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Books Dealing with Special Groups of Birds 
The Warblers of North America, by Frank M. Chapman; D. Appleton & Company. 
North American Land Birds, by Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway; Little, Brown, & Co., 3vols. 
Reprint of the original. 
The Water-birds of the series was originally published in Memoirs of the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 1884, but is now out of print and very 
difficult to obtain. 
The Game Birds of California, by Grinned, Bryant, and Storer; University of California 
Press. Berkeley, California, 1918. 
A work of great value to the sportsman and the conservationist. Almost as 
applicable to Canada as to California. 
Life Histories of North American Birds, by A. C. Bent, United States National Museum, 
Washington. Diving Birds, Bulletin 107, 1919. Gulls and Terns, Bulletin 113, 1921. 
Petrels, Pelicans, and their Allies, Bulletin 121, 1922. Wild Fowl, Ducks, Part I to 
Ringneck, Bulletin 126. 
Others to follow as rapidly as possible. This is a monumental work in which, as 
far as possible, all sources of information have been exhausted in the treatment of 
life history and plumage sequences of North American birds. It is a continuation 
of — 
Life Histories of North American Birds, by Major Chas. Bendire, United States National 
Museum. Vol. I, Gallinaceous Birds, the Pigeons and Birds of Prey, Special Bulletin 
No. 1, 1892. Vol. II, Parrots to the Grackles, Special Bulletin (unnumbered) 1895. 
Unfortunately these are both out of print and very rare. 
Books of Special Geographical Interest 
The Birds of Manitoba, by Ernest Thompson Seton. Proceedings U.S. National Museum, 
XIII, 1890, pp. 457-641. 
A complete annotated list of the birds of Manitoba as known at that time, with 
much valuable information as to occurrence, distribution, and life-history notes. 
Fauna of Manitoba, Birds, by Ernest Thompson Seton, British Association Handbook,. 
1909. 
This is a summarized reprint of the above brought up to date of publication. 
Catalogue of the Birds of Saskatchewan, by H. Hedley Mitchell. The Canadian Field 
Naturalist, XXXVIII, Special Number, 1924, pp. 101-118. Separates also obtainable 
from the Department of Agriculture, Regina, Sask. This is a list with distributions 
of all birds known to occur in the province. 
A Biological Investigation of the Hudson Bay Region, by Edward A. Preble, U.S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey, North American Fauna No. 22, 
1902. Of particular application to northern Manitoba. 
A Biological Investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region, by Edward A. Preble, 
United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Biological Survey, North Ameri- 
can Fauna No. 27, Washington, 1909. 
The bird section of this work. pp. 251-500. is of particular value, summarizing as it 
does all the information available on the Northwest Territories and the western 
Arctic islands. It deals mostly with the distribution of species. 
Guide to Natural History and Ethnological Exhibitions in the Provincial Museum of 
British Columbia, Victoria, B.C., 1909. 
The list of birds, pp. 21-71, is in effect a catalogue of the birds of the province 
developed from the Check-list of British Columbia Birds by John Fannin, published 
by the Museum, 1898. It is merely distributional. 
Report on a Collection of Birds and Mammals from Vancouver Island, by Harry S. Swarth, 
University of California, Publications in Zoology, vol. 10, No. 1, 1912. Birds, pp. 
13-113. 
This should form the basic list for future development of check-lists of the birds 
of Vancouver island and contains critical studies of species and subspecies as well as 
their distribution. 
Birds and Mammals of the Stikine River Region of Northern British Columbiaand South- 
eastern Alaska, by Harry S. Swarth, University of California, Publication in Zoo- 
logy, vol. 24, No. 2, 1922. Birds, pp. 194-308. 
Birds and Mammals of the Skeena River Region of Northern British Columbia, by Harry 
S. Swarth, University of California, Publications in Zoology, vol. 24, No. 3, 1924. 
Birds, pp. 323-372, 
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