Opinions of Ornithologists on Part I. 
I have to thank you very heartily for a copy of the beautiful nests and eggs. I had no idea that so 
sumptuous and elegant a publication was in preparation, and am pleased that what promises to be one of the 
great illustrated works on North American Ornithology should be prepared by women. I think the plates 
are really artistic, as well as faithful and natural, and the text is lucid, pointed, and in every way appropriate. 
You have undertaken a splendid enterprise, which cannot fail of success, if it meets with support commensu¬ 
rate with its merits. 
DR. ELLIOTT COUES, Washington, D. C. 
Author of Key to N. A. Birds, etc., etc. 
My enthusiasm has not been so excited for a long while. After careful consideration I can think of no hook 
of Natural History in which the beauties of art and of nature are so largely combined. Others have repre¬ 
sented birds, butterflies and flowers wonderfully well; but you have had superior difficulties to overcome. Your 
picture of the Wood Thrush’s nest and eggs is a master piece, and if the other plates are any less interest¬ 
ing, it is only from the nature of their subjects. It is remarkable that in all of them the details and the gen¬ 
eral effect are equally good. As to the press work, its nicety and elegance are very .attractive. I say this all 
sincerely, after several years’ close study of bird’s nests and eggs, and after experience in the difficulty of 
drawing and painting from nature such subjects as you have chosen. 
H. D. MINOT, Litchfield, Conn. 
Author of Land and Game Birds of New England. 
I am very happy to welcome so magnificent an addition to the literature of my favorite study. The accuracy 
and artistic excellence of the illustrations, as well as the neat and concise manner in which the accompanying 
text has been prepared, should entitle it to the most cordial reception at the hand of all lovers of nature. 
ERANK M. LANGDON, M. D., Madisonville, Ohio. 
The text of Part I. is most excellent 
sequence of detail, is also admirable, 
work which is too good to fail. 
; clear, concise, and accurate in every respect. The arrangement, or 
Accept my best wishes for the future prosperous continuance of the 
WM. BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. 
I was astonished and delighted with the work. The plates are marvels of truthfulness to nature, and only 
equaled by the artistic excellence of their execution. 
CHARLES DURY, Avondale, Hamilton County, Ohio. 
I have examined the specimen number of “Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio.’' I 
welcome the work as a superb contribution to ornithological science and especially to our local literature. The 
text is full and complete, exhibiting perfect familiarity with the subject treated. The drawings are superb and 
exquisitely colored. I have never seen anything to compare with them. nmmmAv ,, 
J. M. WHEATON, M. D. 
Ornithologist Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, Ohio. 
