Bird Biographies

								


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                            BIRD BIOGRAPHIES

                       A GUIDE-BOOK FOR BEGINNERS

 An Introduction to 150 Common Land Birds of the Eastern United States



                                   BY

                             ALICE E. BALL

                   Author of "A YEAR WITH THE BIRDS"



                             ILLUSTRATED BY

                         ROBERT BRUCE HORSFALL
Painter of Backgrounds in Habitat, Groups American Museum of Natural

                         History New York City



                           56 COLORED PLATES



                     NEW YORK

                         DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY

                                  1923



                            Copyright, 1923.

                     By DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, Inc.

                          PRINTED IN U. S. A.



                          VAIL-BALLOU COMPANY

                        BINGHAMTON AND NEW YORK



                              TO MY FRIEND

                            ELIZABETH JONES
IN LOVING ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF HER UNTIRING AID, UNWAVERING FAITH, AND

                          INSPIRING CRITICISM

                         THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

                            ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

In the "Foreword" of this book I express my grateful appreciation to Dr.
A. K. Fisher and Mr. E. H. Forbush for permission to use extracts from
published works. I wish to add my thanks to Dr. Charles Richmond and Mr.
Joseph Riley of the National Museum of Washington, for their courtesy in
furnishing me with bird-skins from the National Museum collections and a
copy of the A. O. U. Check-list of 1910, used for the descriptions and
ranges of the birds described in the text.
I am indebted to Dr. John M. Clarke, Director of the State Museum of the
University of New York, for the permission to make selections from
Eaton's "Birds of New York"; also to Dr. Francis H. Herrick, of Western
Reserve University, and Dr. Alexander Wetmore, of the Biological Survey,
for the right to quote from their publications.
The selections from John Burroughs, Thoreau, Frank Bolles, Dallas Lore
Sharp, Florence Merriam, Olive Thorne Miller, Henry W. Longfellow, E. R.
Sill, Celia Thaxter, Lucy Larcom, and Edna Dean Proctor, are used by
permission of, and by special arrangement with, The Houghton Mifflin
Co., the authorized publishers. Three selections from Wilson Flagg's
"Birds of New England" are used by special arrangement with the Page Co.
of Boston.
To the Courtesy of D. Appleton & Co. I am indebted for the right to
quote one stanza of Bryant's "To a Waterfowl," dates and selections from
Frank M. Chapman's "Birds of Eastern North America"; to G. P. Putman's