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Ridg way's works, it is, in my opinion, the 

 most serviceable manual for beginners that has 

 yet been issued. I refer to Frank M. Chap- 

 man's Handbook of Birds of Eastern North 

 America — library edition, $8 ; pocket edition, 

 $3.50. Bird Life, by the same author, with 

 seventy-five colored plates, $5. These valua- 

 ble works contain a description of every avian 

 species found east of the Mississippi River 

 from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, 

 and is embellished with over two hundred 

 excellent and lifelike pictures of birds. The 

 descriptions are written by a bird enthusiast, 

 so that the work, scientific as it is, is far from 

 being a dry treatise. 



Mr. Chapman's handbook has another de- 

 cided advantage : it is of a convenient size to be 

 carried with you in your jaunts afield. Strap 

 a haversack about your shoulders, stow in it 

 this manual, a good opera glass, and an appe- 

 tizing luncheon, and then you may hie forth 

 early in the morning, feeling that you are amply 

 equipped for an all-day ramble in the choice- 

 est haunts of your feathered favorites. With 

 the book and the glass you will be able to 

 identify the birds on the spot, while the lunch- 

 eon — well, you will need no special lecture on 

 its desirability. 



