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Identifier: cu31924022565174 Title: Color key to North American birds Year: 1903 (1900s) Authors: Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912 Subjects: Birds Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page & company Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: owing pages both author and artist have had full access to the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, and they are also glad to acknowledge their indebtedness to William Brewster of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Robert Ridgway, Curator of Birds in the United States National Museum, and to C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the Biologic Survey, for the loan of specimens for description and illustration. SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES AMERICAN BIRDS OF NORTH The figures are all life-size, except as stated. WATER BIRDS. Order I. Grebes, Loons, and Auks. PYGOPODES.(3 families, 32 species, 3 subspecies.) Duck-like birds with the bill usually pointed, never wider than high, and without flutings, gutters, or serrations on its side; wings short, never with a bright colored patch or speculum; tail rudimentary, not noticeable; toes webbed or lobed. Color usually blackish above, white below; the throat often dark. The Grebes and Loons, when pursued, dive rather than fly; the Auks usually take wing.

Text Appearing After Image: PIED-BILLED GREBE. Family i. GREBES. PODICIPIDÆ. Toes four, with lobate webs; tipped with a broad nail; tail wanting

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