BOOKS OF REFERENCE. 
Frank M. Chapman’s Handbook of Birds of Eastern North 
America, published by D. Appleton & Co. Cloth, $3.00. For an 
earnest amateur, this is emphatically the best book. It contains 
numerous keys for identification, complete and well-arranged data 
on distribution, nests, eggs, etc., and is adapted for use in any 
locality in Eastern North America. 
* Bird Life, by the same author and publisher. Cloth, $1.75, 
A more elementary and popular treatise than the above ; especially 
valuable for its illustrations by Ernest Seton Thompson and for 
its preliminary chapters on migration, economic ornithology, etc. 
*H. D. Minot’s Land and Game Birds of New England, 
edited by William Brewster, published by Houghton Mifflin & Co. 
Price, $3.50. Valuable for Mr. Brewster’s foot-notes concerning 
the distribution of each species in New England. 
Florence A. Merriam’s Birds of Village and Field. Houghton, 
Mifflin & Co. Price, $2.00. One of the most readable of the 
popular handbooks ; also has excellent keys and valuable sugges- 
tions for bird-study. For degznzners, this, and Chapman’s Bird Life 
are perhaps the most satisfactory. 
* J. B. Grant’s Our Common Birds. Handy for use in the 
field ; but adapted for New York rather than Massachusetts. 
Mabel Osgood Wright’s Citizen Bird. Designed especially 
for children ; the best of its kind. MacMillan. $1.50 met. 
Bird Craft, by the same author and publisher. Has numerous 
colored plates, not always satisfactory however. $2.50. 
*Neltje Blanchan’s Bird Neighbors. Has full-page colored 
plates, some of which are good, others very unsatisfactory. 
Doubleday and McClure, $2.00. 
H. E. Parkhurst’s How to Name the Birds. Adapted for New 
York. 
*W. A. Stearns’s New England Bird Life. 
Notz — Most of these books can be obtained by teachers at a discount of from 20 to 30 
per cent. from their published prices. 
*In Andover Public Library. 
