Background:

These colorful Bird prints are from an 1886 children's natural history series published in the United States.  It features rich chromolithograph colors and accurate representations of the birds portrayed in natural settings.  The preface to the series comments "The pictures have been made its leading feature.  While it makes no pretensions as a text-book, it nevertheless contains a series of life-like pictures of the animal world, that compare favorably in accuracy of detail, with those of a carefully prepared scientific work."