I^ly C ateliers aiad Water Birds. 



(to be issued shortly.) 



FJ^K,T II. 



NEW ENGLAND BIRD LIFE, 



Being a Manual of New England Ornitholog}^ 



Revised and edited from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns, member of 

 the Nuttall Ornithological Club, etc. Bj Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A., Mem- 

 ber of the Academy, etc. Illustrated, $2.50 {completing the ■work'). 



This volume, which is now passing through the press, is devoted exclusively 

 to the Muscicapidae or Fly Catchers and the various and numerous species of 

 Water-birds. Like Pai-t I of the same work, this volume is the most complete 

 cyclopaedia of the subject, and the name of the editor is a sufficient guarantee 

 that his task has been conscientiously and carefully carried forwai-d. 



The volume will be uniform in size and price with Part First already 

 published, which treats of the Oschtes, or Singing Birds, and which has 

 elicited the heartiest commendation from all sides. We submit the following : — 



"The work has been done so thoroug-hly that in point of completeness it is almost perfect; so 

 consistently that but few points are open to criticism ; so concisely that 13S species are treated in 

 270 Svo pages, and the arrangement of the whole is masterly. Gracefully turned descriptive pas- 

 sages and sparkling bits of commentary everywhere enliven the subject, as the brighter colors of an 

 old piece of tapestry set off its more sombre background." — Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithologi- 

 cal Club. 



"Its method and scope are all that could be desired in a general scientific treatise, and it fills a 

 place liitherto unoccupied." — Boston Traveller, 



"Those who are familiar with the Editor's felicitous style, as displayed especially in his 'Birds 

 of the North-west' and 'Birds of the Colorado Valley,' will not fail to recognize his touches on 

 nearly every page, or his influence on the general execution of the work." — N. T. Nation. 



"It is prepared by acknowledged authority, and is practical and popular rather than exhaustive. 

 It is just the book to take down from one's library shelf in answer to the question 'What bird is 

 that?' It is just the book to give a twelve-year old boy when he begins to be curious about birds. 

 It is just the book to go into a school reference library." — A''. T. Christian. Union. 



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The Nuttall Ornithological Club is much in need of copies of Vol. I, No. i 

 (April 1876), and Vol. II, No. i (January 1877), of this Bulletin. Anyone 

 having a copy of either of these numbers in good preservation which he can 

 spare, will confer a favor by mailing it to Charles F. Batchelder, Cam- 

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