Page:Condor14(1).djvu/54

 THE BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA A magnificent work. equal to Audubon's Birds.--ducation, Boston. By $ACOB 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 bL Chapman. and adopted by the American Ornithologists' Ui,ion. There is no Oruithology 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 grit top. has always ben sold for 10.00. OUR $PECIAI 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 WINIlRED A. STEARNS By DR. ELLIOTT COUES Illustrated with numerous cuts and figures. 2 vols., crown $vo, cloth. Boston [1881-83]. Published at $5.00. OUR SPECIAL PRICE ............................................ $1.75 VOLUME l.--Oscines (Singing Birds). The most complete cyclopedia of the sing/ng 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 llycatchers, 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 1. Baird. 3 vols., (large) 8vo, and folio of plates, 76 engraved and 27 litho- graphed (105 together), cloth (as new), Phila., Porter and Coates. No date ............ $25.00 Chapters on the Natural History of the United States By DR. R. W. SHUIELDT Issued under the Austices of the IVatural Science Association of America This volume is a handsomely printed royal octavo of about 40o pages. illustrated by many full-page plates and numerous text figures. In scheme the book consists of a series of chatstern devoted to the lite histories ot many of the better-known mammals, birds, tlsh, reidtiles, and insects ot 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- fete with the popular presentation of the subject matter as a whole. One of the chief features of the work consists in the elegant half-tone glates relroduced rom a remarhable series ot ghalograghs, all made by Dr. Shuteldt himseli rom the living torres. Fully four-fifths of these are of the size of life, and present the subjects in their characteristic attitudes. and grequently 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 ae 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. $hufeldt. is well known as an eminent writer on popular and scientific natural history. for many years Associate Zoologist at the $mithsonian Institution, Royal Octavo. Extra Cloth. Gold Top, 480 Pages. New York. 1900. Published for $$.50 net. OUR SPECIAL PRICE $1.00. FREDERICK LOESER & CO. o,d a.d Rar..ook Oprtm..t xn eve detail the leading retail establishment of rookly. BROOKLYN - NEW YORK Have your name added to our mailing list for Old Book Catalogues of Natural History
 * This item has brought much more than what we ask.