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

								


Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

                        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 relative abundance of the
birds and the height of the migration in Lincoln Park.
We wish to thank our friends for their kind support in furthering our
efforts to enlarge the circle of admirers which the wild birds so richly
deserve.
"All nature is so full that that district produces the greatest variety
which is most examined."



                        --Gilbert White, 1768.

                                Preface.

The object of this little book is to furnish those who may be interested
in making the acquaintance of wild birds with a simple letter of
introduction to 145 birds, the majority of which are commonly seen during
the spring migration.
Complete descriptions have been avoided, in the belief that the student
should rely upon his own observation for the discovery of minor details.
The living bird is the one important fact which will make the brief
hints offered of value.
Anyone caring to make use of these hints may be assured that during the
migrations of the birds city dwellers have one of the keenest delights of
country life brought to their very doors, because many birds, migrating
largely at night, are attracted by the lights of the city and stop off in
their long journey to feed, so that a city park often contains a greater