A First Book of Birds. 
By OLIVE THORNE MILLER. With twenty full 
page illustrations, eight of which are colorec 
Square i2mo. $1.00. 
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RS. MILLER, to whom lovers of birds are so much indebted for h 
charming books, now adds to our obligation by a bird book intendi 
for children. It describes birds’nests, the young birds,— their growt 
and how they are fed, how they get their feathers, and are taught to fly. The 
it tells of the language of birds, their food, their migrations, their mental ar. 
moral development, their structure, their economic value to mankind. In shor 
it may be called a small encyclopaedia of birds, full of information and exceed 
ingly interesting. Its value and interest are greatly increased by many picture 
of birds. 
The Woodpeckers. 
By Mrs. FANNIE HARDY ECKSTORM. Wit, 
five Colored Illustrations by Louis Agassi 
Fuertes, and other illustrations in the tex 
Square i2mo. $1.00. 
T HIS is a new departure among bird books. Mrs. Eckstorm has taken ‘ 
single group of birds, — a family of marked individuality, the severij) 
species of which are for the most part easily observed and identified, ; 
family which is represented in all parts of our country, — and she has given ,; 
lively yet accurate and orderly account of this family, treating somewh . 
exhaustively of five of the commonest species, and less fully of the otherLT 
There are also several chapters on the habits of woodpeckers in general, a>., 
on their structural peculiarities. Their four tools of trade — bill, foot, tail, ai. 
tongue—receive special attention. The volume is attractively illustrated. 
Sold by all Booksellers. Sent , postpaid , by 
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, Boston, 
ii East 17th Street, New York. 
