Birds of America /
A comprehensive account of the birdlife of this continent arranged by order and including numerous drawings and color plates.
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Garden City, N.Y. :
Garden City Pub. Co.,
1936.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I
- Preface
- Introduction
- Out-door bird study
- Bird migration
- Order of diving birds
- Grebes
- Loons
- Auks, murres, and puffins
- Order of long-winged swimmers
- Skuas and jaegers
- Gulls
- Terns
- Skimmers
- Order of tube-nosed swimmers
- Albatrosses
- Fulmars, shearwaters, and petrels
- Order of totipalmated swimmers
- Tropic-birds
- Gannets
- Darters
- Cormorants
- Pelicans
- Man-o'-war-birds
- Orders of lamellirostral swimmers
- Mergansers
- Ducks
- Geese
- Swans
- Order of lamellirostral grallatores (flamingoes)
- Orders of herons, storks, ibises, etc
- Spoonbills, ibises and storks
- Heron family
- Order of marsh-dwellers
- Cranes and courlans
- Rails gallinules, and coots
- Order of shore birds
- Phalaropes
- Avocets and stilts
- Snipes, sandpipers, etc.
- Plovers
- Surf-birds and turnstones
- Oyster-catchers
- Part II
- Order of gallinaceous birds
- Bob-whites and quails
- Grouse
- Turkeys
- Pheasants
- Order of pigeons and doves
- Order of birds of prey
- Vultures
- Eagles, hawks, and kites
- Falcons
- Caracaras
- Ospreys
- Owls
- Order of parrot-like birds
- Order of cuckoos, etc.
- Cuckoo family
- Trogons
- Kingfishers
- Order of woodpeckers
- Orders of goatsuckers, swifts, etc.
- Goatsuckers
- Swifts
- Hummingbirds
- Order of perching birds
- Tyrant flycatchers
- Larks
- Crows and jays
- Starlings
- Icteridae
- Part III
- Order of perching birds, continued
- Finches
- Tanagers
- Swallows
- Waxwings and silky flycatchers
- Shrikes
- Vireos
- Warblers
- Wagtails and pipits
- Dippers
- Mimic thrushes
- Wrens
- Nuthatches and creepers
- Titmice
- Wren-tits
- Kinglets and gnatcatchers
- Thrushes
- Color keys
- Glossary.