Birds & Nature Magazine 



III 



The Library Shelf 



(Continued) 

 A number of the essays in this volume have already 

 been published in "Outing," "Recreation," and 

 other periodicals. They begin with the first week 

 in January and form a progressive series, touching 

 upon the sights and sounds which greet the nature 

 lover as he walks abroad from week to week. 

 Snow crystals, wild creatures — then springing 

 blades and flowers — and especially birds, for the 

 author is an enthusiastic bird-lover and emphasizes 

 the fact that there is no season in the year when we 

 may not find our feathered friends — if not robins, 

 then juncos and chickadees and snow buntings, 

 which are equally interesting in their way. Not the 

 least valuable and attractive feature of the book is 

 the illustrations in color by Mr. Walter King 

 Stone, which are exceedingly decorative and, with 

 their broad masses of blue and white, quite sug- 

 gestive of the Japanese. The book opens, unfor- 

 tunately, with a misquotation from Professor Car- 

 ruth's little poem, "Each in His Own Tongue," 



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ANEW impression of "Birdcraft," by Mabel 

 Osgood Wright, has recently appeared, with 

 some revisions and additions. This is a book 

 which for nearly twelve years has been the vade 

 mecum of many an appreciative nature student — of 

 that class who, with Emerson, can "name all the 

 birds without a gun." In its terse and admirable 

 descriptions of our North American birds it has not 

 been surpassed by any of the more recent books on 

 the subject, though its illustrations are not always 

 characteristic, and are in some cases actually mis- 

 leading. Those of the bluebird and the robin are 

 examples of a tendency which appears in many of 

 the pictures, to shorten the length of the bird, 

 throwing it out of proper proportion. The pro- 

 portions of the bluebird seem to be about those of 

 the chickadee. Again, although the length of each 

 bird appears in figures beneath the engraving, it 

 gives one a start to see on the same page, the cow- 

 bird and the purple grackle apparently of the same 

 size, or within a few pages of each other the spar- 

 row hawk larger than the osprey. If the illustra- 

 tions were more exact and in color, the book would 

 be an almost ideal manual. 



BibHography 



Three Acres and Liberty: By Bolton Hz.ll, assisted by R. 

 F. Powell, with an introduction by Geo. T. Powell. New York; 

 The Macmillan Co. 



Ye Gardeyne Boke: A Collection of Quotations, Instructive 

 and Sentimental, gathered and arranged by Jennie Day Haines. 

 Decorations by Spencer Wright. San Francisco and New York: 

 Paul Elder & Co. 



The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year, by 

 C. William Beebe. Illustrations by Walter King Stone. New 

 York: Henry Holt & Co. 



Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game and 

 Water Birds, by Mabel Osgood Wright. Illustrations by Louis 

 Agassiz Fuertes. New York: The Macmillan Co. 



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6 Chief White Buffalo (Arapahoe) 



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8 Chief Wets It (Assiniboine) 



9 Chief Mountain (Blackfeet) 



10 Thunder Cloud (Blackfeet) 



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15 Looks Cloud 



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18 Chief Red Cloud (Sioux) 



19 Chief Sitting Bull (Sioux) 



20 Little Wound Chief (Ogalalla Sioux) 



21 Ahahe (Witchita) 



22 Blue Wings (Winnebago) 



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24 Chief Grant Richards (Tonkawa) 



25 Chief Joseph (Nez Perces) 



26 Chief Louison (Flathead) 



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28 Chief White Man (Kiowa) 



29 Chief White Swan (Crow) 



30 Yellow Feather (Maricopa) 



31 Chase in the Morning 



32 Big Man 



33 Chief Red Bear 



34 Two Little Braves 



35 Bill Rock 



36 Chief Wolf Robe (full length) 



37 Chief Geronimo (civilian dress) Apache 



38 Good Eagle (Sioux) 



39 Chief Red Bear (Arapahoe) 



40 Eagle Feather and Papoose (Sioux) 



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43 Spotted Elk 



44 Chief Red Shirt 



45 Little Cloud 



46 Left Hand Bear 



47 Crazy Bear 



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