'Unabridged and unaltered republication of the work first published in 1950 as Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum bulletin 197.'

Excerpt from Life Histories of North American, Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and Their Allies: Order Passeriformes This is the eighteenth in a series of bulletins

Coots, bitterns, rails, crakes, cranes, herons, egrets, many others. 180 photographs.

This is the eighteenth in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds, with previous numbers issued