4, 200 different, for #50c#.

#Postage Stamps Bought and Sold.#

#F. WENDT,#
_#75 State St., CHICAGO.#_

Please mention "BIRDS" when you write to Advertisers.

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#BIRDS#

ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY

#A MONTHLY SERIAL#

DESIGNED TO PROMOTE

#KNOWLEDGE OF BIRD-LIFE#

"With cheerful hop from perch to spray,
They sport along the meads;
In social bliss together stray,
Where love or fancy leads.

Through spring's gay scenes each happy pair
Their fluttering joys pursue;
Its various charms and produce share,
Forever kind and true."

CHICAGO, U. S. A.
NATURE STUDY PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
1896

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PREFACE.

It has become a universal custom to obtain and preserve the likenesses
of one's friends. Photographs are the most popular form of these
likenesses, as they give the true exterior outlines and appearance,
(except coloring) of the subjects. But how much more popular and
useful does photography become, when it can be used as a means of
securing plates from which to print photographs in a regular printing
press, and, what is more astonishing and delightful, to produce the
REAL COLORS of nature as shown in the subject, no matter how brilliant
or varied.

We quote from the December number of the Ladies' Home Journal:

"_An excellent_ suggestion was recently made by the Department of
Agriculture at Washington that the public schools of the country shall
have a new holiday, to be known as Bird Day. Three cities have already
adopted the suggestion, and it is likely that others will quickly
follow. Of course, Bird Day will differ from its successful
predecessor, Arbor Day. We can plant trees but not birds. It is
suggested that Bird Day take the form of bird exhibitions, of bird
exercises, of bird studies--any form of entertainment, in fact, which
will bring children closer to their little brethren of the air, and
in more intelligent sympathy with their life and ways. There is a
wonderful story in bird life, and but few of our children know it. Few
of our elders do, for that matter. A whole day o