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

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
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.
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.