Webster, 409 Washington Street, Boston. $7.50.

Especially designed for use in the determination of species.

"Ill.u.s.trated Natural History: Birds." Rev. J.G. Wood. Routledge, London, 1861. Price about $4.00. Get the original edition.

To a bird taxidermist this is the most valuable book ever published in a single volume, because of its wealth of excellent ill.u.s.trations. Of special value in mounting strange foreign birds. Beware of the later editions.

"Studer's Birds of North America." Ill.u.s.trated by Theodore Jasper. Large royal quarto. Jacob H. Studer, New York. $25.00.

Contains 119 plates, and a colored figure of every species of North American bird known at the date of its publication. A notable work. The ill.u.s.trations are of great value to young taxidermists as models by which to mount birds.

"Birds of North America." J.J. Audubon.

This superb work is out of print; rare and costly. The octavo edition is to be found in most large libraries, however, and every bird taxidermist should at least know where the copy nearest to him is to be found, and how to gain access to it in time of need.

"Oology of New England." E.A. Capen. Sold by Frank B. Webster, 409 Washington Street, Boston. $8.75.

This is the finest ill.u.s.trated work on birds' eggs ever published in this country.

ON REPTILES.

"Ill.u.s.trated Natural History: Reptiles." Rev. J.G. Wood. Routledge, London, 1861.

Uniform with volumes on Mammals and Birds.

ON FISHES.

"American Fishes." G. Brown Goode. Standard Book Co., New York, 1888.

$5.00.

An elegant work, of convenient size. Comprehensive and eminently useful.

Fully ill.u.s.trated. No collector or student of American fishes can afford to be without it.

"The Fishery Industries of the United States." Section I. By G. Brown Goode and a.s.sociates. 2 vols. Complete and exhaustive, both in text and plates, and very valuable. Government publication. Sold at cost by the U.S. Fish Commission, Washington.

"Introduction to the Study of Fishes." Albert Gunther. A. & C. Black, Edinburgh.

ON INSECTS.

See the end of Chapter XLIV.

ON INVERTEBRATES.

"The Ocean World." Louis Figuier. Ca.s.sell & Co., New York. $2.50.

"Recent and Fossil Sh.e.l.ls." S.P. Woodward, London. John Weale, 1856. (Apply to Bernard Quaritch, London.)

A very handy and useful manual for the field. Many ill.u.s.trations. Price about $1.50.

"Structural and Systematic Conchology." Geo. W. Tryon. Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. $12.00.

A great work; complete, exhaustive, and richly ill.u.s.trated.

FOR SUGGESTIONS OF GROUPS OF ANIMALS.

"Homes Without Hands." Rev. J.G. Wood. Longmans, Green & Co., London. Price about $3.00.

"Mammalia in Word and Picture." Specht and Vogt, already described.

MISCELLANEOUS.

"The Sportsman's Library," as advertised by the _Forest and Stream_ Publishing Company, 318 Broadway, New York, contains an attractive and valuable selection of books on subjects of special interest to the sportsman, naturalist, and traveller. It includes books by specialists on such subjects as "Camping and Trapping," "Hunting and Shooting," "Angling,"

"Boating and Yachting," "Guide-Books and Maps," "Horse," "Kennel," "Natural History," and miscellaneous works. The list, as a whole, is an excellent one to select from.

Of course no one with a spark of interest in hunting and the natural history of the higher vertebrates will be without _Forest and Stream_--a whole sportsman's and naturalist's library in itself,--or _The Field_, or _Sports Afield_. No young ornithologist can get along without his best friend, the _Ornithologist and Oologist_, and it would indeed be rank heresy for the professional bird-man to ignore the stately and infallible _Auk_.