oston Journal_.

_FAMILIAR TREES AND THEIR LEAVES._

By F. SCHUYLER MATHEWS, author of "Familiar Flowers of Field and
Garden," "The Beautiful Flower Garden," etc. Illustrated with over 200
Drawings from Nature by the Author, and giving the botanical names and
habitat of each tree and recording the precise character and coloring of
its leafage. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

"It is not often that we find a book which deserves such unreserved
commendation. It is commendable for several reasons: it is a book
that has been needed for a long time, it is written in a popular
and attractive style, it is accurately and profusely illustrated,
and it is by an authority on the subject of which it
treats."--_Public Opinion_.

_FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN._ By F. SCHUYLER MATHEWS.
Illustrated with 200 Drawings by the Author. 12mo. Library Edition,
cloth, $1.75; Pocket Edition, flexible morocco, $2.25.

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student and the lover of flowers.... The text is full of compact
information, well selected and interestingly presented.... It seems
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D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.

FRANK M. CHAPMAN'S BOOKS.

=Bird Studies with a Camera.=

With Introductory Chapters on the Outfit and Methods of the Bird
Photographer. By FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate
Zoology in the American Museum of Natural History; Author of "Handbook
of Birds of Eastern North America" and "Bird-Life." Illustrated with
over 100 Photographs from Nature by the Author. 12mo. Cloth.

Bird students and photographers will find that this book possesses
for them a unique interest and value. It contains fascinating
accounts of the habits of some of our common birds and descriptions
of the largest bird colonies existing in eastern North America;
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Nature not only lends to the illustrations the charm of realism,
but makes the book a record of surprising achievements with the
camera. Several of these illustrations have been described by
experts as "the most remarkable photographs of wild life we have
ever seen." The book is practical as well as descriptive, and in
the opening chapters the questions of camera, lens, plates, blinds,
decoys, and other pert