THE COUES CHECK LIST 



OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 



Second Edition, with a Dictionary of tie Scientific Haines, 



ONE VOLUME ROYAL OCTAVO, $3.00. 



THE STANDARD. 



Some Opinions of Reviewers. 



The treatment of some of the most essential points which should form the in- 

 itial training of the word-constructor and word-expounder is erroneous and mis- 

 leading . . . The lack of clear logic, incisive statement, and proper arrangement 

 in the process of derivation confronts one continually. — A. C. Merriam, in 

 The Auk. 



We need not say that the fine scholarship of Dr. Coues has made this diction- 

 ary of birds a vara avis in scientific literature.-^ iView York Herald. 



This is a unique feature, rarely attempted in scientific works, and nowhere 

 else so well done as here. The highest praise must be awarded to Dr. Coues 

 for the fullness, accuracy and literary elegance with which this part of his work 

 has been performed. . . . Three hundred titles are included, which shows cer- 

 tainly that the most graceful pen now wielded in American science is also one 

 of the most active. — The Chicago Dial. 



Those who are familiar with the author's peculiarly felicitous literary style, 

 as displayed in his 'Birds of the Colorado Valley,' and in his numberless essays 

 and published addresses, will not be surprised to find that he has accomplished 

 that rare feat of making a dictionary readable. The happy faculty of adorning 

 whatever he touches does not fail him even here, the dryest philological techni- 

 calities being vivified with the genius of a master of words. — The Washington 

 Capital. ' 



KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Containing a concise account of everv species of living and fossil bird at present known on 

 the Continent north of the boundary line between Mexico and the United States, including 



Greenland. Second ed., revised to date and entirely rewritten: with which are incorporated 



GENERAL ORNITHOLOGY: 



AN OUTLINE OF THE STRUCTURE AND CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS; and 



FIELD ORNITHOLOGY: 



. A MANUAL OF COLLECTING, PREPARING, AND PRESERVING BIRDS. 

 By Elliot Coues, M.A.. M.D., Ph.D., member of the National Academy of Sciences, etc. 

 PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED. 



The original edition of this standard text-book of Ornithology being entirely out of print, 

 and still very much in demand, the publishers have spared neither pains nor expense in the. 

 preparation of "The New Key," in which the whole subject is carefully brought down to date. 

 Coues's "Key" is too well known as a leading and authoritative treatise to require remark, 

 having for twelve years held its place as the standard work id' reference for professional orni- 

 thologists, a< well as for students and amateurs. 



The amount of matter in this new edition has been nearly quadrupled, and the number of 

 illustrations, many of them engraved expressly for this edition, has been more than doubled. 



Complete in one volume. 

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" " Half Mor. Extra ... " 13-50 



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