D. APPLETON AND COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS. 



T)IRD-LIFE. A Guide to the Study of our Common 

 Birds. By Frank M. Chapman, Assistant Curator of Mam- 

 malogy and Ornithology, American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory ; Author of " Handbook of Birds of Eastern North Amer- 

 ica.*' With 75 full-page Plates and numerous Text Drawings 

 by Ernest Seton Thompson. i2mo. Cloth, $1.75. 



" ' Bird-Life ' is different trom other books. It deals with birds that are familiar nr 

 half familiar ; it interests the ignorant reader at once, and it makes the relations between 

 birds and men seem more intimate. I'he economic value of birds will be better appre- 

 ciated after reading this book." — Boston Herald. 



" Contains more information about birds, in the same space, attractively as well as 

 concisely st.ited, than can be found in any other book with which we are acquainted. 



. . A delightful, valuable, instiuctive, entertaining, beautiful book." Brooklyn 



Standard-Union, 



" Most heartily can ' Bird- Life* be commended. It is by a practical ornithologist, 

 but It IS simple and comprehensible. It is compact, pointed, clear. . . The work is 

 perfectly reliable. . . . The author uses every line to give information. A straightfor- 

 ward and very compact guide-book to bird-laud." — Bartjord Post. 



" An intelligent consideration of the book will add to the reader's pleasure in his 

 walks in field and wood, quicken his ear, make him hear and see things which before 

 went unnoticed. . . . Gives the student 3n introduction to ornitholngy, which places 

 hiin on the threshold of the entrance to the innermost circles of h'nd-Mft."— Boston 

 Tz/nes. 



'•Mr. Chapman's book ought to be as greatly in demand in the average household 

 as a history of ones country." — Proviaeiice yoarnal. 



I' The illustrations are undoubtedly the best bird drawings ever produced in Amer- 

 ica." — Recreation. 



*'A comprehensive book, one that is sufficient for all the ordinary needs of the 

 amateur ornithologist. It is satisfactory in every detail, and arranged with a care and 

 method that will draw praise from the highest sources. Every lover of outdoor lifewill 

 find this book a delightful companion and an invaluable aid.'' — Bii^alo Eugnher. 



" A volume exceptionally well adapted to the requirements of people who wish to 

 study common birds in the simplest and most profitable manner poss^ible. ... As a 

 readily intelligible and authoritative guide this manual has qualities that will commend 

 It at once to the attention of the discerning student."— Boston Bcaccn. 



'* Such a study as every intelligent reader will desire to make, even the busiest of 

 them. ... The auihor is in every way fitted for the task he has taken, and his book 

 abounds in its facts of value, and they are pleasingly and gracefully told."— C/wflj^t? 

 Inter- Ocean. 



V^" ^"^^""^^ting mass of data collected through years of study and observation. . .. 

 While accurate from a scientific point of view, it makes delightful reading for those who 

 will soon be among the flowers and the ^^\d%,"'— Philadelphia Inquirer. 



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