PART FIVE: SUPPLEMENTARY DATA 

 CHAPTER XII 



BOOKS, PUBLICATIONS, SOCIETIES, ETC. 



I have stated that the only volume needed 

 in connection with the present book was one 

 containing the colored plates of the birds herein 

 described. Now, however, having learned fifty 

 of our most common species, you must have a 

 reference book to identify the hundred odd more 

 you may meet with in your locality. The most 

 reliable and the most thoroly useful book will 

 prove to be Chapman's Handbook of Birds, 

 which will contain any species you may meet in 

 Eastern North America and with which, if you 

 get a good description of your bird, you stand 

 the best chance of learning its identity. 



If you are utterly puzzled and ignorant of the 

 family of your bird, try my Key in the Appendix. 

 However, by this time you should know by the 

 form of the bill, tail, wings or some special 

 markings to what family the bird in question 

 belongs and therefore should be able to turn 

 directly to the Key of that family, or to the 

 description of its various members in the Hand- 

 book. This, with the book of colored plates, will 

 suffice for the work, but as an aid the following 

 stand high in ornithological literature: 

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