''The greatest and best book ever written about birds.'' 



—Elliott Coues 



A DICTIONARY OF BIRDS 



By Alfred Newton 



Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, University of Cambridge 



Assisted by HANS F. GADOW, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM 



RICHARD LYDEKKER CHARLES S. ROY 



Author (with Sir W. H. FLOWER) of "An Intro- professor in the University of Cambridge 



duction. to the Study of Mammals," etc. 



ROBERT W. SHUFELDT 



Late U. S. Army. Author of "The Myology of the Raven," etc. 

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"/f is far and away the best hook ever written about birds. . . . the best 

 ' all - round ' book we have ever seen ; the one that best answers the purposes of 

 all readers; the one which conveys the most information per thousand ems; the 

 one which is freest from misstatements of any sort ; the one which is most cautious 

 and conservative in expression of opinions where opinions may reasonably differ ; 

 the one which is the most keenly critical, yet most eminently just in rendering 

 adverse decisions. . . ." —From an extended review in The Auk. 



"A very useful and concise volume, in which is to be found a vast amount of 

 varied information." _0 s_ ;„ j^ature. 



"It is a better introduction to ornithology and to ornithologists than has ever 

 been written before. . . indeed it is one to lie upon the desk of every worker 

 in this branch of natural history as an almost inexhaustible storehouse of facts he 

 needs to know." _^^^ ^^^.^„ 



" The most valuable and most interesting contribution ever made to the- 

 subject of which it treats." —Science 



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