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Title: What Bird is That?
A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United
States Arranged According to Season

Author: Frank M. Chapman

Illustrator: Edmund J. Sawyer

Release Date: March 23, 2010 [EBook #31751]

Language: English

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WHAT BIRD IS THAT?

By FRANK M. CHAPMAN

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BIRD-LOVER

HANDBOOK OF BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA

MY TROPICAL AIR CASTLE

BIRD-LIFE

CAMPS AND CRUISES OF AN ORNITHOLOGIST

COLOR KEY TO NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS

THE TRAVELS OF BIRDS

OUR WINTER BIRDS

WHAT BIRD IS THAT?

BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA

LIFE IN AN AIR CASTLE

[Illustration: 'MAP' OF A BIRD (Bluebird not quite life size).]

The student should learn to name the parts of a bird's plumage in order
that he may write, as well as understand, descriptions of a bird's color
and markings.

WHAT BIRD IS THAT?

A POCKET MUSEUM OF THE LAND BIRDS OF THE EASTERN UNITED STATES ARRANGED
ACCORDING TO SEASON

BY

FRANK M. CHAPMAN

CURATOR OF BIRDS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND EDITOR OF
"BIRD-LORE"

[Illustration]

WITH 301 BIRDS IN COLOR

BY

EDMUND J. SAWYER

D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY
INCORPORATED
NEW YORK LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY
D. APPLETON & COMPANY

_All rights reserved. This book, or parts
thereof, must not be reproduced in any
form without permission of the publishers._

PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

INTRODUCTION

AS Curator of the Department of Birds of the American Museum of Natural
History I have had exceptional facilities for the arrangement of
collectio