Federal Protection of American Birds, The Federal migratory bird regulations of the United States prohibit through out the United States the killing at any time of the following birds: Band-tailed pigeon; little brown sandhill and whooping cranes; wood duck, swans; curlews, willet, upland plover and all shore birds (except the black bellied and golden plovers, Wilson snipe or jacksnipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs) ; bobolinks, catbirds, chicka dees, cudcoos, flickers, fly-catchers, grosbealcs, hummingbirds, kinglets, martins, meadowlarks, nighthawks (or bull bats), nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers, tit mice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers and wrens, and all other perching birds that feed entirely or chiefly on insects.
Books about North American Under ORNITHOLOGY will be found a list of books to be consulted by the scientific student It is desirable here to mention a few boolcs of general interest and giving an account of the bird-life of special distncts. For birds of the world generally: Evans, (Birds) (New York 1900) Beebe, (The Bird' (ib. 1906) ; Knowlton and Ridgway, (Birds of the World' (ib. 1909). For the Eastern States; Chapman, (Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America) (New York 1912) ; Chapman, (Bird-life) (New York 1901) ; Steams and Cones, (New Eng land Bird-life) (Boston 1904); Eaton, (Birds of New York) (2 vols., col. plates, Albany 1910-12) ; and books by Thoreau, Torrey, Hoff man, Wright, Abbot, Knight, Parkhurst, Mer riam, Miller, Ekstorm, Sharpe and other popu lar writers. For the Mississippi Vail :
Wheaton, (Birds of Ohio) (Columbus 1891 ; i Dawson, (Birds of Ohio) (Columbus 1903 ; Butler, (Birds of Indiana) (Indianapolis 1890); Barrows, (Michigan Bird-life) (Lansing 1912); Cory, (Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin) (Chi cago 1910) ; Goss, (Bird.s of Kansas) (Topeka 1899) ; Cones, (Birds of the Northwest) (Washington 1874). For the western United States, besides many government documents: Coues, 'Birds of the Colorado Valley) (Wash ington 1878) ; Cooper, (Ornithology of Cali fornia' (Sacramento 1872); Bailey, 'Handbook of Birds of the Western United States) (Bos ton 1912) ; Keyser,