Birds of America

xliv, 289 pp. A guide to North American birds, illustrated with 106 color plates from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and black-and-white photographs and drawings by various contributors. CONTENTS: PART I: Preface; Introduction; Out-Door Bird Study; Bird Migration; Order of Diving Birds: Grebes; Loons; Auks, Murres, and Puffins; Order of Long-Winged Swimmers: Skuas and Jaegers; Gulls; Terns; Skimmers; Order of Tube-Nosed Swimmers: Albatrosses; Fulmars, Shearwaters, and Petrels; Order of Totipalmated Swimmers: Tropic-Birds; Gannets; Darters; Cormorants; Pelicans; Man-o'-War-Birds; Order of Lamellirostral Swimmers: Mergansers; Ducks; Geese; Swans; Order of Lamellirostral Grallatores (Flamingoes); Order of Herons, Storks, Ibises, Etc.: Spoonbills, Ibises, and Storks; Heron Family; Order of Marsh-Dwellers: Cranes and Courlans; Rails; Gallinules, and Coots; Order of Shore Birds: Phalaropes; Avocets and Stilts; Snipes, Sandpipers, Etc.; Plovers; Surf-Birds and Turnstones; Oyster-Catchers; PART II: Order of Gallinaceous Birds: Bob-Whites and Quails; Grouse; Turkeys; Pheasants; Order of Pigeons and Doves; Order of Birds of Prey: Vultures; Eagles, Hawks, and Kites; Falcons; Caracaras; Ospreys; Owls; Order of Parrot-Like Birds; Order of Cuckoos, Etc.: Cuckoo Family; Trogons; Kingfishers; Order of Woodpeckers; Order of Goatsuckers, Swifts, Etc.: Goatsuckers; Swifts; Hummingbirds; Order of Perching Birds: Tyrant Flycatchers; Larks; Crows and Jays; Starlings; Icteridae; PART III: Order of Perching Birds, Continued: Finches; Tanagers; Swallows; Waxwings and Silky Flycatchers; Shrikes; Vireos; Warblers; Wagtails and Pipits; Dippers; Mimic Thrushes; Wrens; Nuthatches and Creepers; Titmice; Wren-Tits; Kinglets and Gnatcatchers; Thrushes; Color Keys; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.