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Notes on Philippine Birds Collected by Governor W. Cameron Forbes

In the last decade former Governor-General W. Cameron Forbes has presented to the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy three large collections of Philippine birds. One of these was made in 1911, another in 1913, and the third and finest collection in 1921 while, with General Leonard Wood and Colonel Gordon Johnston, Mr. Forbes was on an […]

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Descriptions of Three New Birds from the Belgian Congo

The whole of the large collection of birds secured by the Congo Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during the years 1909 to 1915, under the leadership of Mr. Herbert Lang, has now arrived safely at the Museum. It is composed of material gathered all across the Belgian Congo, from Boma on the […]

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Color Key to North American Birds

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. […]

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Check-list of the Birds of Kansas

Kansas was one of the first states for which a detailed book on birds was published (N. S. Goss, “History of the Birds of Kansas,” Topeka, Kansas, 1891). Ornithological progress in Kansas in recent years, however, has not kept pace with work in many other states. As a result, knowledge of the birds of Kansas […]

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A Check-List of the Birds of Idaho

There is comparatively little literature dealing with the avifauna of Idaho, mostly because relatively few persons have done field work in the state. In the ornithological literature, there is nothing even comparable to a “state list,” so that when birds supposedly unreported previously from Idaho are found, it is difficult to know whether or not […]

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British Birds in their Haunts

This admirable work by the late Rev. C. A. Johns, F.L.S., which is now offered in a new form, has already proved the making of many a naturalist and it will be a delight and help to many more nature lovers who wish to determine a species without recourse to bulky scientific works. In editing […]

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The Breeding Birds of Kansas

The breeding avifauna of Kansas has received intermittent attention from zoologists for about 75 years. Summary statements, usually concerning all birds of the state, have been published by Goss (1891), Long (1940), Goodrich (1941), Tordoff (1956) and Johnston (1960). All but the first dealt with the breeding birds chiefly in passing, and none was concerned […]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – February, 1898

I suppose that a habit of minute observation of nature is one of the most difficult things to acquire, as it is one which is less generally pursued than any other study. In almost all departments of learning and investigation there have been numberless works published to illustrate them, and text books would fill the […]

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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography – January, 1898

We regret that a full monograph of this remarkable bird cannot be given in this number. It is the giant among Pigeons and has some characteristics, on account of its great size, not common to the family. Very little has been written about it, and it would be a real service to ornithology if some […]

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Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 6

In an early number of BIRDS we presented a picture of the common Bluebird, which has been much admired. The mountain Bluebird, whose beauty is thought to excel that of his cousin, is probably known to few of our readers who live east of the Rocky Mountain region, though he is a common winter sojourner […]

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