THE YOUNG OOLOGIST. 



OUR BIRDS 



THEIR HAUNTS. 



A POPULAR TREATISE ON 



TyirlsofEasismli. 



— EY — 



Rev. J. H. LANGILLE, M. A. 



Brief descriptions, and for the most part 

 FULL LIFE HISTORIES are given of 

 all the species common east of the Mississippi, 

 with special attention to the songs and nesting, 

 and the.curious and fascinating, of which there 

 is so much in the lives of these wonderful 

 creatures. The narrative follows, for the most 

 part, the order of the seasons, and groups itself 

 about certain interesting localities, as Niagara 

 River and St. Clair Flats. Migration, instinct, 

 the analogy of nidification, the specialized 

 forms and adaptations of structure in birds, etc., 

 all made readable. 



The work is mostly from personal observa- 

 tion, incorporating a full report for Western 

 New York and the adjoining regions of the great 

 lakes, and a pretty full report for Nova Scotia, 

 also a good deal of direct information from 

 Hudson's Bay, by means of on excellent cor- 

 respondent. 



In cloth and on fine tinted paper, 

 PRICE $3.00. 



By special arrangements every person purchasing 



the work direct from the author and mentioning that 



he saw the advertisement in the Young Oologist' 



will receive a copy of Lattin's 80 page catalogue gratis' 



Address all orders to 



REV. J. H. LANGILLE, 



850 West Ave., Buffalo, N. Y. 



IsrOTICES. 



H. W. DeLong, Esq., Dansville, N. Y., says: "A 

 hurried glancing over convinces me, that it is not 

 only of great interest to the general reader, ranking 

 with the works of Burroughs, Thoreau and Gilbert 

 White, but is of special value to the ornithologist, be 

 he amateur or professional." 



"Dear Sir — I ran see that you have given ornitho- 

 logists a quantity of fresh, original and very interest- 

 ing as Veil as valuable matter. We have had so much 

 hackneyed material of late that your biographies are 

 sure to be doubly welcome. On the whole I like your 

 work, and I believe it is destined to be read widely 

 and to do much good, and I shall take pleasure in re- 

 commending it to my friends. 

 Yours truly, 



WILLIAM BREWSTER." 



Otcr Birds i7t their Haunts. By Hibbert Langille. 

 Mr. Langille's book is, first of all, popular in its 

 aim and character. What such eminent writers as 

 Dr. Coues have done for the student of ornithology, 

 Mr. Langville doesfor the general reader, who may 

 have no special knowledge of the subject. Writing 

 almost entirely froin personal observation, he takes 

 up the descriptions and habits of the birds as they 

 appear in Eastern North America in ' rder of the 

 seasons, and it is free and unhampered by the neces- 

 sity of dividing the various clashes of birds. He be- 

 gins by noting the arrival of the first feathered visitors 

 of the winter, the horned lark, the red poll, the chi- 

 cadee,^and the gold finch, and so on, taking up each 

 bird separately, though he devotes much space, never- 

 theless, to the habits, instincts, and structure of birds 

 in general. Special attention is given to such inter- 

 esting localities as the Niagaara River and St. Clair 

 Flats, the great lakes, Nova Scotia, and Hudson's 

 Bay, where the bird-life has many notably interesting 

 •features. The volume is carefully illustrated, and 

 has a comprehensive index, supplying a key to the 

 stores of information Mr. Langille crowds into his 

 pages. [Boston; S. E. Cassino & Co., i vol., 8vo, 

 $3.00. — Book Buyer. 



Our Birds_ in-, their Haunts. .By Rev. J. Hibbert 

 Langille, M. A. Crown, Bvo., pp. 624. Price, $3.ao. 

 Boston : S. E. Cassino & Co. 



How glad we should have been a few years ago, 

 when we were teaching school, to have had access to 

 such a volume as this. All the books of value on 

 bird-life were then so costly that we found it impos- 

 sible to furnish our pupils with them as we desired. 

 The present volume is just what we were looking for 

 — a papular treatise on the birds of North America. 

 It will prove a book which everybody can read with 

 profit and delight. Its illustrations, though not 

 numerous (25), are by that prince of bird-artists, Mr. 

 Edwin Sheppard of Philadelphia, whose connection 

 with the Smithsonian Institute has given him a world- 

 wide reputation, and assures accuracy. The matter 

 of the volume is largly the result of extensive and 

 continued obervation, presented in the most readable 

 form. The author well says: "The first aim of the 

 work is to render as popular and attractive as possible, 

 as well as to bring within a small compass, the sum 

 total of the bird-life of Eastern North America." He 

 has, therefore given brief descriptions, and for the 

 most part full life histories of all the species common 

 east of the Mississippi River, giving special attention 

 . to the songs and nesting, dwelling largely upon the 

 curious and fascinating, of which there is so much in 

 the lives of these wonderful creatures. The narrative 

 follows, for the most part, the order of the seasons, 

 and groups itself about certain localities, as Niagara 

 River and St. Clair Flats. There is no purer source 

 of recreation than to go abroad and study the nature, 

 habits and songs of the birds, and Mr. Langille, by his 

 example, has shown us what can be accomplished in 

 this line by a quick eye and inquisitive mind, and that 

 a persistent observer can, without neglect of his ordin- 

 ary business, cultivate an acquaintance with the birds 

 which will prove alike pleasant, instructive and re- 

 fining.— 77^^ National Baptist, Philadelphia, Pa. 



