OUTDOOR BOOKS 



BIRD-LIFE 



A Guide to the Study of our Common Birds. By Frank M. Chapman, 

 Assistant Curator of Mammalogy and OrnithoIoKy, American Museum ol 

 Natural History: author of "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North 

 America." With 75 full-page Plates and numerous Text Drawings by Ernest Seton Thomp- 

 son. i2mo. Cloth, I1.75. The same, with Lithographic Plates in colors. Svo. Cloth, J5. 



Tpar*hprQ' FHitinn Containing an Appendix with new matter designed for the use of 



l^aciltlO l^UlilUll teachers, and including lists of birds for each month in the year; 



and with additional annotated lists of birds found at Washington, 



D. C, Philadelphia, Pa.; Portland, Conn.; Cambridge, Mass.; St. Louis, Mo.; Oberlin, Ohio, and 



Milwaukee, Wis. With 75 full-page I'ncolored Plates and 25 Drawings in the text, by Ernest 



Seton Thonii)son. i2nio. Cloth, $2. 



T'pQr'hprc' Manual To accompany Portfolios of Colored Plates. Contains the same text as 

 ltdCiit;i5 lYldllUrtl the '• Teachers' Edition of Bird-Life," but is without the 75 Uncolored 

 Plates. Sold only with the Portfolios of the Colored Plates as follows : 

 Portfolio No. L— Permanent Residents and Winter Visitants. 32 Plates. 

 Portfolio No. IL— March and April Migrants. 34 Plates. 



Portfolio No. ML— May Migrants, Ty|)es of Birds' Eggs, and 9 Half-tone Plates 



showing Types ot Birds, from Photographs from Nature. 34 Plates. 



Price of Portfolios, each, $1.25 ; with the Manual, $2 ; the three Portfolios, with the Manual, I4. 



" His chronicles are full of the entluisi.ism of the born naturalist. He jjossips about the affairs of birds in a delightful strain, 



making ■ Bird-Life ■ an iiresistihle invitation to a fuller study of ornithology. It is not dry details he offers, but pretty stories, 



biographical sketches of interesting families — all sorts of bird-lore that proves most enchanting reading.'" —Chicago livening Post. 



Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America 



With Keys to the Species; Descri|>tioiis of their Hhiniages, Nests, etc.; their Distribution and 

 Migrations. By Frank M Chapman. With nearly 200 Illustrations. i2nio. Library Edition, 

 cloth, 53; Pocket Edition, flexible morocco, $3.50. 

 "A book so free from technicalities as to be intelligible to a fourteen-yearold boy, and so convenient and full of original 



information as to be indispensable to the working ornithi logist. ... As a handbook of the birds of eastern North America it 



is bountl to superseile all other works." — Science. 



The Art of Taxidermy 



By John Rowi.kv, CluL-f of the Department of 

 Taxidermy in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. Illustrated. i2mo Cloth, J2. 

 " The style of this book is a model for works of its kind. 

 Every process of the difficult art of the taxidermist is here made 

 plain with an ease that speaks eloquently of the author's skill 

 in his field. Illustrations add to the clarity of the text, the 

 whole affording a very valuable working knowledge of the 

 stuffing and mounting of little and big game." — San Fran- 

 cisco Call. 



Insect Life 



By John Hknry Comstock, Professor of Ento- 

 mology in Cornell University. With illlustra- 

 tions by Amia Botsford Comstock, member of 

 the Society of .\merican Wood Engravers. 

 i2ino Library Edition, cloth, J2. 50 ; Teachers' 

 and Students' Edition, J1.50. 



" Any one who will go through the work with fidelity will be 

 rewarded by a knowledge of insect life which will be of pleas- 

 ure and benefit to him at all seasons, and will give an 

 increased charm to the days or weeks spent each summer 

 outside of the great cities. It is the best book of its class 

 which has yet appeared " — .Xeiv York Mail and Ilxpress. 



News from the Birds 



By Lkandkk S. Kkvser. .\ppletons' Home- 

 Reading Books. i2mo. Cloth, 60 cents net. 

 " Pleasantly combines instruction and entertainment." — 

 ritilactelphia Public Ledger. 



The Story of the Birds 



By jANHis Nkwton Baskktt, M..\., .\ssociate 



Member of the .\merican Ornithologists' I'nion. 



Appletons' Home-Reading Books, izmo. Cloth, 

 illustrated, 65 cents. 



" An admirable little book, as philosophic as it is entertain- 

 ing. In a brief but satisfactory manner it gives a vast amount 

 of most valuable information." — Boston Saturday livening 

 Gazette. 



Books by F. Schuyler Mathews 



Familiar Life in Field and Forest 



I'niform with "Familiar Flowers," "Familiar 

 Trees," and "Familiar F'eatures of the Road- 

 side." With many Illustrations. i2mo. Cloth, 



" This book is a charming companion to take on a summer 

 vacation. . . . It is wtitten in the simplest of language, 

 and would prove a valuable aid to any teacher of natural 

 history . " — jVashington Times. 



Familiar Features of the Roadside 



With 130 Illustrations by the .Viitlmr. I2ini). 



Cloth, J1.75. 



" A faithful guide-book for our roadsides. . . . Can be 

 unhesitatingly commended for summer strolls "— AVir York 

 /z'rning Post. 



Familiar Trees and their Leaves 



Illustrated with over 200 Drawings from Nature 

 by the .Author, and giving the botanical name 

 and habitat of each tree, and recording the pre- 

 cise character and coloring of its leafage, izmo. 

 Cloth, $1.75. 



"It is not often that we find a book which deserves such 

 unreserved commendation. It is commendable for several 

 reasons : it is a book that has been needed for a long lime, it 

 is written in a popular and attractive style, it is accurately and 

 profusely illustrated, and it is by an authority on the subject of 

 which it treats "—Public Ofinion. 



Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden 



Illustrateil with 200 Drawings by the .-Xuthor. 



i2mo. Library Edition, cloth, $1.75; Pocket 



Edition, flexible morocco, $2.25. 



"A lx)ok of much value and interest, admirably arranged 

 for the student and the lover of flowers. . . . The text is 

 full of compact information, well selected and interestingly 

 presented. ... It seems to us to be a most attractive 

 iiandbook of its kind." — Nem York Sun. 



(Send for a copy — free — of .Appletons' Blxletin of Spring Announcements.) 

 For sale by all Booksellers; or they will be sent postpaid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers. 



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