BIRDCRAFT. 



A FIELD-BOOK OF TWO HUNDRED SONG, GAME, AND 

 WATER BIRDS. 



By MRS. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT. 



With Full-page Plates, containing 128 Birds in their Natural 

 Colors, and Other Illustrations. 



Small quarto. Cloth. $3.00. 



PRESS COMMENTS. 



" This is a charming volume, upon a pleasant theme. The author is not a hara- 

 hearted scientist who goes forth with bag and gun to take life and rob nests, but a 

 patient and intelligent observer, who loves the children of the air, and joins their fra- 

 ternity. Such a book inspires study and observation, and encourages effort to acquire 

 knowledge of the works of God. The book is a wise teacher as well as an inspiring 

 guide, and contains beautiful, well-arranged illustrations." — New York Observe*-. 



** The author has struck the golden mean iu her treatment of the different birds, saying 

 neither too much nor too little, but mostly furnishing information at first hand, or from 

 approved authorities. The book will be very welcome to a large number who have felt 

 the want of a work of this kind. It will increase their enjoyment of outward nature, and 

 greatly add to the pleasure of a summer vacation." — Boston Herald* 



THE FRIENDSHIP OF NATURE. 



A NEW ENGLAND CHRONICLE OF BIRDS 

 AND FLOWERS. 



By MRS. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT. 



iSmo. Cloth. Gilt Top, 75 cts. ; Large Paper, $3.00. 



Filled with the very spirit of New England woods and byways, it is a book to make 

 glad the heart of every lover of nature; for, together with a keenness of insight, and a 

 scientific precision, it unites the warmest sympathy and reverence of all the doings of that 

 mysterious world of birds and flowers of which we really know so little and of which no 

 study can be more engrossing. Mrs. Wright is well known as a photographer of unusual 

 skill, and the large paper edition of her charming little book is illustrated by reproductions 

 of her own pictures of the scenes she puts before us so vividly. 



"Pi. dainty little volume, exhaling the perfume and radiating the hues of both culti- 

 vated and wild flowers, echoing the songs of birds, and illustrated with exquisite pen 

 pictures of bits of garden, field, and woodland scenery. The author is an intimate of 

 nature. She relishes its beauties with the keenest delight, and describes them with a 

 musical flow of language that carries us along from a ' May day ' to a ' winter mood ' in 

 a thoroughly sustained effort; and as we drift with the current of her fancy and her 

 tribute to nature, we gather much that is informatory, for she has made a close study of 

 the habits of birds and the legendry of flowers." — Richmond Dispatch, 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, 



(56 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 



