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 written, every word of it.... A more specific title for the volume would have suited me better, but not being able to satisfy myself in this direction, I cast about for a word thoroughly in the atmosphere and spirit of the book, which I hope I have found in "Wake-Robin"--the common name of the white Trillium, which blooms in all our woods, and which marks the arrival of all the birds.--Preface.