OUR BIRDS IN THEIR HAUNTS. 
BY REV. J. H. LANGILLE, M.A. 
Our Birds in Their Haunts, an octavo cut down of 630 pp., 
well bound in cloth and illustrated. Issued by ORANGE JUDD 
Co., New York. $2.50. For sale by the author. 
Not merely a book about birds, but a complete treatise on the birds of 
Eastern North America, sufficiently minute in descriptions for all ordinary 
purposes of identification of species. Not a compilation by a closet 
naturalist, but a work from observation from nature. Not a dry tech- 
nical style, but readable to youth and people generally a book for the 
lover of nature a book for everybody. 
Oology is made a specialty. The location, material, and structure of the 
nest, and the size, form, and color of the eggs are fully noted. 
DEAR SIR : The copy of " Our Birds in Their Haunts " you sent me some days 
since, was duly received and has been examined with pleasure and deep interest. 
Considered as a popular work its plan seems to have been happily conceived, while 
each page bears evidence of the writer's intense love of nature and his ability not 
only to observe intelligently, but to express felicitously the aspects of nature and 
the varied traits of bird-life that come under review. It is evidently the work of 
not only an enthusiastic bird-lover and field naturalist, but of a writer who is fully 
competent for the pleasant task he has undertaken. As a popular exposition ot 
the life-histories of the birds of Eastern North America, " Our Birds in Their 
Haunts " will doubtless meet with the cordial welcome it so well deserves ; while 
its freshness and originality make the work a valuable contribution to the litera- 
ture of North American ornithology. 
Thanking you most heartily for the pleasure its perusal has afforded me, 
Sincerely yours, J. A. ALLEN, 
President of the Ornithologist Union, Editor of the Auk, Cambridge, Mass 
"The studies are made in the order of the seasons, forming an ornithological 
calendar, and again the species are grouped about certain localities so that the air 
of out-door freshness is presented as it can not be when the arrangement by 
families is carried out with scientific strictness. The best authorities have been 
consulted throughout, but there is abundant evidence that the author has observed 
for himself instead of selecting and compiling material from the bird literature 
which is already becoming abundant." New York Tribune. 
Address, J. H. LANGILLE, 
KENSINGTON, MD. 
