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THE OOLOGISt's DIRECTORY. 
"OUR BIRDS IN TIjEIR pUNTS" 
Published by S. E. Casino & Co., of Boston, Mass., of the size known as octavo, 
cut down, and contains 624 pages in long primer, having 
twenty-five fine cuts mostly by Shepherd. 
The first main feature is to popularize the science of ornithology for Eastern 
North America. Hence readableness of style is a specialty ; narration of life his- 
tories in the order of the seasons, noting the moods of nature in which the various 
species appear to the best advantage; full attention to bird-music, including the 
items of physical structure and the conditions which give compass and character to 
their melodies ; the various ways of locating and constructing the nests, and the 
beauty and variety of the eggs and notice of the curious and facinating, of which 
there is so much in the lives of birds. Hence, also, the reader is transported to the 
fields, the forests, the swamps, the streams, the lakes and the ocean to view the 
birds in their natural haunts. 
Secondly, The deeper, grander and more comprehensive principles of bird-life 
are brought fully into notice and simplified to the reader, as the mechanical laws of 
flight, the aerated condition of the bones and body generally, peculiarities of nidi- 
fication, structure and uses of feathers, migration, etc. 
A tJiird feature is the attention given to the evidences of a Designing Intel- 
ligence, as afforded so unmistakably in the structure and instinctive impress of habit 
in birds. This should make the work of special interest to the religious teacher. 
A foti7-(k\\.tm. is that the work is written mainly from personal observation, in- 
cluding a full report of the ornithology of Western New York and the adjoining 
regions of the Great Lakes, a pretty full report for Nova Scotia, and a good deal of 
direct information from Hudson's Bay, through an excellent correspondent. This 
last feature of original investigation, should make the work of importance to the 
scientist. Price $3.00. Clubs of 5 at ^2.00 per copy. 
Published by S. E. Casino & Co., Boston Mass. 
Hyannisport, Mass., Aug. io, 1884. 
Rev. J. H. Langille, Buff"alo, N. Y. : 
Dear Sir. The copy of "Our Birds in Their Haunts" you sent me some days 
since, was duly received and has been examined with pleasure and deep interest. 
Considered as a popular work, its plan seems to have been happily conceived, while 
each page bears evidence of the writer's intense love of nature and his ability not 
only to observe intelligently, but to express felicitously the aspects of nature and 
varied traits of bird-life that come under rt view. It is evidently the work of not 
only an enthusiastic bird-lover and field naturalist, but of a writer who is fully 
competent for the pleasant task he has undertaken. As a popular exposition of the 
live-histories of the birds of Eastern North America, "Our Birds in Their Haunts" will 
doubtless meet with the cordial welcome it so well deserves; while its freshness and 
originality make the work a valuable contribution to the literature of North Amer- 
ican ornithology. 
Thanking you most heartily for the pleasure its perusal has afforded me, 
Sincerily yours, J. A. ALLEN, 
Pi-es. of (he Am, Ornithologist^ s Union a)id Editor 0/ the ^^Auk," Cambridge, Mass. 
