"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 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 great and rapidly growing 

 class of Nature-lovers who would 'name the birds 

 without a gun.' In no other text-book has the prob- 

 lem of identification been so simplified. 



There are no technical terms to learn, no puzzling 

 synopses to analyze; but having seen a bird you have 

 only to turn to that section of the book in which birds 

 of its order and color are placed, look for its picture, 

 and verify your selection by reading the statement of 

 its diagnostic markings and geographic range. As a 

 further aid to field identification, descriptions of the 

 birds' calls and songs are given. 



In short, the book is an illustrated dictionary of 



North American birds, so arranged that one may 



learn a bird's name with the 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 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. HEED, 

 75 Thomas Street, Worcester, Mass. 



