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AND BOOK OF BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH 

 AMERICA. With Keys to the Species, Descriptions of their 

 Plumages, Nests, etc. ; their Distribution and Migration. 

 Treating of all the birds, some five hundred in number, which 

 have been found east of the Mississippi River, and from the 

 Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. By FRANK M. CHAPMAN, 

 Assistant Curator of Mammalogy and Ornithology, American 

 Museum of Natural History. With,over 200 Illustrations. T2mo. 

 Library Edition, cloth, $3.00; Pocket Edition, flexible covers, 

 $3.50. 



The author's position has not only given him exceptional opportunities for the 

 preparation of a work which may be considered as authoritative, but has brought him 

 in direct contact with beginners in the study of birds whose wants he thus thoroughly 

 understands. The technicalities so confusing to the amateur are avoided, and by the 

 use of illustrations, concise descriptions, analytical keys, dates of migration, and re- 

 marks on distribution, haunts, notes, and characteristic habits, the problem of identi- 

 fication, either in the field or study, is reduced to its simplest terms. 



OPINIONS OF ORNITHOLOGISTS AND THE PRESS. 



" Written in simple and non-technical language, with special reference to the needs 

 of amateurs and bird-lovers, yet with an accuracy of detail that makes it a standard 

 authority on the birds of eastern North America." J. A. ALLEN, Editor of The Auk. 



" I am delighted with the ' Handbook.' So entirely trustworthy and up to date 

 that I can heartily recommend it. It seems to me the best all-around thing we have 

 had yet." OLIVE THORNE MILLER. 



" The ' Handbook' is destined to fill a place in ornithology similar to that held by 

 Gray's ' Manual' in botany. One seldom finds so many good things in a single vol- 

 ume, and I can not recommend it too highly. Its conciseness and freedcm from 

 errors, together with its many original ideas, make it the standard work of its class." 

 JOHN H. SAGE, Secretary of the American Ornithologists' Union. 



" Your charm ing and most useful little book. . . . I had good reason to expect an 

 excellent book of the kind from your pen, and certainly have not been disappointed. 

 We receive here very many inquiries concerning a popular book on birds, or rather, I 

 should say, a book so combining popular and scientific features as to render it both 

 entertaining and instructive. To all such inquiries I have been obliged to reply that 

 no such book existed. Now, however, the ' long-felt want ' has been satisfactorily 

 supplied ; and it will give me great pleasure to answer such inquiries in future in a 

 different way. ROBERT RIDGWAY, United States National Museum, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



" A book so free from technicalities as to be intelligible to a fourteen-year-old boy, 

 and so convenient and full of original information as to be indispensable to the -work- 

 ing ornithologist. ... As a handbook of the birds of eastern North America it is 

 bound to supersede all other works." Science. 



"The author has succeeded in presenting to the reader clearly and vividly a vast 

 amount of useful information." Philadelphia Press. 



"A valuable book, full of information compactly and conveniently arranged." 

 New York Sun. 



" A charming book, of interest to every naturalist or student of natural history." 

 Cincinnati Times-Star. 



"The book will meet a want felt by nearly every bird observer." Minneapolis 

 Tribune. 



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