Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and Music of Birds, Intended to Assist in the Identification of Species Common in the Eastern United States

In this beautifully written and well-illustrated guide to birds’ songs from 1904, Mathews describes 127 bird species, mostly of Eastern United States, and their songs. This fieldbook contains descriptions of the physical characteristics and habits of each, as well as detailed comments on their songs and calls. He includes musical scores of at least two songs for each species. Naturalist, bird lover, composer, and artist F. Schuyler Mathews studied the birds who frequented the woods and fields near his Campton, NH home. He translated the bird song he heard into musical notes and published his transcriptions and bird descriptions in his Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music in 1904.