With Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.
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BIRD NEIGHBORS. An Introductory Acquaintance with 150 Birds Commonly
Found in the Woods, Fields and Gardens About Our Homes. By Neltje
Blanchan. With an Introduction by John Burroughs, and many plates of
birds in natural colors. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4x10-3/8, Cloth.
Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.
As an aid to the elementary study of bird life nothing has ever
been published more satisfactory than this most successful of
Nature Books. This book makes the identification of our birds
simple and positive, even to the uninitiated, through certain
unique features. I. All the birds are grouped according to color,
in the belief that a bird's coloring is the first and often the
only characteristic noticed. II. By another classification, the
birds are grouped according to their season. III. All the popular
names by which a bird is known are given both in the descriptions
and the index. The colored plates are the most beautiful and
accurate ever given in a moderate-priced and popular book. The most
successful and widely sold Nature Book yet published.
BIRDS THAT HUNT AND ARE HUNTED. Life Histories of 170 Birds of Prey,
Game Birds and Water-Fowls. By Neltje Blanchan. With Introduction by G.
O. Shields (Coquina). 24 photographic illustrations in color. Large
Quarto, size 7-3/4x10-3/8. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special
price, $1.00.
No work of its class has ever been issued that contains so much
valuable information, presented with such felicity and charm. The
colored plates are true to nature. By their aid alone any bird
illustrated may be readily identified. Sportsmen will especially
relish the twenty-four color plates which show the more important
birds in characteristic poses. They are probably the most valuable
and artistic pictures of the kind available to-day.
NATURE'S GARDEN. An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their
Insect Visitors. 24 colored plates, and many other illustrations
photographed directly from nature. Text by Neltje Blanchan. Large
Quarto, size 7-3/4x10-3/8. Cloth. Formerly published at $3.00 net. Our
special price, $1.25.
Superb color portraits of many familiar flowers in their living
tints, and no less beautiful pictures in black and white of
others--each blossom photographed directly from nature--form an
unrivaled series. By their aid alone the novice can name the
flowers met afield.
Intimate life-histories of over five hundred species of wild
flowers, written in untechnical, vivid language, emphasize the
marvelously interesting and vital relationship existing between
these flowers and the special insect to which each is adapted.
The flowers are divided into five color groups, because by this
arrangement any one with no knowledge of botany whatever can
readily identify the specimens met during a walk. The various
popular names by which each species is known, its preferred
dwelling-place, months of blooming and geographical distribution
follow its description. Lists of berry-bearing and other plants
most conspicuous after the flowering season, of such as grow
together in different kinds of soil, and finally of family groups
arranged by that method of scientific classification adopted by the
International Botanical Congress which has now superseded all
others, combine to make "Nature's Garden" an indispensable guide.