By FRANK M. CHAPMAN, Curator of Ornithology in the American Museum of Natural History HANDBOOK OF BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA Third edition. With introductory chapters on the study of Ornithology; how to identify birds and how to collect and preserve birds, their nests and eggs. 20 full-page plates and 150 cuts in the text. […]

The Bird Book – Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. GREBES. Family COLYMBIDÆ Grebes are birds having a ducklike body, but with pointed bills. Their feet, too, are unlike those of the Ducks, each toe having its separate web, and having […]