This week's new art offerings from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection depicting St. Francis of Assisi will be of special interest to bird-watchers. All four prints from East European ex libris makers illustrate the "green" saint's famous sermon to the birds. In Czech Artist Emil Kotrba's traditional wood engraving (left) of the scene, there are at least a dozen species of bird to identify, including a hummingbird, crane, pheasant, swallow, and puffin. In Latvian Printmaker Natalija Cernetsova's etching, you have to look very closely to find birds fluttering about the hands of the long-robed saint, while Russian Ex Libris Maker Nina Kazimova incorporates them into the pattern of leaves surrounding St. Francis in her decorative etching/aquatint. Lithuanian Artist Antanas Kmieliauskas completes the quartet of new images with a cubist-styled mixed media book plate of the Birdman of Assisi preaching to his feathered flock under the All-Seeing Eye of God. These new Franciscan-themed prints can be found in the gallery of the East European Ex Libris page in the Schools of Sacred Art section. (John Kohan)