Journeys.— IX. (Illustrated.) By C. F. Amcry 142 



Wrens in a Coffee Pot 14S 



A Trip to the Yosemite Valley. By ll. s. M 150 



Birds in Disguise 151 



A Visit to Audubon's Home 151 



The Audubon Noto Book: 



Membership Returns 15c 



Robin Lothario 152 



.SONO OF THE WHIPI'OORWII.I 132 



A True Incident 153 



Swallows at Sea 153 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



TlfE FOLLOIVING WORKS ON NATURAL IflSTORY ARE RECOMMENDED 7 



THOSE IVTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. $1 50 Insects Injurious to Vegetation, Harris 4 00 



A. O. U. Check List of K. 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 I^oets; Locusts and 



Audubon's Journals: Compiled b}- his widow, Wild Honey; Signs and Seasons; each vol. i 50 



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



graving of the great naturalist after Inman's Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard r 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 Strcaiii 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 Practical Taxidermy & 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 Nortln American P-irds. . 3 00 Taxidermists' Manual, illus., Brown 50 



GameWater Birds of Atlantic Coast, liooscvcl I 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 i 50 



'Snid for our free rataloi^itc cf hooks, 7iieu/ioniiii^ -.vlicrc yon sa'tO litis. 



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