New/old bird books.

My wife found a bird book written in 1949.....It's a Golden Nature Guide, titled Birds. It mentions the Sparow Hawk ( American Kestrel) the Fish Hawk( now Osprey) the Red-shafted and Yellow-shafted Flicker (Northern and Gilded Flicker ?) Rufous-sided Towhee ( Spotted and Eastern Towhee) and the Pigeon Hawk ( Merlin ? ) It cost $1.25 when it first came out. My wife spent a whole .25 cents on it.

Thats neat adel.

I have a big hard cover bird book that I received for Christmas back in 1961 called "Birds of America"put out by Garden City Books in New York. The copyright date is 1917 by The University Society and the original paintings in the book are by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. It is quite detailed and really goes into text descriptions of distribution and detailed coloring and nest and eggs, etc. For instance, on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker it says under distribution--Southeastern US into the Mississippi valley to southern Indiana, southern Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Western Kentucky, etc. And you should read some of the names that were given back then!
Jim

I have got to get me a bird book....need to put that on my wish list too!