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and Families, with the common and scientific names 

 of all the birds; an introduction to every chief division; 

 and last, and highly important, colored pictures of all 

 the species and many of the geographical varieties. 

 What more can the bird student desire for purposes of 

 identification? While the other manuals give fuller 

 descriptions of habits, songs, etc., and need not, there- 

 fore, be superseded by this volume, yet frankness forces 

 us to say that if the student, and especially the beginner, 

 cannot afford to buy more than one bird book, the 

 Chapman-Reed ' 'Color Key" is the one to get. It is of a 

 convenient size for carrying afield, so that a feathered 

 stranger can be identified on the spot. It can be used 

 anywhere in the United States, in British America, and 

 Alaska. Think of that, fellow bird-lovers! 



A good field glass is indispensable to successful bird 

 study, especially if you desire to name all the birds 

 without killing any, as I hope you do. Perhaps the 

 older ornithologists, like Audubon and Wilson, did not 

 use helps of this kind, but they used guns, and conse- 

 quently had to study dead birds, while you and I want 

 to study living ones. Their killing of birds was, indeed, 

 necessary, for purposes of scientific classification; but 

 now that such classifying has, for the most part, been 

 attained, the gun 'has largely gone out of vogue, and the 

 glass has taken its place. Let your alliterative motto 

 be: With the glass, not the gun. 



I would advise you not to buy a flashily colored glass, 

 for it will dazzle your eyes on sunshiny days. Be sure to 



