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THE BIRD BOOK
ILLUSTRATING IN NATURAL COLORS
MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED
NORTH AMERICAN
ALSO SEVERAL
NESTS
HUNDRED
BIRDS;
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEIR
AND EGGS
BY
CHESTER
A.
REED,
B. S.
NEW YORK PAGE & COMPANY DOUBLEDAY,
GARDEN CITY
I9IS
Copyright, 1914, by
CHARLES
K.
REED
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Diving Birds. Order I. Pygopodes Grebes. Family Colymbidas Loons. Family Gaviidse
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Auks, Murres and Puffins. Family Alcidae Long-winged Swimmers. Order II. Longipennes Skuas and Jaegers. Family Stercoraridse Gulls and Terns. Family Laridae
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Skimmers. Family Rynchopidse Tube-nosed Swimmers. Order III. Tubinares Albatrosses. Family Diomedeidae Fulmars, Shearwaters and Petrels. Family Procellariidae Totipalmate Swimmers. Order IV. Steganopodes Tropic Birds. Family Phaethontidas Gannets. Family Sulidae Darters. Family Anhingidae Cormorants. Family Phalacrocoracidae Pelicans. Family Pelecanidae Man-o'-War Birds. Family Fregatidse Lamellirostral ...