William Kerr Higley, who edits Birds and Nature, certainly deserves a special meed of 

 credit for the contents and arrangement of the September issue. Bird lovers cannot fail to be 

 delighted with it. The pictures in remarkably life-like colors, and the desciiptions of the 

 Indian elephant, the walrus, the Bengal tiger, the Parula warbler, the white-throated sparrow, 

 and the two species of humming birds, are such as can be found in no other publication, and 

 the intermediary verses and quotations are exceedingly interesting. Every one of this 

 magazine's current features is so appropriate as to seem "made for" the amplification of that 

 vast subject, "Birds and Nature." The Boston Globe, Oct. 3, 1901. 



To my knowledge the magazine hasn't its equal. 

 Meriden, Conn., Sept. 14, 1901. 



C. A. Burgdorf. 



Please find enclosed fo for Birds and Nature beginning January, 1897, to date and the 

 remainder of 1901. - Albert A. Bott. 



Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1901. 



I am a subscriber of your magazine Birds and Nature. 

 Paullina, la., May 22, 1901. 



I think a great deal of it. 



Chas. W. Ihle. 



Enclosed find I1.50 for Birds and Nature, year ending December, 1901. Commencing 

 with the current number I desire you to drop my name as a subscriber and substitute the name 

 of my nephew, Homer H. Cole. I may thus encourage his study of nature by having your 

 publication sent to him direct. F. L. Van Tassel. 



Passaic, N. J. 



Enclosed find $1.50 for year's subscription to Birds and Nature. I am much pleased 

 with the book. The pictures are very life-like and the articles are most interesting and 

 instructive. P. J. Casey. 



Bloomington, Ind. 



Your bird pictures are the only ones, not paintings, that I have ever seen where the colors 

 were anything like natural; but if your pictures are not perfect they are near enough to be 

 called so. W. M. Buswell. 



Charlestown, N. H., May 14, 1901. 



Birds of Song and Story 



By ELIZABETH and JOSEPH GRINNELL 



16 Colored Plates. Ready Nov. 1. Price, $1.00. 

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These authors are well known as lovers of 

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BIRDS OF LAKESIDE AND PRAIRIE 



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THIS book will contain field sketches of 

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