BAILEY, F.M.
Handbook of Birds of the Western United States.
Illustrated by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
Houghton. 3.50
Systematically arranged. Descriptions technical but simplified,
and illustrated with cuts in the text, which explain the
technical terms and make it available for students. It has no
color key, but field keys, fully illustrated in the text.
Biographies popularly treated. Intended for students of the life
and habits of the birds of our Western States. The only book of
its character for that region.
AUDUBON SOCIETY.
There are thirty-three full-page plates by Mr. Fuertes, and over six
hundred small illustrations. For the use of beginners a brief field
color key to genera of some of the common Passerine birds is given in
an appendix.
BURROUGHS, JOHN.
Wake-Robin.
Houghton. 1.25
This is mainly a book about the birds, or more properly an
invitation to the study of Ornithology.... I have reaped my
harvest more in the woods than in the study; what I offer, in
fact, is a careful and conscientious record of actual
observations and experiences, and is true as it stands (p.
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