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Chapter 36: Birds of the United States
By Charles Frederick Holder
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Aimed at students and general readers, this reader presents accessible half-hour chapters on lower forms of animal life, from microscopic protozoans through sponges, corals, echinoderms, worms, mollusks, crustaceans, and insects. Each chapter combines clear descriptions of structure, behavior, life cycles, and habitats with practical observations, illustrative anecdotes, and plates to aid visual understanding. Emphasis falls on economic relations and regional faunas, including Pacific coast species, while technical classification is minimized in favor of observational habits, collecting tips, and explanations suited for school use or self-study.

Birds of the United States

A Manual for the Identification of Species East of the Rocky Mountains

By Austin C. Apgar

Author of "Trees of the Northern United States," etc.

Cloth, 12mo, 415 pages, with numerous illustrations. Price, $2.00

The object of this book is to encourage the study of Birds by making it a pleasant and easy task. The treatment, while thoroughly scientific and accurate, is interesting and popular in form and attractive to the reader or student. It covers the following divisions and subjects:

Part I. A general description of Birds and an explanation of the technical terms used by ornithologists.

Part II. Classification and description of each species with Key.

Part III. The study of Birds in the field, with Key for their identification.

Part IV. Preparation of Bird specimens.

The descriptions of the several species have been prepared with great care and present several advantages over those in other books. They are short and so expressed that they may be recalled readily while looking at the bird. They are thus especially adapted for field use. The illustrations were drawn especially for this work. Their number, scientific accuracy, and careful execution add much to the value and interest of the book. The general Key to Land and Water Birds and a very full index make the book convenient and serviceable both for the study and for field work.

Apgar's Birds of the United States will be sent, prepaid, to any address on receipt of the price by the Publishers:

American Book Company

NEW YORK ◆ CINCINNATI ◆ CHICAGO