SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

 UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



SPECIAL BULLETIN. 



LIFE HISTORIES 



01' 



NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 



FROM THE PAEROTS TO THE GRACKLES, 



WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO 



THEIR BREEDING HABITS AND EGGS, 



CHARLES BENDIEE, Captain and Beevet Major, U. S. A. (Retired). 



Honorary Curator of the Department of Ooloyij, U. S. National Mvseum, 

 Member of the American Oi-nithologists' Union. 



SEVEN LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. 



WASHINGTON: 



GOVEKNMBNT PRINTING OFFICE, 

 1895. 





