"A Complete Bird Dictionary." 

 ^COLOR KEY*»- 



TO 



NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



BY 



FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF ORNITHOLOGY AND MAMMALOGY 

 IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



Author of "Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America," 

 "Bird-Life," Etc. 



With Upwatrd of 800 DröLwings 

 By CHESTER. A. R.EED. B. S. 



Illustpating in Colons Nearly Every Species of North American Birds. 



This is a book for that 

 class of Nature-lovers who 

 without a gun,' In no other 

 lern of Identification been so 



There are no technical 

 synopses to analyze; but hav- 

 only to turn to that section of 

 of its Order and color are 

 and verify your selection by 

 its diagnostic markings and 

 further aid to field identifi- 

 birds' calls and songs are 



In sliort, the book is an 

 North American birds, so 

 learn a bird's name with the 



great and rapidly growing 



would 'name the birds 



text-book has the prob- 



simplified. 



terms to learn, nopuzzling 



ing Seen a bird you have 



the book in which birds 



placed, look for its picture, 



reading the Statement of 



geographic ränge. As a 



cation, descriptions of the 



given. 



illustrated dictionary of 



arranged that one may 



least possible difficulty. 



Each Order of birds is preceded by an introduction giving a general account 

 of the habits of the families of birds included in it, a feature of the work which 

 should make it especially useful to teachers. 



For students who desire to know how and why birds are classified, there is a 

 Key to Orders and Families of North American Birds, with life-size drawings 

 illustrating one or more characteristic species of every family, and a system- 

 atic table, which includes the birds found north of Mexico. 



No other populär work treats of all the birds of this great area. The book is 

 therefore equally useful in any part of the country from the Atlantic to the Pac- 

 ific, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean. 



^^ PRICE S2.50 ^^ 



CHAS. K. R.EED, 



75 Thomats Street. Worcester, Mass. 



