CONTENTS 
List of Illustrations .ix 
Introduction.. 
Acknowledgments.xxv 
Collecting and preparing Birds, Nests, and Eggs. By Vernon 
Bailey xxvi 
Collecting Birds.xxvi 
Measuring. xxv ii 
Making Bird Skins.xxviii 
Skinning. xx i x 
Stuffing. . 
Labeling. . 
Sexing. . 
Collecting and preserving Eggs and Nests .... xxxi 
Note-Taking, Note-Books, and Journals.xxxiii 
Life Zones........... xxxiii 
Migration. xxxvi 
Economic Ornithology ........ xxxvii 
Bird Protection. By Theodore S. Palmer .... xxxix 
Local Bird Lists.xliii 
Portland, Oregon. By A. W. Anthony.xliii 
San Francisco Bay. By William H. Kobb£ .... xlviii 
Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains. By Walter 
K. Fisher.li 
Pasadena, California. By Joseph Grinnell . . . . lvi 
Fort Sherman, Idaho. By J. C. Merrill .... lxiv 
Cheyenne, Wyoming. By Frank Bond .... Ixix 
Pinal, Pima, and Gila Counties, Arizona. By W. E. D. Scott lxxiv 
Books of Reference.lxxxiii 
Use of Handbook Keys.lxxxviii 
BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES WEST OF THE ONE 
HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN. 
Key to Orders.1 
Key to Families of Water Birds.. 2 
