A BOOK FOR SPRING 



THE WARBLERS of 

 NORTH AMERICA 



By FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



Associate Curator of Ornithology and Mammalogy, American Museum of Natural History 



W^ith the cooperation of other Ornithologists 



IVith 24 full-page, colored plates, by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and 



Bruce Horsfall, illustrating the male, female and young 



plumages of every species, and eight full-page 



plates of nests and eggs 



THE INTRODUCTION 



treats of the General Characters, 

 Plumages, Distribution, Migra- 

 tion, Songs, Nesting Habits, Food 

 and Mortality of Warblers. 



THE BIOGRAPHIES 



average about five pages for each spe- 

 cies, and contain sections on distin- 

 guishing characters, together with 

 references to pertinent literature. 



'THE NATION" SAYS : 



We have had many books on the birds 

 of the United States and even on re- 

 stricted portions of the country, but this 

 is the first unteclinical monograph on any 

 single group of American birds. The 

 Wood Warblers, or Mniotilttda, com- 

 prise a typically New World group, 

 extending from Alaska to Argentina and 

 numbering some 155 species. Of these, 

 fifty-five are found north of Mexico ; and 

 it is of these, with their nineteen addi- 

 tional subspecies, that this volume treats. 

 It bids fair to remain an authority for a 

 long time. 



No keys to species are given, for the 

 excellent reason that every species in 

 male, female, and often in young plum- 

 age, is represented in color plates by 

 Fuertes and Horsfall — 124 figures in all 

 — excellent both as to drawing and 

 color. Among the contributions to the 

 book, Gerald Thayer's notes on songs 

 and habits are especially valuable. In 



the discussion of plumage, the mention 

 of the indications of common ancestry 

 betrayed by the nestling types of colora- 

 tion is of considerable importance, as are 

 also the suggestions as to the probable 

 origin of each genus. 



A list of bibliographical references 

 rounds out the treatment in a way which 

 leaves nothing to be desired. 



The nomenclature followed is that of 

 Ridgway's " Birds of North and Middle 

 America" — the most logical and all- 

 sufficient which has yet been evolved. 



Mr. Chapman's thorough knowledge 

 of the group, together with the free use 

 of the results of co-workers, has given us 

 in a form easy to consult, practically all 

 that we know about the northern species 

 of Miiiotiliidie. To the technical oini- 

 thologist, as well as to the amateur with 

 only the Myrtle and Yellow Warblers on 

 his " list," this volume will be of con- 

 stant use. 



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