ransas JLUMT REFERENCE O be ROOM T. T , *KEft ROOM From the collection of the z _n m i Prelinger a oJibrary p San Francisco, California 2006 REFERENCE THE BIRD BOOK PASSENGER OR WILD PIGEON Female Male Young 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 ,- 1 BARN OWL Tr^o^ \oes V nneY --M^ TOPOGRAPHY OP A BIRD TABLE OF CONTENTS Diving Birds. Order I. Pygopodes Grebes. Family Colymbidas Loons. Family Gaviidse 10 11 17 21 35 35 Auks, Murres and Puffins. Family Alcidae Long-winged Swimmers. Order II. Longipennes Skuas and Jaegers. Family Stercoraridse Gulls and Terns. Family Laridae 38 58 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 ...