A Guide to the Birds of New England and Eastern New York: Containing a Key for Each Season and Short Descriptions of Over Two Hundred and Fifty Species with Particular Reference to Their Appearance in the Field

xiii, 357 pp. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine and front board. With four full-page plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and nearly one hundred cuts in the text. CONTENTS: Introduction; Keys; Birds of New England and Eastern New York: Perching Birds: Order Passeres; Goatsuckers, Swifts, Hummingbirds, Etc.: Order Macrochiers; Woodpeckers, Etc.: Order Pici; Cuckoos, Kingfishers, Etc.: Order Coccyges; Birds of Prey: Order Raptores; Pigeons: Order Columbae; Gallinaceaous Birds: Order Gallinae; Shore Birds: Order Limicolae; Ralis, Etc.: Order Paludicolae; Herons, Etc.: Order Herodiones; Ducks, Geese, Swans: Order Anseres; Cormorants, Gannets, Etc.: ORder Steganopodes; Petrels, Shearwaters, Etc.: Order Tubinares; Terns, Gulls, and Jaegers: Order Longipennes; Diving Birds: Order Pygopodes; Appendix: A. Lists of Birds Breeding in the Three Life-Zones of New England and Eastern New York; B. Books of Reference; Index.