any lover of nature having the half tones 

 he g-ives would not part with them for ten 

 times the cost of the book. 



Catching- good negatives of live birds in 

 the open is not easy. One needs to know 

 photography and bird habits extremely 

 well, and then be satisfied with a thousand 

 failures along with a few successes. This 

 knowledge and patience have been remark- 

 ably displayed by the author in the profu- 

 sion of full-page reproductions of his valu- 

 able work. 



The meadow lark's nest containing 

 young birds is a most artistic plate. The 

 tree toads clinging to their tree and the 

 mother spider caught in the act of carrying 

 her youDg in a silken ball are deserving of 

 special commendation. His pair of cedar 

 birds look particularly happy as they bal- 

 ance upon their twigs and eye the camera as 

 if they knew all about it. 



Horned toads and whales, dragon flies 

 and opossums, as well as many other forms 

 of life, both common and rare, have their 

 turn at entertaining the reader, and their 

 inmost thoughts seem to have been read by 

 this enthusiastic and peculiarly successful 

 scientist. 



It is a good book for children of all ages, 

 but wherever it is introduced into any fam- 

 ily the younger children will uniformly 

 have to wait till their elders have enjoyed 

 it, for no age can be proof against its 

 charms. 



Birds of North America. Illustrated 

 Descriptive Manual to Beard's Natural 

 History Charts. Potter & Putnam 

 Company, 63 Fifth Ave., New York. 



This convenient little pamphlet contains 

 brief descriptions of some of the most com- 

 mon birds, the eagle, the owl, the parrot, the 

 crow, the turkey, the quail, the ostrich, the 

 heron, the swan, and the penguin. It is 

 closely printed with numerous illustrations 

 of the structure and forms of the typical 

 birds of each sort, and gives in language 

 that can well be understood by children, the 

 principal facts of interest. 



It is sold at 20 cents, and will be found 

 valuable to a large class of teachers who are 

 in search of material to interest their pupils 

 in the common birds of our country. 



Nests and Eggs of North American 

 Birds, by Oliver Davie, author of 

 "Methods in the Art of Taxidermy," 

 etc. The Landon Press, Columbus, 

 Ohio. 



This is the fifth edition of an excellent 

 work that has already won wide recognition 

 as an exposition of how the birds build and 

 lay. It has been revised and enlarged con- 



siderably, and now contains a profusion of 

 cuts that will be highly appreciated. Rec- 

 ognizing the difficulty the mind has in grasp- 

 ing the entire meaning of a written descrip- 

 tion, the author has added to his text a large 

 number of well-executed drawings of the 

 birds most difficult to describe and has given 

 their nests and eggs the attention their im- 

 portance to the naturalist demands. 



The book consists of over five hundred 

 pages octavo, closely printed, and arranged 

 so as to constitute a convenient and exhaus- 

 tive encyclopedia of the birds of this country 

 and their nests and eggs. Although the. 

 title of the book would lead one to think the 

 matter does not pertain to the habits of the 

 birds, nor their appearance, it is more com- 

 plete in this respect than many books writ- 

 ten ostensibly to describe the birds them- 

 selves, and in many of its articles almost com- 

 plete life. histories are to be found. The nest- 

 ing habits and the hatching of the eggs have 

 led the author on till the work has become a 

 very readable one for those who are by no 

 means specialists on eggs and nests. The 

 writer has modestly disclaimed attempting 

 to cover so much ground and refers his read- 

 ers to the works of Coues and Ridgway for 

 further particulars. 



The numbers of those who do not let a 

 summer pass without looking into the lives 

 of the birds which visit their country resi- 

 dences are rapidly growing, and this growth 

 of interest on the part of thousands who do 

 not wish to become experts but desire to en- 

 joy their feathered neighbors and their 

 products most fully, has made room for a 

 large sale of this work. It has but to be- 

 come known to be possessed b}' all cultured 

 households where trips to the country are 

 annually made. 



To know the birds of one's locality by 

 name and to be able to identify their nests 

 and watch their doings with some degree of 

 intelligence is an accomplishment which 

 many desire and are annually attaining. 

 With this work in one's possession few birds 

 can remain in the vicinity without being 

 identified. The gladness and loss of selfish 

 thoughts and motives that are the reward of 

 all those who lose their hearts to the birds 

 and their growing families do far more 

 good in the world than any amount of drugs 

 and dieting. 



Few people go to the country without hav- 

 ing something they wish to gain in the way 

 of health. A prescription of bird life taken 

 regularly before meals has been found one 

 of the greatest cure-alls the world has pro- 

 duced. There is no work in existence better 

 calculated to promote this sort of convales- 

 cence than this one on the nests and eggs 

 that we so often run past in our ignorance of 

 the joy a bush or stump or tree has in store 

 for those who have a mind to find it. 



