A NEW BOOK. 



COLOR. KEY TO NOR.TH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



"By FranH^M. Chapman, 



Associate Curator of Ornithology and Mammalogy in the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Author of "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America," "Bird-Life," Etc. 



With Upwa^rd of 800 DraLwings 



By CHESTER A. REED. B. S. 



Illustrating In Colors Nearly Every Species of North American Birds. 



This is a book for that great and rapidly 

 growing class of Nature-lovers who would 

 'name the birds without a gun.' In no 

 other text-book has the problem of identifi- 

 cation been so simplified. 



There are no technical terms to learn, no 

 puzzling synopses to analyze; but having 

 seen a bird you have only to turn to that sec- 

 tion of the book in which birds of its order 

 and color are placed, look for its picture, 

 and verify your selection by reading the 

 statement of its diagnostic markings and 



geographic range. As a further aid to field identification, descriptions of the 



birds' calls and songs are given. 



In short, the book is an illustrated dictionary of North American birds, so 



arranged that one may learn a bird's name with the least possible difficulty. 

 Each Order of birds is preceded by an introduction 



giving a general account of the habits of the families of 



birds included in it, a feature of the work which should 



make it especially useful to teachers. 



For students who desire to know how and why birds 



are classified, there is a Key to Orders and Families of 



North American Birds, with life-size drawings illustrat- 

 ing one or more characteristic species of every family, 



and a systematic table, which includes the birds found 



north of Mexico. 



No other popular work treats of all the birds of this; 



great area. The book is therefore equally useful in any 



part of the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from 



the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. 



Trice ^2.50 



CHAS. K. RCEiD, 



75 ThomaLS Street, Worcester, Mass. 



