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Learn the Birds

at your first acquaintance with them. You’ll never forget them if you jot down a complete description of each one while you watch it. By using the BIRD NOTE BOOK you record the essential markings and structure in a few seconds, and can refer to your colored plates after the bird is gone. This method impresses the bird on the memory indelibly. Also aids teachers and class-leaders. Universally approved.

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Food for Nesting Birds

If you want birds to nest near you, you must supply them with food. No food will attract insectivorous birds more effectively than Mealworms. The old birds eat them and also give them to their young. Mealworms should be fed from a shallow tin, glass or china vessel that stands at some shaded place, free of the sun’s rays. Place in it the worms you wish to feed that day, and also a little bran. That is their food. A treat for the fishes, etc., in your aquarium, to keep them active and in good health. A good clean bait for fishing with rod and line. A choice food for your young pheasants. (See U. S. Farmers’ Bulletin No. 390.)

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The Bird Is Astonishingly Interesting

But so is the tree or shrub, the insects on which the bird feeds, the rock on which you sit; yes, even the joy and pathos of the call of the owl and whippoorwill are enhanced by the stars. ALL nature is our theme.

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These useful and beautiful colored portraits of birds are issued by the National Association of Audubon Societies, which will send on request a list of nearly 100 kinds of native American birds for your choice.

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The Educational Leaflets OF THE National Association of Audubon Societies

¶ The best means of learning the birds of your neighborhood, and of teaching your children. ¶ Each leaflet describes the habits and utility of one bird, and contains a detached colored plate and an outline sketch of its subject. ¶ The Colored Plates are faithful portraits of the birds, yet treated artistically, as is shown by the examples in the border. No better pictures of their> kind exist. (Plates not sold separately.) ¶ The Outlines are unshaded copies of the plates, intended to be colored—the best method of fixing facts in a young mind. ¶ These Leaflets, 85 in number, are sold singly at 2 cents each, or in a bound volume (Nos. 1 to 59) at> $1.75. A list will be sent on request to the

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A BIRD BOOK FOR TEACHERS

By FRANK M. CHAPMAN

is especially adapted to the use of teachers. There are 75 full-page colored plates figuring 100 common birds. The Biographies are so arranged that they may be used in supplemental reading. The Introductory Chapters treat of the bird’s place in nature and its relations to man, including its esthetic and economic value; the wings, tail, bill, and feet of birds and their uses, the colors of birds and what they mean, bird migration, the voice of birds, birds’ nests and eggs.

An Appendix throws all this matter into the form of lessons, reviews the bird-life of a year, tells of the more interesting events of each month, and gives lists of the birds which may be looked for at certain seasons.

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New, Revised Edition of the

Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America

By FRANK M. CHAPMAN

Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History

With Plates in Colors and Black and White, by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES, and Text Illustrations by TAPPAN ADNEY and ERNEST THOMPSON-SETON

The text of the preceding edition has been thoroughly revised and much of it rewritten. The nomenclature and ranges of the latest edition of the “Check-List” of the American Ornithologists’ Union have been adopted. Migration records from Oberlin, Ohio, Glen Ellyn, Ill., and Southeastern Minnesota, numerous nesting dates for every species, and many biographical references have been added; the descriptions of plumage emended to represent the great increase in our knowledge of this branch of ornithology; and, in short, the work has been enlarged to the limit imposed by true handbook size and brought fully up-to-date.

In addition to possessing all the features which made the old “Handbook” at once popular and authoritative, the new “Handbook” contains an Introduction of over 100 pages on “How to Study the Birds in Nature,” which will be of the utmost value to all students of living birds.

The subjects of distribution, migration, song, nesting, color, food, structure and habit, intelligence, and allied problems are here treated in a manner designed to arouse interest and stimulate and direct original observation.

A Biographical Appendix, giving the titles to all the leading works and papers (including faunal lists) on the Birds of Eastern North America, shows just what has been published on the birds of a given region, a matter of the first importance to the local student.

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THE WARBLERS of NORTH AMERICA

By FRANK M. CHAPMAN and others

Twenty-four colored plates by Fuertes and Horsfall, illustrating male, female and immature plumages.

Three hundred and six pages of text treating of the color characters, field-marks, range, migration, haunts, songs, nest and eggs of each species.

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Transcriber’s Notes

All obvious typographical errors were corrected. Some alternate spelling of words were retained as printed (i.e., Indorsement, despatched, etc.). Two of the ads had words with spaced letters; but it was assumed here that was to “justify” the text without having excessive space between words.

Typographical Corrections

On page 97, Auriparus flaviceps Camprocephalus → Auriparus flaviceps lamprocephalus.