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CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1888. 



Fork-Tailed Flycatcher (^^ih•u!us tvr.nutus (linn,^ v i Afin- .Vuiiuhon's Pi.-ite'). .FRONTisriEn 

 The Fork-Tailed Flycatcher i: 



Alexander Wilson.— V iSi 



Charleys Wonderful Journeys,— X. (illustrated.) By C F. Amery 134 



Man's Dependence on the Lower Animals, (illustrated.) kjo 



The Song Sparrow ' »3 



Bird Legends lo*^' 



The Audubon Note Book : 



MEMiiF.RSHir Reti'rns 107 



T^OTEs FROM Pennsylvania lo; 



A Duck in a Chimney niT 



Useful and Entertaining Books. 



THE FOLLOWING IVQUKS OxY NATURAL HISTORY ARE RECOMMENDED 10 

 THOSE INTERESTED IN THE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT. 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. |i 50 Insects Injurious to Vegetation, Harris 4 'i 



K. O. U. Check List of N. A. Birds 3 00 Intelligence of Animals, 54 illus., Menaut. . . i ^ 



American Bird Fancier 50 John Burroughs' Works: Wake Robin; Win- 

 Antelope and Deer of America, Caton 2 50 ter Sunshine; Birds and Poets; Locusts and 



Audubon's Journals: Compiled by his widow, Wild Honey; Signs and Seasons; each vol. i 50 



edited by J. (1. Wilson (with steel plate en- Mammals of New York, paper I4 ; cloth 5 00 



graving of the great naturalist after Inman's Manual of Taxidermy, Maynard i 25 



painting); octavo 2 00 Manual of Vertebrates, Jordan 2 50 



Baird's Birds of North America 30 00 Minot's Land and Game Birds 3 (X) 



Bird Notes, from Forest and Stream 75 Native Song Birds 75 



Birds and Wild Animals Wilson i 75 Naturalist's Assistant, Kingsley i 50 



Birds Nesting, Ingersoll i 25 Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 400 PracticalTaxiderm"y& Home Decoration, Batty i 50 



Birds and their Haunts 3 "» Shore Birds 15 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams r" Taxidermy Without a Teacher, Manton 50 



Common Objects of the Seashore 50 Taxidermists' Manual, Brown i (Xi 



Coues' Check List of North American Birds. . 3 00 Taxidermists' Manual, illus.. Brown 50 



Game Water Birds of Atlantic Coast, Roosevelt 2 00 Thoreau's Works: Excursions in Field and 



Guide to the Study of Insects, Packard 5 o<i Forest; Walden, or Life in the Woods; The 



Ilolden's Book of Birds, paper 25 Maine Woods; Early .Spring in Massachu- 



Insect World, Figuier i 50 setts; Summer; each vol 1 



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