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A DICTIONARY OF BIRDS
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By Alfred Newton

Professor of Zoölogy and Comparative Anatomy, University of Cambridge

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RICHARD LYDEKKER
Author (with Sir W. H. FLOWER) of "An Introduction
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Professor in the University of Cambridge

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Late U. S. Army. Author of "The Myology of the Raven," etc.

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Being Volume IX of the Cambridge Natural History

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Assisted by
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Author (with Sir W. H. FLOWER) of "An Introduction
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BIRDS Being VOLUME IX of the
===== Cambridge Natural History

By A. H. EVANS, M. A.
Clare College, Cambridge

EDITED BY AND

S. F. HARMER, Sc.D., F.R.S. A. E. SHIPLEY, M. A.

Fellow of King's College, Cambridge Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge
Superintendent of the University Lecturer on
University Museum of Zoölogy the Morphology of Invertebrates

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_BIRDCRAFT..._

_A Field Book of Two Hundred Song,
Game and Water Birds..._
BY
Mabel Osgood Wright

"_Attractive, interesting
and helpful, and should be
in the library of every
lover of birds._"--_Science_

Author of "Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts,"
"Citizen Bird," "Four-footed Americans and
their Kin."

With Eighty Plates by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES

Third edition. Small 4to, $2.50

_ENTICINGLY WRITTEN_

"It is more than an accurate and comprehensive description of all
the birds one is likely to find in an extended search. It is also an
introduction to them and their haunts, so enticingly written that the
reader at once falls in love with them, and becomes an enthusiast in
their pursuit. * * * The scientific part of the work is equally well
done."

--_Evening Bulletin_, Philadelphia

_CITIZEN BIRD_

_SCENES FROM BIRD-LIFE IN PLAIN ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS..._

BY

Mabel O. Wright and Dr. Elliott Coues

Profusely Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Heart of Nature Series. Cloth, Crown 8vo, $1.50 Net

"An extremely praiseworthy attempt to teach children about our domestic birds, by encouraging them to observe the living creatures rather than the inanimate 'specimen.' More than a hundred accurate and spirited illustrations add greatly to the attractiveness of the volume."--_The Nation_

"_By far the best bird book for boys and girls yet published in America._"

--C. H. M. in _Science_

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