A DICTIONARY OF BIRDS =====================
Professor of Zoölogy and Comparative Anatomy, University of Cambridge
RICHARD LYDEKKER Author (with Sir W. H. FLOWER) of "An Introduction to the Study of Mammals," etc.
CHARLES S. ROY Professor in the University of Cambridge
ROBERT W. SHUFELDT Late U. S. Army. Author of "The Myology of the Raven," etc.
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_A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game and Water Birds..._ BY Mabel Osgood Wright
[Illustration] "_Attractive, interesting and helpful, and should be in the library of every lover of birds._"--_Science_ [Illustration]
Author of "Tommy-Anne and the Three Hearts," "Citizen Bird," "Four-footed Americans and their Kin."
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