JUST ISSUED 



In the American Nature Series 



BIRDS OF THE WORLD 



By FRANK H. KNOWLTON, of the United States National Museum, 

 with chapter on the Anatomy of Birds by FREDERICK A. LUCAS, Chief 

 Curator, Brooklyn Academy of Arts and Sciences, and edited by ROBERT 

 RIDGWAY, Curator of Birds, United States National Museum. Large 

 8vo. Illustrated with 16 colored plates, and several hundred text cuts, 

 873 pp , boxed. $7 net, carriage 40 cents extra. 



The most comprehensive one-volume work oh birds. A modern popular 

 account. 



Following several preliminary chapters on the general appearance and 

 structure of birds, their migrations, distribution, classification, etc., every 

 known family, both fossil and living, has been passed in review and accorded 

 approximately equal and even treatment. In many cases this amounts to a 

 mention of all the known species of a family, but in the larger families it has, 

 of course, been possible to include only the more important or more interesting 

 forms, though enough have been included to convey a fairly complete picture. 



The treatment of game birds has purposely been made very full. 



Technical language has been omitted so far as possible, and the main 

 attention given to the birds as they appear in their homes, that is — their plum- 

 age, habits, songs, nests, eggs and food. 



The illustrations, many of which have been specially prepared for this 

 work, arc abundant. 



PREVIOUSLY ISSUED 

 THE BIRD: Its Form and Function 



By C. WILLIAM BEEBE, Author of "Two Bird Lovers in Mexico," 

 Curator of Birds in the New York Zoological Park. With frontispiece in 

 color and 370 illustrations from photographs. 496 pp., square Svo, boxed, 

 $3.50 net, by mail $3.80. 



The story of the evolution of birds, unlocked from technical language. 

 The treatment is popular, and the volume is intended for all nature-lovers and 

 students, and as an accompaniment to the identification book. 



"Handsome and beautifully illustrated . . . charming and interesting 

 . as the general reader or the unscientific bird -lover can desire . 

 will take and hold a distinct place in the literature of the subject, for it is 

 quite original and stands alone. Not only is it a most readable and interest- 

 ing book, but a valuable one to teachers ... of world wide interest." 

 — Nature {London). 



Other volumss published in the American Nature Series 



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V. L. Kellogg's Insect Stories. $1.50 t-» o 1 j . r?- u *«: ^^ 



j^ J. * ^"^ D. S. Jordan s Fishes. $6 net." 



Eggeling and Ehrenberg's The Fresh C. F. Holder and D. S. Jordan's Fish 

 Water Aquarium and Its Inhab- Stories. $1.75 net. 



itants. $2.00 net.* 



Dr. Curtis's Nature and Health. $1.25 C. H. Sternberg's The Life of a Fossil 

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