PREFACE 



seems essential and adding nothing for the sake of "pad- 

 ding." The colored pictures are from water-color paint- 

 ings made directly from perfectly plumaged specimens and, 

 I believe, faithfully represent each species in a pose commonly 

 assumed in life. 



I sincerely hope that "Birds of Eastern North America" 

 may give pleasure and profit to the reader, and that it may 

 be the means of adding many new members to that great 

 fraternal order known as " Friends of the Birds." 



Chester A. Reed. 

 Worcester, April, 1912. 



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