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TRE BIRDS 



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Eastern North America 



KNOWN TO OCCUR EAST OF THE NINETIETH MERIDIAN 



WATER BIRDS ^^^^ 



PART I 



^ . KEY TO THE FAMILIES AND SPECIES 



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"^g BY 



CHARLES B. CORY 



Curator of the Department of Ormlkoloi^y in the Field Coluinhian Museuiii, Chicago ; Vice-President of 



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



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



Academy of Sciences ; Cor. Member A^e-cu^Vork Academy of Sciences, etc , etc. 



AUTHlJK (IK '-THK BkAUTIKUI. AND CUKIOUS BiRDS OF THE WoKLIl," "THK BlKDS ()K IIIE BAHAMA 



Islands," "The Bikds of Haiti and San Domingo," " Thk Birds of iHii: West Indies," 



"A Naturalist in the Magdalen Islands," "Hunting 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. 



SPECIAL EDITION I'UINTEI) FOR THE 



FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSP:UM, CHICAGO, ILL. 



1899 



