DOVER BOOKS ON BIRDS AUDUBON'S BIRDS OF AMERICA COLORING BOOK, John James Audubon. (23049-X) $1.50 ROSEATE SPOONBILL, Robert Porter Allen. (21566-0) $2.50 BIRD STUDY, Andrew J. Berger. (22699-9) $4.00 BIRD SONG AND BIRD BEHAVIOR, Donald J. Borror. (22779-0) Record and manual $3.50 COMMON BIRD SONGS, Donald J. Borror. (21829-5) Record and manual $4.00 SONGS OF EASTERN BIRDS, Donald J. Borror. (22378-7) Record and album $3.50 SONGS OF WESTERN BIRDS, Donald J. Borror. (22765-0) Record and album $3.50 BIRD OF THE NEW YORK AREA, John Bull. (23222-0) $6.00 WHAT BIRD IS THIS?, Henry H. Collins, Jr. (21490-7) $2.00 HAWKS, OWLS AND WILDLIFE, John J. Craighead and Frank C. Craighead, Jr. (22123-7) $5.00 CRUICKSHANK'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF BIRDS OF AMERICA, Allan D. Cruickshank. (23497-5) $6.00 1001 QUESTIONS ANSWERED ABOUT BIRDS, Allan Cruickshank and Helen Cruickshank. (23315-4) $3.50 BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST, Ira N. Gabrielson and Stanley G. Jewett. (22346-9) $7.95 BIRDS OF THE SOUTH, Charlotte Hilton Green. (21234-3) $3.50 EXTINCT AND VANISHING BIRDS OF THE WORLD, James C. Greenway, Jr. (21869-4) $5.00 BIRD MIGRATION, Donald R. Griffin. (20529-0) $2.75 A GUIDE TO BIRD WATCHING, Joseph J. Hickey. (21596-2) $3.00 NORTH AMERICAN BIRD EGGS, Chester A. Reed. (21361-7) $5.00 BIRD STUDIES AT OLD CAPE MAY, Witmer Stone. (21386-2, 21387-0) Two-volume set $9.00 AMERICAN BIRD ENGRAVINGS FROM "AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY," Alexander Wilson. (23195-X) $6.00 _Life Histories of_ North American Shore Birds _Life Histories of_ North American Shore Birds BY ARTHUR CLEVELAND BENT IN TWO PARTS PART I DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. NEW YORK Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario. Published in the United Kingdom by Constable and Company, Ltd., 10 Orange Street, London WC 2. This Dover edition, first published in 1962, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published by the United States Government Printing Office. Part I was originally published in 1927 as Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum _Bulletin 142_; Part II was originally published in 1929 as Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum _Bulletin 146_. _International Standard Book Number: 0-486-20933-4_ _Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-51562_