The book of birds
Subtitle: the first work presenting in full color all the major species of the United States and Canada
By: edited by Gilbert Grosvenor...and Alexander Wetmore...with 950 color portraits by Major Alan Brooks...
Contributors: Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966.; Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-; Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946.
Publisher: National geographic society
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Subjects: Birds -- United States; Birds -- Canada
Notes: Map on lining papers.

"Second edition."--Foreword.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Diving birds, ocean-birds, swimmers, wading birds, wild fowl, birds of prey, game birds, shore birds, marsh dwellers, birds of the northern seas.; title: v. 2. Owls, goatsuckers, swifts, woodpeckers, flycatchers, crows, jays, blackbirds, orioles, chickadees, creepers, thrushes, swallows, tanagers, wrens, warblers, hummingbirds, finches, and sparrows.