of song and garden birds 
Here is an hour of listening pleasure — our winged world’s 
best singers. You’ll find it makes bird identification 
in the field easier and more enjoyable. 
And, with your book— 
BIRD SONG RECORDINGS! 
"Song and Garden Birds of North America” 
is a singing bird book ! A unique album of six 
double-faced phonograph records (331/3 r.p.m.) 
brings 70 bird songs and sounds into your 
living room. 
These transparent plastic records are indexed — colored 
circles quickly guide your phonograph needle to each 
bird sound, as the illustration below indicates. The records 
are permanently bound into the album— so you just flip any 
one to the top of the stack and put the entire album on 
your turntable! And you store the album in a pocket at the 
back of your bird book. 
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Album 6% x 6% inches 
Tour amazing neighbors.... 
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ACCORDING TO ARISTOTLE, 
swallows hibernate by submerging in swamps. 
An even stranger claim was made a few cen- 
turies later — birds pass the winter journeying 
to the moon ! 
Fanciful theories, these, but hardly more 
incredible than the true facts about the winged 
wonders overhead. Did you know that one spe- 
cies of hawk can reach speeds of nearly 1 80 miles 
per hour — or that ducks sometimes fly higher 
than 20,000 feet during their long migrations? 
More and more people today look up and 
see not just “birds” — but cardinals and chick- 
adees and golden-winged warblers. Some of 
nature’s most intriguing creatures are your 
everyday neighbors! How can the same feather 
follicle of a scarlet tanager sprout a red feather 
in the spring and a green one in the fall? How 
can a hummingbird possibly fly backwards? 
And, most challenging of all — what can you do 
to attract those bright flashes of color and song 
to your backyard? 
Can you identify 
these birds? 
Each is shown beside an egg of 
its species. Now write the correct 
picture number in each box. 
Eggs are shown full-scale to give 
you a clue to the bird's size. 
□ Barn Swallow 
□ Loggerhead Shrike 
□ Yellowthroat 
□ Blackcapped Chickadee 
□ White-breasted Nuthatch 
□ Common Crow 
□ Red-eyed Vireo 
□ Western Kingbird 
□ Red-winged Blackbird 
□ Kingfisher 
□ Summer Tanager 
□ Dickcissel 
□ Ruby-throated Hummingbird 
Lift page for answers 
Just published! By the National Geographic Society 
