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BOOKS OF REFERENCE 



The books listed below will, it is believed, furnish the 

 necessary amount of additional information about the birds 

 treated in this Guide ; but no attempt has been made to 

 make the list exhaustive, and many excellent books have 

 been omitted. 



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MANUALS GIVING A DESCRIPTION AND ACCOUNT OF EACH BIRD. 



Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America. F. M. Chapman. 

 D. Appleton & Co., New York. 



The Land-Birds and Game-Birds of New England. H. D. Minot. 

 3d ed. Edited by William Brewster. Houghton, Mifflin & 

 Co., Boston. 



Birds of Village and Field. Florence A. Merriam. Houghton, 



Mifflin & Co., Boston. 

 Our Birds in Their Haunts. J. Hibbert Langille. (Out of print 



and hard to obtain.) 



Among the Water-Fowl. H. K. Job. Doubleday, Page & Co., 

 New York. 



The Water-Fowl Family. Leonard C. Sanford and others. The 

 Macmillan Co., New York. 



II 



TREATISES ON BIRD-LIFE IN GENERAL. 



Bird-Life. F. M. Chapman. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 

 The Bird Book. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. D. C. Heath & Co., 

 Boston. 



The Woodpeckers. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. Houghton, Mifflin 

 & Co., Boston. 



