THE BIRDS 



OF 



Eastern North America 



KNOWN TO OCCUR EAST OF THE NINETIETH MERIDIAN 



WATER BIRDS 



PART I 



KEY TO THE FAMILIES AND SPECIES 



BY 



CHARLES B. CORY 



Curator of the Department of Ornithology in the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago ; Vice-President of 



the American Ornithologists' Union ; Fellow of the Linmcan and Zoological Societies of London : 



Member of the British Ornithologi-ts'' Union ; Honorary Member of the California 



Academy of Sciences ; Cor. Member Nezo York Academy of Sciences, etc , etc. 



Al'TIIOK ()!•■ '-THI-. liKAl'lUUl. AND CUIUOUS BlKUS OK THE WoKI.D," "TlIK lilKDS OK lUli BAHAMA 



Islands," "The Birds of Haiti and San Dominco," " The Bikds ob the West Indies," 



"A Naturalist in the Macdalen Islands," " IIuntinc; and Fishing 



IN Florida," '-Key to the Water Birds of Florida," "How to 



KNOW the Shore Birds of North America," "How to 



know the Ducks, Geese, and Swans," etc., etc. 



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