The Bird BookHeath, 1901 - 281 pages |
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25 cents 50 cents ANCIENT MURRELET barn bill bird's blackbird body Bonaparte's gull bones Book breast brown called coast color cormorants cow-bird cuckoo dark diving ducks eaves eaves-swallow eggs eyes feathers feeding feet fish flock flycatchers foot fulmars gannet grebe green grosbeak ground gulls habits hawk head heron insects kind legs light live look loon male martin migrate mountain nearly nest never night North northern northern shrike notice observe pelican perhaps petrels pine grosbeak purple martin robin ruffed grouse S. S. McClure sandpipers seen sharp-shinned hawk shrike side snow sometimes sooty grouse sparrows species SPOON-BILLED SANDPIPER spring stroke strong summer surface swallows swim tail tell terns toes tree twigs usually vireo webbed Western gull white pelican wind wings winter woodpecker worm yellow young