Transcriber's Note: In Memory of Chris Curnow (1937-2023) the Project Manager at Distributed Proofreaders who selected this book, and more than 2200 others, to be preserved as free digital transcriptions by Project Gutenberg. * * * * * LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS Arthur Cleveland Bent LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS OF PREY. (20931-8, 20932-6) Two-volume LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN BLACKBIRDS, ORIOLES, TANAGERS, AND THEIR ALLIES. (21093-6) $7.95 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN CARDINALS, GROSBEAKS, BUNTINGS, TOWHEES, FINCHES, SPARROWS, AND THEIR ALLIES. (21979-8) Vol. 3, $7.95 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN GALLINACEOUS BIRDS. (21028-6) $8.00 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN JAYS, CROWS, AND TITMICE. (21222-X, 21223-8) Two-volume set $9.00 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MARSH BIRDS. (21082-0) $6.50 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN NUTHATCHES, WRENS, THRASHERS, AND THEIR ALLIES. (21088-X) $7.00 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN SHORE BIRDS. (20933-4, 20934-2) Two-volume set $14.00 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN THRUSHES, KINGLETS, AND THEIR ALLIES. (21086-3) $7.95 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN WAGTAILS, SHRIKES, VIREOS, AND THEIR ALLIES. (21085-5) $6.00 LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN WOODPECKERS. (21083-9) LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN WOOD WARBLERS. (21153-3, 21154-1) Two-volume set $13.90 _LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN WOODPECKERS_ _LIFE HISTORIES OF NORTH AMERICAN WOODPECKERS_ _by Arthur Cleveland Bent_ _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 1964, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1939 by the United States Government Printing Office, as Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum _Bulletin 174_. _Standard Book Number: 486-21083-9_ _Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-20879_ Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N. Y. 10014 ADVERTISEMENT