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Title: The Bird Book
Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred
North American birds; also several hundred photographs of
their nests and eggs

Author: Chester A. Reed

Release Date: September 15, 2009 [EBook #30000]

Language: English

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THE BIRD BOOK
[Illustration: 003]

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[Illustration: 004
PASSENGER OR WILD PIGEON
Female. Male. Young.]

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THE BIRD BOOK

ILLUSTRATING IN NATURAL COLORS
MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED
NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS;
ALSO SEVERAL HUNDRED
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEIR
NESTS AND EGGS

BY

CHESTER A. REED, B. S.

[Illustration 005: Printer's Mark.]

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

1915

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_Copyright, 1914, by_
CHARLES K. REED

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian._

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[Illustration 007: BARN OWL.]

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[Illustration 008: TOPOGRAPHY OF A BIRD.]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Diving Birds. Order I. Pygopodes 10
Grebes. Family Colymbidae 11
Loons. Family Gaviidae 17
Auks, Murres and Puffins.