Birds of the West: An Account of the Lives and the Labors of Our Feathered Friends

143 pp. Maroon cloth boards, gilt titles, gilt bird decor on front board. Illustrated with color plates. Bird types include cuckoos, kingfishers, woodpeckers, goatsuckers, swifts, hummingbirds, flycatchers, larks, crows and jays, blackbirds and orioles, sparrows, finches, buntings, grosbeaks, swallows, waxwings, shrikes, warblers, mockingbirds, wrens, chickadees and nuthatches, kinglets, thrushes, grebes, loons, gulls and terns, pelicans, ducks, geese and swans, herons and bitterns, cranes, coots and rails, phalarope, snipe and sandpipers, avocet, plovers, grouse and quails, doves and pigeons, vultures, hawks and eagles, owls.