A sumptuous volume by this name, with hand-painted full-page illustrations of eggs and nests and an elaborate commentary, was produced by a family of prodigies from Circleville, Ohio. It is in many senses a companion volume to John James Audubon's illustrated work on the birds of America. Only about a hundred copies of this extraordinary hand-made work were produced, and only a few dozen are known to be in existence today. Joy Kiser, once librarian at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, later on the staff of the Smithsonian Institution, has written a valuable companion to this work, "America's Other Audubon," which reproduces the illustrations in color and provides the moving story of the efforts and sacrifices of the Jones family in seeing it through the long and costly--in life and treasure--effort of its production. You can see scans of the original rare book at http://archive.org/details/Illustrationsne1Jone . A page from the Smithsonian on the Jones's work is at http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/nestsandeggs/ . An announcement from the publisher is at http://www.papress.com/html/book.details.page.tpl?isbn=9781616890599 . Illustrated guides to birds' eggs have been suppressed since the banning of trade in eggs, so here is help. Here also is a stirring story of sacrifice by a rural family to produce a work that brought high praise from the nation's foremost ornithologists. Here is a story from an era in Ohio when birds were more various and closer to human lives, and Kiser's book brings it all to life. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]