Description:

One of the Third Series, Useful Birds of America cards was packed in each package of Arm and Hammer Soda and Saleratus. The company would send a complete set of 30 for six two-cent stamps. The following are in the Sliker Collection: No. 1 Dickcissel; No. 2 Summer Tanager; No. 3 Painted Bunting; No. 4 Varied Bunting; No. 5 Lazuli Bunting; No. 6 American Magpie; No. 7 Prothonotary Warbler; No. 8 White-Winged Crossbill; No. 9 Bay-Breasted Warbler; No. 10 House Wren; No. 11 Scott Oriole; No. 12 Red-Winged Blackbird; No. 13 Orchard Oriole; No. 14 Phoebe; No. 15 Western Tanager; No. 16 Arkansas Kingbird; No. 17 Black-Throated Blue Warbler; No. 18 Black-Capped Chickadee; No. 19 California Jay; No. 20 Veery; No. 21 Ovenbird; No. 23 Green-Tailed Towhee; No. 24 Cowbird; No. 25 Boblink; No. 26 Green Jay; No. 27 White-Throated Swift; No. 28 Canada Warbler; No. 29 Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher; and No. 30 American Three-Toed Woodpecker.