cially mistakes regarding habits and identification. It will include 

 the recent and most approved terms in nomenclature, and will, in 

 short, bring down to date the ornithology of the area considered. 

 All of the descriptions of plumages have been rewritten and will be 

 found to be an improvement over those of the original work. There 

 will also be included the latest determinations regarding the sexual 

 and individual changes, as well as the changes resulting from age, 

 so far elaborated as the limits of a " handbook " will permit. 



A description of all known nests and eggs has been prepared 

 especially for the present work. 



But the crowning merit of the descriptions will lie in the fact that 

 they are expressed in such simple, well-known and untechnical terms that 

 any schoolboy may understand them without the aid of a glossary. 



Keeping fully in mind the need of a popular and untechnical 

 book on American ornithology, Mr. Chamberlain has added to the 

 merits the original work possessed in this respect by giving the names 

 by which the birds are best known to the people, in addition to the 

 vernacular names used by naturalists. The scientific names used 

 are those recently adopted by the American Ornithological Union. 



Of the original work by Nuttall everything of value and interest 

 has been retained, including all of Nuttall's delightful descriptions of 

 bird-life, a feature of the original which has had much to do with its 

 popularity. Only those portions which have been rendered valueless 

 by recent discoveries and determinations are omitted. 



The present work will be found to be more fully illustrated than 

 the original, and throughout its preparation everything possible has 

 been done to thoroughly adapt it to the needs of the time and to 

 make it a convenient and useful manual for the household and for the 

 student who can carry with him only a work of moderate size. 



Mr. Chamberlain was for several years Associate Editor of " The 

 Auk," and is now the editor of " The Ornithological Club," the 

 leading amateur club of America. He is also a member of the 

 " Comite International Ornithologique " of Vienna. He has already 

 contributed to ornithological literature " A Catalogue of the Birds of 

 New Brunswick," " A Catalogue of Canadian Birds," " A Systematic 

 Table of Canadian Birds," a translation with notes of Hagerup's 

 monograph on Greenland birds, and numerous articles published in 

 " Forest and Stream," " Ornithologist and Oologist," " Canadian 

 Sportsman and Naturalist," " Science," etc. 

 51^= See specimen pages annexed. 



FOR SALE BY 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION. N. Y. 



