Ocean State Libraries

A color-illustrated guide to more than eight hundred species of North American birds, describing their habitats, migration routes, flight patterns, behavior, feeding habits, and other characteristics, and providing sonograms of bird calls and maps of geographic ranges.

A guide to approximately 200 of the most commonly viewed American wildflowers, with 134 color paintings. Flowers are grouped bycolor.

An illustrated handbook of common fishes of North America, examining the characteristics, range, and description of twenty-two groups including herring-like fish, butterfly fishes and angelfishes, jacks, and sharks and rays.

Provides charts, tables, and instructions for the amateur astronomer on how, where, and when to observe stars, constellations, and planets. Also discusses meteors, comets, eclipses, and other celestial objects.