

Photograph by Ernest Harold Bayiu 



MOTHER AND DAUGHTER 



This is a photograph of a wild chickadee feeding her young in June. She does not fear in sum- 

 in ei the hand that feeds her in winter 



Make Friends with Nature's 

 Feathered Wards in 



The Book of Birds 



200 Pages, Illuminated with 250 Matchless Subjects in Full Colors, 45 Illustrations 

 in Black and White, and 13 Striking Charts and Maps 



NO OTHER Nature-book ever published at a moderate price equals The Book of Birds 

 in the beauty of its illustrations, the fascinating quality of its authoritative text, and 

 the charming intimacy with which it introduces the reader to shy Friends of Forest and 

 Countryside, Seashore and Upland. 



The three principal divisions of this beautiful book are the contribution of the gifted 

 ornithologist and facile author, Henry W. Henshaw, formerly Chief of the United States 

 Biological Survey. Dr. Henshaw possesses to a marked degree the rare faculty of describ- 

 ing the haunts and habits of Nature's wild creatures with the ease and grace of the born 

 story-teller and with the insight and knowledge of the scientist equipped by wide experience 

 and exhaustive research. And no author has ever had a more gifted or more sympathetic 

 illustrating collaborator than has Dr. Henshaw in the noted naturalist-artist, Louis Agassiz 

 Fuertes, whose 250 bird portraits, reproduced in full colors in this superb volume, have pre- 

 served with wonderful fidelity not merely the richness of tint in plumage, but the animation 

 and the personality, so to speak, of each subject. 



An engaging chapter is contributed by F. H. Kennard on "Encouraging Birds Around 

 the Home." Mr. Kennard persuades the reader to become a conserver of bird life, whether 

 he be the possessor of a great estate or the owner of a window-sill. 



That mysterious impulse which Nature has implanted in so many of her creatures — the 

 migrating instinct— is the subject of a wonderful chapter by Professor Wells W. Cooke. 



George Shiras, 3rd, noted as a traveler and naturalist and as the inventor of a method 

 whereby birds and wild animals make their own portraits, gives a delightful account of pho- 

 tographing wild birds with a flashlight camera. 



The Book of Birds is a gift to delight the naturalist who can spend days in the forest, 

 the business man who has only an occasional hour in the woods, or the man or woman whose 

 sole acquaintance with birds is made in the city parks. Placed in the hand of a boy or girl, 

 it will inculcate an imperishable love of Nature and Nature's winged children. 



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