x RECREATION. 
‘°A Work to Delight the Sportsman and the Naturalist.” 
BIRDS THAT HUNT 
AND ARE HUNTED 
N this handsome volume the author of “Bird Neighbors” 
describes 170 of our more common game birds, water fowl 
and birds of prey, Mr G. O. Shields (editor of Recreatzon) 
having furnished introduction and annotations. It has 48 mag- 
nificent full-page colored plates showing birds in life-like poses, 
and has been repeatedly pronounced the finest book for sportsmen 
in existence. Ten thousand copies have already been printed 
since its publication last year. 
The following notices, selected from a great mass of com- 
mendatory reviews, give an idea of the critical appreciation which 
has greeted the work: 
“ Sportsmen will especially relish the forty-eight colored plates, which show the 
more tmportant birds in characteristic poses. They are probably the most valuable 
and artistic pictures of the kind available to-day. There is a charm of reality in 
the author's presentations utterly fascinating to the sportsman. . . . To the 
ordinary observer, these plates will repay close study and prove a sure means of 
identification.” —Literature. 
“< The style 7s simple and graphic. A careful description of each bird, with 
record of the changes in plumage the season brings, is followed by. such notes of its 
habitat as are most characteristic or interesting. But the superb plates alone 
could identify each specimen. . . .’ No more authoritative and sympathetic work 
in this particular field has yet appeared, and we heartily commend it to nature 
lovers.” —Boston Transcript. 
“TItts a book that will win the favor of the bird lover at ne: sight. A close 
examination only strengthens the first favorable impression. . . . + The colored 
plates of this volume area greater triumph in their way than the a paintings 
of Audubon and Wilson, because they are equally beautiful and absolutely accurate, 
yet are within reach of ‘the most modest purse. This ts what modern science has 
done for the popularizing of natural history.”—Chicago Tribune. 
Size, 734x1034; Pages, 359; Type, 10-point; ee vaste green cloth; Illustrations, 48 colored plates; 
rice, $2.0 
THER books illustrated with the same remarkable colored 
plates are Neltje Blanchan’s ‘“ Bird Neighbors” (23d thou- 
sand; 52 plates; price $2.00), a companion volume to the 
above; and Dr. W. J. Holland’s “ Butterfly Book” (5th thou- 
sand; $3.00 net), whose 48 colored plates and many text cuts 
illustrate every important American species. 
Any of these books sent, postpaid, “on approval.” After examining send us 
either the money or the book, (or they can be found in any book store.) 
DOUBLEDAY & [IcCLURE CO. 
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