----------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Page numbers have been retained for easier references. As a result, pages are not concatenated; a few pages will end without punctuation, and the following page will start in lower case. Inconsistencies in the numbering sequence have been retained. The illustration descriptions have been regrouped at the end of each page. Where the description only states a color, it should be understood as an "egg color". ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 1 THE BIRD BOOK [Illustration: 003] Page 2 [Illustration: 004 PASSENGER OR WILD PIGEON Female. Male. Young.] Page 3 THE BIRD BOOK ILLUSTRATING IN NATURAL COLORS MORE THAN SEVEN HUNDRED NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS; ALSO SEVERAL HUNDRED PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEIR NESTS AND EGGS BY CHESTER A. REED, B. S. [Illustration 005: Printer's Mark.] GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1915 Page 4 _Copyright, 1914, by_ CHARLES K. REED _All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian._ Page 5 [Illustration 007: BARN OWL.] Page 6 [Illustration 008: TOPOGRAPHY OF A BIRD.] Page 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS Diving Birds. Order I. Pygopodes 10 Grebes. Family Colymbidæ 11 Loons. Family Gaviidæ 17 Auks, Murres and Puffins. Family Alcidæ 21 Long-winged Swimmers. Order II. Longipennes 35 Skuas and Jægers. Family Stercoraridæ 35 Gulls and Terns. Family Laridæ 38 Skimmers. Family Rynchopidæ 58 Tube-nosed Swimmers. Order III. Tubinares 59 Albatrosses. Family Diomedeidæ 59 Fulmars, Shearwaters and Petrels. Family Procellariidæ 61 Totipalmate Swimmers. Order IV. Steganopodes 72 Tropic Birds. Family Phæthontidæ 72 Gannets. Family Sulidæ 74 Darters. Family Anhingidæ 77 Cormorants. Family Phalacrocoracidæ 78 Pelicans. Family Pelecanidæ 83 Man-o'-War Birds. Family Fregatidæ 86 Lamellirostral Swimmers. Order V. Anseres 87 Ducks, Geese and Swans. Family Anatidæ 87 Lamellirostral Grallatores. Order VI. Odontoglossæ 115 Flamingoes. Family Phœnicopteridæ 115