. American ornithology for the home and school . so a selected list ofspecimens, curios and publications which are being closedout at one-fourth rates. Other lists are to follow as timewill permit. All are Free upon request. Write today. Methods in the Art o/ TcLjctdermj^ By Oliver Davie. Author of Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, etc. J^inety f^uU p^age ]^ngravings. chiefly drawn by THEODORE JASPER, A. M., M. D., the whole containing five-hundred figures, clearly illustrating the modes of procedure in the art, together withexamples of characteristic forms and attitudes of various speci
. American ornithology for the home and school . so a selected list ofspecimens, curios and publications which are being closedout at one-fourth rates. Other lists are to follow as timewill permit. All are Free upon request. Write today. Methods in the Art o/ TcLjctdermj^ By Oliver Davie. Author of Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, etc. J^inety f^uU p^age ]^ngravings. chiefly drawn by THEODORE JASPER, A. M., M. D., the whole containing five-hundred figures, clearly illustrating the modes of procedure in the art, together withexamples of characteristic forms and attitudes of various species of the animal king-dom, including reproductions from photographs of actual work by American taxider-mists. Never before has the art of taxidermy had its practical methods and beauties por-trayed as we find them interpreted in this work. It is a work of art from cover tocover. FORMERLY PUBLISHED AT $ MY PRIOR ONLiY a:. REED, STATIO/^ A, _ _ . WORCESTER, MA^STST. This book should be in the librarv of every ■a-(j-a-u-a-a-a-i. Vol. I. ^yipril, 1901. JVo. 4- WOOD DUCK. O. \/.JWo. 14-4-. (Aejc jponsa.) RANGE. From Hudson Bay to Gulf of Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pa-cific. They breed practically throughout their range. DESCRIPTION. Male.—Length, i8 inches; extent, 28 inches; tail inches. Bill.—Tip black; oblong spot of white between nostril and lip; remainder pur-plish red, changing to scarlet back of nostril, and outlined at the base withyellow. Legs and feet, olive yellow; webs dusk). Eyelid and eye, red. Forehead and crest, green and purple metallic hues. A v. bite line ex-tends from bill, over eye to end of crest; also one from back of eye to baseof crest. Cheeks, violet and purple. Side and back of neck, violetgreen, as is also the back and tail. The white on throat extends, in acrescent, across base of neck and also back of cheek to the eye. Wings chiefly black with metallic greenish reflections. Outer webs ofprim
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