CAMPS AND CRUISES 



OF AN 



ORNITHOLOGIST 



By FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



"One of the most instructive and most delightfully interesting 

 l)ooks of the kind that has ever been written." — Theodore Roosevelt. 



CONTENTS 



PART I — Travels About Home 

 The Ways of Jays. Bird-Nesting with Burroughs. 



A Morning with Meadowlarks. A Nighthawk Incident. 



PART II — The Bird-Life of Two Atlantic Coast Islands 



Gardiner's Island. Cobb's Island. 



PART III— Florida Bird-Life 

 Pelican Island. The American Egret. 



The Florida Great Blue Heron Cuthbert Rookery, 



and the Water Turkey. 



PART IV — Bahama Bird-Life 

 The Flamingo. The Booby and the Man-o'-War Birds. 



The Egg Birds. 



PART V— The Story of Three Western Bird Groups 

 The Prairie Hen. Cactus Desert Bird-Life. 



A Golden Eagle's Nest. 



PART VI — Bird Studies in California 

 The Mountains at Piru. The San Joaquin Valley at Los Banos. 



The Coast at Monterey. Lower Klamath Lake. 



The Farallones. The Sierras. 



PART VII— Bird-Life in Western Canada 

 The Prairies. The Mountains. 



The Plains. The White Pelican. 



PART VIII 

 Impressions of English Bird-Life. 



With 250 Remarkable Photographs 



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