BIRD BOOKS 
BY MRS. FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY 
BIRDS OF VILLAGE AND FIELD 
A Bird Book for Beginners. With over 300 Illustrations. 
i2mo, $2.00 
“ The accuracy of the writer’s statements and the breezy originality of 
her bits of bird biography commend her work to every bird lover, be he 
scientifically or otherwise minded. ... Its ‘ Outline for Field Observa¬ 
tions ’ is probably the most complete key as to the proper use to make of 
one’s eyes in the field ever formulated.”— Science (New York). 
BIRDS THROUGH AN OPERA GLASS 
In Riverside Library for Young People. Illustrated. 
i6mo, 75 cents 
“ Its title sufficiently reveals its purpose, which is to invite laymen, and 
lay women as well, to the woods and pastures, where, glass in hand, they 
are to seek an introduction to the birds, study their habits, and by so 
doing gain at once a knowledge of bird life which books cannot supply, 
and reap the sure rewards which Nature always confers on her votaries. 
... A book wisely planned, well written, and sure to please its readers.” 
— New York Evening Post. 
A-BIRDING ON A BRONCO 
With many Illustrations. i6mo, $1.25 
“ Every lover of nature is indebted to Florence A. Merriam for her de¬ 
lightful book. The reader goes over the prairies, through the hedges and 
woods, with this writer. There is evinced a rare sympathy with bird life 
that gains revelations of these shy creatures, of their home ways.” — The 
Outlook (New York). 
HANDBOOK OF BIRDS OF THE WESTERN 
UNITED STATES 
With 34 full-page and numerous text Illustrations. 12mo, 
$3.50, ne t* Postpaid, $3.69. 
This book fills a growing demand for a manual of the birds of the West 
which should do for that part of the country what Mr. Chapman’s 
“ Handbook ” does for eastern North America. There are several hun¬ 
dred illustrations, including thirty-three full-page plates from drawings by 
Louis Agassiz Fuertes. 
“The work is the most complete text-book of regional ornithology 
which has ever been published.” — Mr. Frank M. Chapman , in Bird Lore . 
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York 
