THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA 
A magnificent work, equal to Audubon's Birds. — Education, Boston. 
By JACOB H. STUDER 
This Book contains 119 beautifully colored plates, 12x15 in., representing over 800 birds, drawn and colored from life 
by Dr. Theodore Jasper. The shades of color, the fall of the plumage, the characteristic attitude, and the botanical 
surroundings are wonderfully exact. The text, which Dr. Elliott Coues pronounced “perfectly reliable,” covers 182 
pages, and is based on the field observations of the most eminent ornithologists. The whole is prefaced by a sys- 
tematic table and index to page, plate, and figure, arranged according to the classification which was prepared by 
Frank M. Chapman, and adopted by the American Ornithologists’ Union. There is no Ornithology now in print to 
compare with this magnificent work, its merits being attested to by the most renowned ornithologists of the day. 
The Book, which is an imperial quarto, and bound in half russia leather, with cloth sides and gilt top, has always 
been sold for $40.00. OUR SPECIAE PRICE, including express charges, is $ 10 . 00 . 
NEW ENGLAND BIRD LIFE 
Being a Manual of New England Ornithology 
Revised and Edited from the manuscript of WINIFRED A. STEARNS 
By DR. ELLIOTT COUES 
Illustrated with numerous cuts and figures. 2 vols. , crown 8vo, cloth. Boston [1881-83] . 
Published at $5.00. OUR SPECIAL PRICE $ 1.75 
VOLUME I. — Oscines (Singing Birds). 
The most complete cyclopedia of the singing birds of New England ever published. 
VOLUME II. — Non Oscine Passeres, Birds of Prey, Game and Water Birds. 
Covers not only New England, but the entire northern section of the U. S., and Canada, includ- 
ing Flycatchers, Whippoorwills and Nighthawks, Swifts, Hummingbirds, Kingfishers, Cuckoos, 
Woodpeckers, Owls, Hawks, American Vultures, Pigeons, Turkeys, Grouse, Partridges, Plovers, 
Oyster-catchers, Avocets, Stilts, Phalaropes, Snipe, Geese and Ducks, Gannets, Pelicans, Cormo- 
rants, Jaegers, Gulls, Terns, Skimmers, etc., etc. 
WILSON (ALEX.) AND BONAPARTE (C. L.). American Ornithology; or the Natural 
History of the Birds of the United States. Illustrated with plates. With a sketch of the life 
of Wilson. By George Ord, and a Classification of the Genera and Species of American 
Birds. By Spencer F. Baird. 3 vols., (large) 8vo, and folio of plates, 76 engraved and 27 litho- 
graphed (103 together) , cloth (as new), Phila., Porter and Coates. No date $25.00 
* This item has brought much more than what we ask. 
Chapters on the Natural History of the United States 
By DR. R. W. SHUFELDT 
Issued under the Auspices of the Natural Science Association of America 
This volume is a handsomely printed royal octavo of about 401) pages, illustrated by many full-page plates and 
numerous text figures. In scheme the book consists of a series of chapters devoted to the life histories of many of the 
better-known mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and insects of the United States, written in a thoroughly instructive and 
popular style. Scientific technicalities are, however, not altogether ignored, but are so incorporated as not to inter- 
fere vsdth the popular presentation of the subject matter as a whole. One of the chief features of the work consists in 
the elegant half-tone plates reproduced from a remarkable series of photographs, all made by Dr, Shufeldt himself from 
the living forms. Fully four-fifths of these are of the size of life, and present the subjects in their characteristic 
attitudes, and frequently with all the natural surroundings of their haunts in nature. From this point of view alone, 
these figures constitute a series highly calculated to help teachers and parents throughout the world; to 'educate 
students and pupils of all ages in the correct appreciation of form of living creatures; and finally, to stand as models 
of great value for the use of artists and taxidermists. Indeed, the work cannot fail to be but of the greatest use to 
teachers in the public schools throughout the United States, while in the library of the general reader it will fill the 
place of one of a class of works upon natural history, which, in the age of biological literature, are only too rarely 
produced, given over, as a majority of them are, to the more technical treatment and aspects of science. The author. 
Dr. Robert W. Shufeldt, is well known as an eminent writer on popular and scientific natural history, for many years 
Associate Zoologist at the Smithsonian Institution, 
Royal Octavo, Extra Cloth, Gold Top, 480 Pages. New York, 1900. 
Published for $3.50 net. OUR SPECIAL PRICE $1.00. 
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