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    The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
    The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
    The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
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    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. (Chester Albert) Reed

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.

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      The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. - Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bird Book, by Chester A. Reed

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      Title: The Bird Book

      Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred

      North American birds; also several hundred photographs of

      their nests and eggs

      Author: Chester A. Reed

      Release Date: September 15, 2009 [EBook #30000]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIRD BOOK ***

      Produced by David Edwards, Rénald Lévesque and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at

      http://www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from

      images generously made available by The Internet

      Archive/American Libraries.)

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      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.

      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

      BARN OWL.

      Page 6

      TOPOGRAPHY OF A BIRD.

      Page 7

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Page 9

      BALTIMORE ORIOLE.

      Page 16

      PIED-BILLED GREBE.

      Page 20

      NEST AND EGGS OF LOON.

      This nest is built on top of a Muskrat house.

      Page 21

      PUFFINS, AUKS and MURRES.

      Family ALCIDÆ

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