Handbook of Birds 



of Eastern North America 



By FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



Curator of Birds, American Museum of Natural History 



With Plates in Colors and Black and White, by LOUIS 

 AGASSIZ FUERTES, and Text Illustrations by 

 TAPPAN ADNEY and ERNEST THOMPSON SETON 



The text of the preceding edition has been thoroughly 

 revised and much of it rewritten. The nomenclature and 

 ranges of the latest edition of the "Check-List" of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union have been adopted. 

 Migration records from Oberlin, Ohio, Glen Ellyn, 111., 

 and Southeastern Minnesota, numerous nesting dates for 

 every species, and many biographical references have 

 been added; the descriptions of plumage emended to 

 represent the great increase in our knowledge of this 

 branch of ornithology; and, in short, the work has been 

 enlarged to the limit imposed by true handbook size and 

 brought fully up-to-date. 



In addition to possessing all the features which made 

 the old "Handbook" at once popular and authoritative, 

 the new "Handbook" contains an Introduction of over 

 loo pages on "How to Study the Birds in Nature," 

 which will be of the utmost value to all students of liv- 

 ing birds. 



The subjects of distribution, migration, song, nesting, 

 color, food, structure and habit, intelligence, and allied 

 problems are here treated in a manner designed to arouse 

 interest and stimulate and direct original observation. 



A Biographical Appendix, giving the titles to all the 

 leading works and papers (including faunal lists) on the 

 Birds of Eastern North America, shows just what has 

 been published on the birds of a given region, a matter 

 of the first importance to the local student. 



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