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WILD BIRDS IN CITY PARKS 



25 CENTS PER COPY 



Highly Appreciated by All Classes of Readers. 



The little book entitled " Wild Birds in City Parks" describes one hundred species, and tells when they 

 arrive in the latitude of Chicago, with the addition of an index to the common names of the birds and a blank 

 chart on which one may record his own observations. — The Criterion. 



The appearance of a revised edition of the excellent little handbook entitled "Wild Birds in City Parks," by 

 Herbert Eugene Walter and Alice Hall Walter (Chicago; A. W. Mumford), suggests the need of similar manuals 

 for the identification of birds in other localities. In the present work one hundred land birds only are presented, 

 all of which have been observed in Lincoln Park, Chicago. The use of such a work as this affords an excellent 

 means by which city dwellers may make the acquaintance of many of our wild \}\rds.~Ilevi(tv of Eevieivs. 



The book is what the title indicates, an inexpensive handbook for the identification of one hundred com- 

 mon birds. Most people are content to know in all a half dozen birds by sight. I have known two teachers on 

 the same day to walk through a park within an hour of each other and each for the express purpo.se of seeing 

 birds, and one saw a robin, a bluejay, a bluebird and a meadow-lark, and was ready to take oath that she saw 

 every variety of bird there was there. The other saw eighteen birds. The first saw only the birds she knew. 

 With this book in hand the first would soon learn to see the eighteen that the second student tonnCi.—J ournal of 

 Education. 



Birds With AN Opera Glass.— "Wild Birds in city Parks," (A. W. Mumford, Chicago, 25 cents) is the 

 title of a forty-flvepage canvas-bound pamphlet, written by Herbert E. and Alice Hall Walter. This little work, 

 now in its second edition, is the result of five years' systematic ob.servation of the birds in Lincoln Park, Chicago. 

 There is a folding chart, copied from the one the authors used to carry, which affords room for notes on about 

 one hundred named varieties and as many more additional ones; these notes show just how many specimens of 

 each kind were seen on each date, besides indicating weather and wind for that date. In the body of the book 

 these one hundred varieties are carefully described in the order of their average first appearance in Lincoln 

 Park, based upon observations made during the last five years. The list also gives the scienti tic name of each bird, 

 indicates which one has a song worthy of particular notice, and mentions any bird or birds for which it might 

 easily be mistaken. Following this is a table arranged by families, showing the date of the first arrival of eack 

 bird mentioned as observed in Lincoln Park. Still another table shows on how many days the various birds have 

 been observed; lastly, there is a graphic chart showing the "height of the migration," May 6 to 20, of each year. 

 A supplementary list includes not only the birds seen by the authors, but many others known to occur in the 

 locality under observation; each name is followed by the official number as given in the check list of the Amer- 

 ican Ornithological Union. The book closes with an index of common names as mentioned in its pages. — New 

 York Tinies Saturday Beview. 



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