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Title: Wild Birds in City Parks
Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily
for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago

Author: Herbert Eugene Walter
Alice Hall Walter

Release Date: July 9, 2010 [EBook #33125]

Language: English

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Wild Birds in City Parks

Being hints on identifying 145 birds,
prepared primarily for the spring
migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago

BY
Herbert Eugene Walter
AND
Alice Hall Walter

_REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
WITH CHART AND KEY_

Chicago
A. W. Mumford & Company, Publishers
378 Wabash Avenue
1906

Copyright 1901, 1902 and 1904
by Alice Hall Walter

Note to Third Edition.

With the continued success of this little booklet the authors have been
led to revise and enlarge the present issue in the hope that it will
prove more helpful and complete to those beginning the outdoor study of
birds.

The new features of this edition are the addition of forty-five
birds--the majority of which are shore and water birds--and a simple
field key. The number of each bird as given in the check-list of the
American Ornithologist's Union has also been inserted after its
scientific name as an aid in referring to larger bird-books. The subject
matter has been carefully rewritten and the order of the birds rearranged
in accordance with data covering observations during the last seven
years, as well as the charts which show the relati