Books for the Country 



FIELD BOOK OF AMERICAN WILD FLOWERS. Being a Short 

 Description of their Character and Habits, a Concise Definition 

 of their Colors, and incidental references to the Insects which 

 assist in their Fertilization. By F. SCHUYLER MATHEWS, author 

 of " Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden," etc. 16, 525 pp., 

 with 24 colored plates and 200 full-page illustrations in the text. 

 Net, $1.75. (By mail, $1.85.) Full leather, net, $2.25. 



Any writing about nature from the pen of Mr. Mathews merits careful reading. 

 This book has the unique quality of being a Pocket Botany. Further, its illus- 

 trations are of extraordinary excellence, probably the best ever printed in a 

 Botany. 



FIELD BOOK OF WILD BIRDS AND THEIR MUSIC. By F. 



SCHUYLER MATHEWS, author of " Field Book of American Wild 

 Flowers," etc. 16, with 38 colored and 15 other full-page 

 illustrations, and numerous musical diagrams. Cloth, net, $2.00. 

 Full flexible leather, net, $2.50. (Postage, 15 cents.) 



" A description of the songs and the coloring of wild birds which will enable 

 any one to identify the species common in tne Eastern United States. Mr. 

 Mathews has developed a new theory of mechanical rhythm in the music of 

 different species which is the all-important factor in an unerring identification of 

 a bird by ear alone. The book fills a place never before occupied by any volume 

 devoted to bird study. ^\ 



BOG-TROTTING FOR ORCHIDS. By GRACE GREYLOCK NIUJS. 

 Illustrated from Photographs by KATHERINE LEWERS and the 

 Author. 8, with 24 colored and 48 other full-page illus- 

 trations. Net, $2.50. (By mail, $2.70.) 



The work is profusely illustrated in color from photographs taken of the 

 orchids in their native haunts. Readers will be surprised at the number and rare 

 beauty of these native flowers, which are little known owing to the inaccessibility 

 of their habitat. 



NORTH AMERICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY. Their Re- 

 lations to the National Life of the American People. By ERNEST 

 BRUNCKEN, Secretary of the late Forestry Commission of 

 Wisconsin. 8, pp. 265, net, $2.00. 



" I have read this book with deep interest, and find it exceedingly well suited 

 to minister to and to promote the interest in forestry which is now happily so 

 widely awakened. It is a work which will appeal strongly to the general public 

 and command attention beyond the limits attained by mere technical pub- 

 lications." Prof. E. J. WICKSON, of the University of California. 



THE WAY OF THE WOODS. A Manual for Sportsmen in North- 

 eastern United States and Canada. By EDWARD BRECK. 436 

 pages, 80 illustrations, compact form, $1.75 net. 



The author is both a naturalist and a practised woodsman, an exponent of the 

 highest type of sportsmanship, who strives to arouse interest rather in the study 

 of animals and birds than in their wanton slaughter. 



The book is distinguished by its clear, terse, and practical style. 



Q. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, NEW YORK AND LONDON 



