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1) Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part One
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1962. 372pp. 55 b&w plates on glossy paper. Dover reprint of 1927 edition, #142 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering phalaropes, avocet, stilt, woodcock, snipes, dowitchers, sandpipers, stints, dunlin, sanderling, godwits, redshank, yellowlegs. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover, lower front corner showing shelfwear.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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2) Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Parts One & Two
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1962. Two volumes. Dover reprint of 1927 edition. Vol. #1 422pp. 66 b&w plates on glossy paper. . Covering sandpipers, willets, tattlers, ruff, plovers, curlews, lapwings, dotterel, killdeer, surfbird, turnstones, oystercatchers and jacanas. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Part #2 422pp. 66 b&w plates on glossy paper.. Covering sandpipers, willets, tattlers, ruff, plovers, curlews, lapwings, dotterel, killdeer, surfbird, turnstones, oystercatchers and jacanas. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Matte paper covers. Wear along edges, inside tight. Volume 2 cover has two small. light stains.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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3) Life Histories of North American Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows and Allies (Part Three)
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1968. 652pp. color frontis. Dover reprint of 1968 edition, #237 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Part Three of three volumes, pp. 1249-1890. This volumes covers Zonotrochia through Emberiza: sparrows, longspurs and snow bunting. Bibliography and Index. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Laminated cover. Former owner's rubber stamp on flyleaf, light wear.. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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4) Life Histories of North American Birds of Prey, Volume Two
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1961. 476pp. 92 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1938 edition, #170 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Vol. 2 covering falcons, merlin, kestrels, caracaras and owls. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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5) Life Histories of North American Diving Birds
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1963. 254pp. 55 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1919 edition, #107 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Information on 36 species including grebes, loons, auklets, murres, murrelets, puffins, guillemots, dovekies and the extinct Great Auk. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover, remains of label top front corner. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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6) Life Histories of North American Gallinaceous Birds
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1963. 506pp. 93 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1932 edition, #162 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering partridge, quail, grouse, ptarmigan, prairie chicken, pheasant, turkey, pigeons and doves, and the extinct Heath hen. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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7) Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos and Their Allies
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1965. 472pp. b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1939 edition, #197 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Information on 49 species of wagtail, pipit, waxwings, shrikes, starling, vireos, silky flycatcher, honeycreeper. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover, 2" crease on front. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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8) Life Histories of North American Thrushes, Kinglets, and Their Allies
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1964. 460pp. 51 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1949 edition, #196 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covers 58 species including American Robin, bluebirds, thrushes, kinglets, gnatcatchers, wheatears, Kennicott's willow warbler, Middendorf's grasshopper-sparrow, Townsend's solitaire. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Light shelfwear. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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9) Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1963. 406pp. 98 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1926 edition, #135 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering flamingo, spoonbills, ibis, storks, bitterns, herons, egrets, rails, cranes, limpkin, crake, gallinules, coots. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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10) Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl, Part One
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1962. 254pp. 46 b&w plates on glossy paper. Dover reprint of 1923 edition, #126 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Vol. 1 covering mergansers, ducks, teal, gadwall, widgeon, shelduck, scaup. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Matte paper cover, owner's stamp on front cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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11) Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl, Part Two
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1962. 320pp. 60 b&w plates on glossy paper. Dover reprint of 1925 edition, #130 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Vol. 2 covering sea ducks, eiders, scoters, geese, brant, tree-ducks, swans. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Matte paper cover, owner's stamp on front cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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12) Life Histories of North American Woodpeckers
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1964. 348pp. 39 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1939 edition, #174 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Information on 64 species of woodpeckers, sapsuckers and flickers. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Very nice, nearly new copy. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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13) Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part Two
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1962. 422pp. 66 b&w plates on glossy paper. Dover reprint of 1927 edition, #146 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering sandpipers, willets, tattlers, ruff, plovers, curlews, lapwings, dotterel, killdeer, surfbird, turnstones, oystercatchers and jacanas. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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14) Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part One
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1962. 372pp. 55 b&w plates on glossy paper. Dover reprint of 1927 edition, #142 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering phalaropes, avocet, stilt, woodcock, snipes, dowitchers, sandpipers, stints, dunlin, sanderling, godwits, redshank, yellowlegs. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover.. Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo.. (more information)

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15) Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl, Parts One & Two
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1987. 576pp. 106 b&w plates. Two volumes bound as one. Dover reprint of 1923-25 editions, #126 and #130 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering ducks, mergansers, teal, gadwall, widgeon, scaup, eiders, scoters, geese, brant, tree-ducks, swans. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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16) Life Histories of North American Blackbirds, Orioles, Tangers and Allies
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1964. 562pp. 37 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1958 edition, #211 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Information on 62 species including English sparrows, bobolinks, meadowlarks, blackbirds, orioles, grackles, cowbirds, and tanagers. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Light shelfwear. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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17) Life Histories of North American Nuthatches, Wrens, Thrashers and their Allies
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1964. 486pp. 90 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1948 edition, #195 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering nuthatches, creepers, wren-tits, Dipper, wrens, mockingbirds and thrashers. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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18) Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Vol. One
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Publications, 1963. 426pp. 44 b&w plates. Volume 1. Dover reprint of 1953 edition, #203 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering 49 species and subspecies, incl. black-and-white, prothonotary, Swainson's, Townsend's Grace's, etc. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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19) Life Histories of North American Jays, Crows and Titmice, Volume Two
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1964. 288pp. 31 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1946 edition, #191 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Vol. 2 covering White-necked raven, crows, Pinyon jay, Clark's nutcracker, verdin, bushtit, chickadees and titmice. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. As New. 8vo.. (more information)

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20) Life Histories of North American Gulls and Terns
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1986. 350pp. 93 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1921 edition, #113 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Information on 50 species incl. skuas, jaegers, gulls, kittiwakes, terns, noddies and skimmers. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Light shelfwear. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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21) Life Histories of North American Gallinaceous Birds
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1963. 506pp. 93 b&w plates. Dover reprint of 1932 edition, #162 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Covering partridge, quail, grouse, ptarmigan, prairie chicken, pheasant, turkey, pigeons and doves, and the extinct Heath hen. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Laminated cover. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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22) Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part One & Two
Bent, Arthur Cleveland

New York: Dover Pub, 1962. Two volumes. Dover reprint of 1927 edition .Part #1. 372pp. 55 b&w plates on glossy paper. Covering phalaropes, avocet, stilt, woodcock, snipes, dowitchers, sandpipers, stints, dunlin, sanderling, godwits, redshank, yellowlegs. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. Part #2 422pp. 66 b&w plates on glossy paper.. Covering sandpipers, willets, tattlers, ruff, plovers, curlews, lapwings, dotterel, killdeer, surfbird, turnstones, oystercatchers and jacanas. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. Index, bibliography. . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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23) Life Histories of North American Cardinals, Grosbeaks, Buntings, Towhees, Finches, Sparrows and Allies (Part Three)
Bent, Arthur Cleveland; Austin, Oliver L. (eds.)

New York: Dover Pub, 1968. 652pp. color frontis. Dover reprint of 1968 edition, #237 of the Smithsonian Bulletin series. Part Three of three volumes, pp. 1249-1890. This volumes covers Zonotrochia through Emberiza: sparrows, longspurs and snow bunting. Bibliography and Index. Nesting habits, eggs, young, plumage, food, behavior, voice, courtship, field marks, molting, migratory habits, enemies, range, winter habits, distribution. The covers have a few creases, edgewear, and the laminate is starting to peel. Tiny water stain on first page. Text block and binding tight and square.. Trade Paperback. Good. 8vo.. (more information)

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