Word: birds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Edward E. Hall contributes a paper on "Epping Forest" and Mr. John Burroughs writes of "Bird Courtship." Mr. Brander Matthews' "Two Studies of the South" ends the number...
...birds about 110 are Oscines. This means only that their vocal organs are of the same kind as the true singers' - it does not follow that they can all sing, and there are many that cannot, as the crow and the blue jay, while there are several sweet singers among the non-oscines. We have about 40 good singers. English critics say that our bird chorus is not to be compared with their own. It may be true that there is no one American songster like the skylark, but England can show only 23 song birds to our forty...
...Ornithology of the United States of America." This book itself was published in 1832, and being the first handbook of the subject ever published it came into instant favor. But there is evidently much original work in Mr. Chamberlain's book, which is very comprehensive and includes every known bird of today in this part of the country. No bird that can be found east of the Mississippi River, from the Gulf stream to the Arctic Ocean is omitted from the list - even the penguin and frigate, or man-of-war bird, - which have nearly vanished from this country...
...edition is in two volumes, the first dealing with land birds, the second with game and water birds. At the beginning of each chapter is an excellent print of the bird described, followed by a brief description of the plumage, the nest and eggs. The biographies are full and interesting, giving the distribution of the birds, place of habitation, food, time of migration, etc., besides many anecdotes of an entertaining and instructive character. The original footnotes and remarks on the appearance or distribution of the birds, as observed today, are very valuable to the student...
...concluding article of the number is another addition to the constantly-accumulating Lowell magazine literature, - on "Lowell and the Birds." Its author is Leander S. Keyser, whose new bird book is attracting so much attention among bird lovers...