"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. 



Wfth Upward of 800 Drawings 

 By CHESTER. A. REED. B. S. 



Illustrating in Colors Nearly Every Species of North American Birds. 



This is a book for that 

 class of Nature-lovers who 

 without a gun.' In no other 

 lem 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 short, 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, no puzzling 

 ing seen a bird you have 

 the book in which birds 

 placed, look for its picture, 

 reading the statement of 

 geographic range. As a 

 cation, descriptions of the 

 given. 



illustrated dictionary of 

 arranged that one may 

 east 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 popular 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 $2.50 ^ 



chas. k. r.ee;d, 



75 Thoma.s Street, Worcester, Mass. 



