BY W. T. HORNADAY 



The American 

 Natural History 



Illustrated by 220 original drawings by Beard, Rungius, and Sawyer, 



and 100 photographs by Sanborn, Keller, and Underwood, and 



with numerous diagrams and maps. More than 400 



pages, double column, 5^x8 inches. $3.50 net 



" REAL NATURE STUDIES.— Mr. Hornaday's book is 

 as fascinating as it is pre-eminently useful. Here is practical 

 information conveyed in the most interesting way, with illus- 

 trative anecdote and curious instance, and here are endless 

 reproductions of photographs and drawings of animals, of the 

 most truthful and characteristic sort. . . . Under the system 

 of study set forth in this book, such ignorance may well give 

 way to thoroughly grounded knowledge, and to ardent and ever- 

 increasing interest in the subject. It is a boon which parents 

 and teachers ought to appreciate." — Tribune^ New York. 



" Professor Hornaday's style is nothing if not gracious and 

 enlivening. He is the reverse of pedantic, and he apparently 

 has striven to make the work as readable to the popular mind as 

 it is exact to the scientific." — Transcript^ Boston. 



"... An invaluable treatise on the higher animals of 

 North America. He writes with a fulness of knowledge that 

 is probably unequaled on this side of the Atlantic, and with an 

 enthusiasm that makes science 'as musical as Apollo's lute.' " 



— Herald^ New York. 



"A BEAUTIFUL BOOK.— It would be difficult to 

 place a more useful and more interesting book in the hands of a 

 boy. Instruction in general would be delightful if all instructors 

 and bookmakers could, like Mr. Hornaday, convey so vast an 

 amount of accurate information in so agreeable a form that the 

 study of the subject would be only a pastime." 



— Public Ledger^ Philadelphia. 



" The book is sure to become the standard book of natural 

 history in every intelligent family." — World To-day^ Chicago. 



" In this elaborate work, Mr. Hornaday has made a very 

 important contribution to the natural history of America, per- 

 haps the most important since the publication of Audubon's 

 ' Birds of America.' " — Picayune^ New Orleans. 



