Stories about birds of land and water
A juvenile natural history book by the sisters Mary and Elizabeth Kirby, published in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1874 for young readers. Its wood-engraved pictures show birds in naturalistic settings, with a perched songbird on a bare branch, a pair of birds in a tree, a ground bird in a rocky landscape, and a large bird with spread wings, drawn in fine parallel hatching that a designer could borrow for botanical or field-guide style work.
